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Article: Cafe kultur: the coffeehouses of Vienna.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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As coffeehouses are springing up all over Britain and the US, even in small Midwestern towns, a look at the most famous originators of that culture gains new interest: the Viennese coffeehouse represents indeed a high culture of its own, particularly adapted to the worldview and lifestyle of that city. Passing through Vienna on his way into exile, the playwright Bertolt Brecht went to the Care de l'Europe and observed: 'As every newspaper reader knows, this city is built around a few coffeehouses where the population sits together and reads papers.' Brecht singled out neither the imperial Habsburg palace, the grand 'Ring', the treelined avenue that surrounds the old part of ...
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