Trotsky, Stalin, & Hitler walked into a Coffee House : Viennese Coffee House History

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  • @MLaserHistory
    @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +624

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Extra Information & Sometimes Corrections if Needed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    0:00 I apologize ahead of time for all the mispronunciations in this video.
    1:10 Coffee drinking and selling can be dated in Venice as far back as 1616 but the first commercial coffee house didn't open until 1645 or 1647.
    1:10 Ok "Europe" here is a bit misleading, there where coffee houses on the European side of the Ottoman Empire specially in Constantinople.
    1:13 The coffee house at Oxford wasn't technically the "first coffee house" in England because it wasn't a corporate institution but a university one.
    1:15 There was coffee drinking in Marseilles in 1644 but the first permanent coffee house wasn't established until later.
    2:26 35, Rittner, The Thinking Space. (full bibliography with sources is in my script available for free on my Patreon)
    3:06 36, Rittner, The Thinking Space.
    3:54 Both also frequented Café Frauenhuber.
    3:59 I meant Johann Strauss but showed a picture of Richard Strauss, my bad.
    5:20 40, Rittner, The Thinking Space.
    7:38 Lenin didn't meet Stalin in Krakow for the first time they have meat before.
    8:21 The quote says Mr. Bronstein not Trotsky as that's the name Trotsky was known under at the time.
    8:35 Although Hitler preferred the working class cafes on Schwegerstrasse 25, called Cafe Kubata.
    8:57 Even though Freud was known to go to Cafe Central he preferred the cafes previously mentioned.
    9:15 didn't have time to explain the "Young Vienna" movement or the writers involved with it, here is a wiki link if you're interested- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Vienna
    9:15 The group of writers part of the "Young Vienna" movement first meat at Café Griensteidl and when it was closed moved to Cafe Central.
    9:44 Ok so Bahr is often considered to be Jewish by many sources (hence why I put him in the video) but he technically wasn't. He was actually quite a big anti-Semite in his youth but in his later years he changed and became very heavily involved with the Jewish culture and community in Vienna. He wrote in opposition to antisemitism, married a Jewish actres, and hung out in many Jewish circles in the Viennese Coffee Houses. Due to his campaign against racial antisemitism he is very often mentioned in a Jewish context hence why many people think he's Jewish.
    9:54 174, Shapira, Style and Seduction.
    10:37 I meant to say decompressed not decomposed, had a bit of a brain fart sorry.
    Video scripts with all my sources are available for free on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/mlaser

  • @Bhatakti_Hawas
    @Bhatakti_Hawas Před 3 lety +5181

    Imagine Hitler & Stalin bumping into one another, and then both apologising to the other

    • @angeladetommasi2459
      @angeladetommasi2459 Před 3 lety +1396

      Imagine the face of Hitler when in the 1920s, while drinking coffee he looks in a newspaper who talks about the new leader of the Soviet Union and sees the face of Stalin and the caption "The new soviet leader", and spits the coffee on the newspaper and says: "Isn't he the same georgian communist dude who i met in Central Café?!"
      And then Stalin's face when in 1933 he reads the newspaper and he sees Hitler with the caption "The new cancellor of Germany" and is like:"In the name of Marx, isn't he the same austrian artist who i saw in café central in 1913!?"

    • @jtgd
      @jtgd Před 3 lety +485

      @@angeladetommasi2459 and the coffee house having nazis and communists accidentally meeting at the same time in 1933

    • @pwp8737
      @pwp8737 Před 3 lety +109

      are they both Canadians?

    • @angeladetommasi2459
      @angeladetommasi2459 Před 3 lety +339

      @@pwp8737 immagine if everyone in WWII was Canadian...
      -"Sorry sir for gassing you."
      -"Sorry for wasting your time and the resources of your nation to gas me"

    • @pwp8737
      @pwp8737 Před 3 lety +208

      @@angeladetommasi2459 if everyone in WW2 was Canadian, instead of war they would have appointed a Royal Commission to look into the issues, and by the time the report was out people would have forgotten what the fuss was about.

  • @plmd1857
    @plmd1857 Před 3 lety +4738

    That sounds like the start of a really bad joke.

  • @DanielGalimidi
    @DanielGalimidi Před 3 lety +1326

    Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Tito, Kafka, Freud and Hitler all walk into a coffee house in Vienna.
    There are no survivors.

    • @Man-of-Steel674
      @Man-of-Steel674 Před 2 lety +61

      I mean we all die eventually.

    • @klausx6265
      @klausx6265 Před 2 lety +95

      Waiting patiently until the Assassin's Creed series gets there.

    • @vojislavbelic896
      @vojislavbelic896 Před 2 lety +3

      if only

    • @erenliebert4576
      @erenliebert4576 Před 2 lety +29

      @@klausx6265 with all the magic and shit going on right now and the constant push of "message" there I am afraid they'll turn this potentially great setup into some weird fantasy crap

    • @1d10tcannotmakeusername
      @1d10tcannotmakeusername Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@erenliebert4576 Sci-Fi > fantasy

  • @keller1808
    @keller1808 Před 3 lety +1584

    This is like, the biggest crossover in history, endgame cannot even be compared to this

    • @marko-gj1uj
      @marko-gj1uj Před 2 lety +16

      Based and historypilled

    • @6idangle
      @6idangle Před 2 lety

      For real but not surprising high level fascists and socialists were all of the connected upper middle to lower nobility

    • @mercilessaphrodite3052
      @mercilessaphrodite3052 Před 2 lety +14

      Boxer rebellion?

    • @zildmania
      @zildmania Před 2 lety +2

      Castilian war?

    • @AG26498
      @AG26498 Před rokem +6

      Often times history is crazier then any made up story.

  • @Dhjaru
    @Dhjaru Před 3 lety +2606

    Its always cool to see how and that the world was pretty connected before the internet.

    • @alexanderrasmussen9473
      @alexanderrasmussen9473 Před 3 lety +14

      Uhm what?

    • @yougoslavia
      @yougoslavia Před 3 lety +81

      @@alexanderrasmussen9473 What is your question?

    • @Xorthane
      @Xorthane Před 3 lety +64

      Between the middle class and wealthy more so
      Now very poor people can communicate with anybody on social media

    • @skskskssksksksks7404
      @skskskssksksksks7404 Před 3 lety +9

      Believe me in Vienna you‘ll ALWAYS meet people you know :)

    • @diarmuidbuckley6638
      @diarmuidbuckley6638 Před 3 lety +2

      You might like to know about Mersenne who wrote and distributed letters to the Science scholars of Europe

  • @TrafficPartyHatTest
    @TrafficPartyHatTest Před 3 lety +1556

    So there's a chance that tito, hitler, stalin, and trotsky all had coffee together?
    Edit: And freud and franz ferdinand as people told me.

    • @GameandComedy
      @GameandComedy Před 3 lety +59

      Yup

    • @masontrudgeon8085
      @masontrudgeon8085 Před 3 lety +155

      At least at the same place at the same time but probably not knowing the other and at different tables

    • @elcompagenito3250
      @elcompagenito3250 Před 3 lety +144

      Tito and stalin just having a casual talk just makes me laugh.

    • @hankbarcelona7314
      @hankbarcelona7314 Před 3 lety +81

      Imagine how much violence could've been prevented if they had all become friends.

    • @aproppaknoife5078
      @aproppaknoife5078 Před 3 lety +66

      While posseble i doubt that Tito went to this coffe house.
      He was a wery poor worker and i doubt that he would go to cafe' central as it was (while not a high class place) it was close to the center of town. Tito lived in the industrial district.

  • @rosenbaum6976
    @rosenbaum6976 Před 3 lety +1041

    Imagine Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, And Hitler being on the same cafe bumping to each other and a few years later they know that all of them will be an enemy with one and another

    • @berserk6855
      @berserk6855 Před 3 lety +63

      Tito wouldnt be enemy with Trotsky,they are both socialist, sure they wouldnt agree on implementing the same kind of socialism but at worst they would be neutral with each other

    • @slyasleep
      @slyasleep Před 2 lety +2

      yeah that‘s pretty much the premise of the clip.

    • @user-ij7fy3fn4n
      @user-ij7fy3fn4n Před 2 lety +10

      I want to see a movie like this

    • @sele5129
      @sele5129 Před 2 lety

      @@berserk6855 they were are all socialists...

    • @aggebojkalos6518
      @aggebojkalos6518 Před 2 lety +5

      @masterdolphin 35 Socialism is a very broad term. For example, communism is a version of socialism.

  • @isaacpeachey8609
    @isaacpeachey8609 Před 3 lety +1008

    Well, if the Austrian coffee house scene makes a comeback, I’ll start building my bomb shelter for WWIII

    • @ivowehsely9131
      @ivowehsely9131 Před 3 lety +89

      It never quite died. I live in Vienna and a lot of people still go to the traditional coffehouses

    • @hamidrezarahimi6651
      @hamidrezarahimi6651 Před 3 lety +37

      I've moved to Vienna a decade ago. Guess what!? The first thing that got my attention was how coffee houses are full of people and still rolling. But the difference is, you don't see often the type of people you heard their names in this Video!

    • @sydneyb9340
      @sydneyb9340 Před 2 lety +9

      Cafe Central is still open and always busy! Even in Linz, Austria we have a traditional Viennese coffeehouse. Not to mention-the coffee in Austria is incredible !

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 Před 2 lety +38

      Hopefully Putin, Zelenskyy, and Biden weren't frequenting the same café at roughly the same time period...

    • @darthball2723
      @darthball2723 Před 2 lety +2

      Make it a nuclear bunker

  • @ldblokland463
    @ldblokland463 Před 3 lety +777

    Hearing you refer to "Coffeeshops" makes me chuckle as a Dutch person.

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +283

      Yes Hitler, Trotsky and Stalin all got stoned together.

    • @thetigerking2613
      @thetigerking2613 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MLaserHistory That would be very funny.

    • @basedkaiser5352
      @basedkaiser5352 Před 3 lety +6

      @@MLaserHistory Nah only Mussolini got stoned.

  • @thatguywhosayshi7021
    @thatguywhosayshi7021 Před rokem +179

    Came for learning about Stalin, Trosky and Hitler being in the same coffee house, stayed for the interesting history of Austrian coffee culture.

  • @JBGARINGAN
    @JBGARINGAN Před 3 lety +384

    These coffeehouses sound like THE places to be, you could've met so many interesting characters in them and people of high classes to low classes met and mingled. These days the only interesting person you'll find in a damn Starbucks is that dude with the guitar and wearing a black leather jacket, you know you've seen that guy we've all seen him.

    • @JBGARINGAN
      @JBGARINGAN Před 3 lety +45

      And he isn't that intriguing, he's just got that mood about him that makes you want to ask him wtf is up with him

    • @typiclyjohny5114
      @typiclyjohny5114 Před 3 lety +26

      come to Vienna, its still ppretty interesting

    • @taylorcosley3804
      @taylorcosley3804 Před 3 lety +31

      @@typiclyjohny5114 No...come to brazil

    • @youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
      @youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 Před 2 lety

      @@typiclyjohny5114 Nein danke. Nur noch Molukken und Linke.

    • @Max-is4qu
      @Max-is4qu Před 2 lety +4

      That dude pretends to be interesting

  • @ANTREU96
    @ANTREU96 Před 3 lety +254

    As a viennese i must unfortunately say that many historic café houses in the 1at District are now just tourist traps. I once got kicked out because I was just enjoying my paper instead of purchasing more.
    There are of course still great cafes here but they are few gems

    • @francisdec1615
      @francisdec1615 Před 2 lety +19

      I heard that the personnel at the once famous Café Grecco in Rome, where Germans living in Rome used to meet, is also rude to customers. It's a shame.

    • @youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
      @youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 Před 2 lety +8

      Rent in the Altstadt is extreme, there's no room (not to mention people waiting) for people drinking one coffee and reading newspaper for half an hour +.
      The whole free (but gross) coffee in the US and sit as a long as you want isn't a thing in Europe. Order something or gtfo. Then again while waiters here also rely on tips, they won't starve if they have days of few or none tips either..

    • @Mann_mit_Kaffee
      @Mann_mit_Kaffee Před 2 lety +22

      @@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 "sit as a long as you want isn't a thing in Europe" is not true. Maybe it's the case in vienna. because of the rude waiter mentality, but even in bigger cities like rome or berlin you can sit and drink (maybe unless the cafe is overflowing)

    • @youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692
      @youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 Před 2 lety +6

      @@Mann_mit_Kaffee Which is precisely what I said, as part of my initial comment. Those Coffee places in the 1st district ARE overflowing with people, especially the historic ones. As they attract tourists, hippsters etc..
      So that's hardly rude, to tell you to order something or to move on, when you order 1 Verlängerter or Melange, and then sit there reading your newspaper for 30+ minutes.
      Sure, it's a thing in smaller cafe or less popular ones.
      But even there they won't eventually tolerate you, if you keep doing that as a regular.
      Ist ja nicht so wie in USA, wo man ständig mit der Kanne von dem Grind"kaffee" daherkommt, und man sitzen kann. Auch kleine Cafe haben mieten zu bezahlen, und wenn man das einreissen lässt bei Einem, dann fangen auch Andere damit an, v.A. wenn man W-Lan anbietet.
      Vielleicht in nem Dorfcafe, wo jeder jeden kennt.

    • @TitaniusAnglesmith
      @TitaniusAnglesmith Před 2 lety +10

      @@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 It is the opposite. In America you're supposed to get in and get out. I've never experienced a café here in Europe, even in Wien, that kicks one out. I and a friend spent 3 hours in a café by the natural history museum, only bought 2 coffees and pastries.

  • @diamondinthesky4771
    @diamondinthesky4771 Před 3 lety +256

    I'm just imagining it like
    *Stalin is invading Berlin*
    Hitler - "Wait! Time out! Coffee time!"
    *Hitler and Stalin both walk into the nearest coffee shop and share a few cups*
    Stalin - "So, how's the wife?"
    Hitler - "Planning to be with me until the end, yours?"
    Stalin - "Dead, remember?"
    Hitler - "Ah yes, yes..."
    *They sip*

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +51

      WTF? ... also kind of funny.

    • @diamondinthesky4771
      @diamondinthesky4771 Před 3 lety +27

      @@MLaserHistory My humor can be kind of dark sometimes....also didn't want it to be too long lol

    • @ZaHandle
      @ZaHandle Před 3 lety +2

      ok back to killing each other

    • @aneggselentfellow5607
      @aneggselentfellow5607 Před 2 lety

      There's something dark yet funny about Germans and Russians ruthlessly slaughtering each other while Hitler and Stalin just call and/or visit each other over coffee.

    • @Jartran72
      @Jartran72 Před 2 lety

      Hitler had no wife, as he officially claimed to be married to germany. Howewer he had multiple mistresses, most famous one Eva Braun ofcourse.

  • @ballsligmer5572
    @ballsligmer5572 Před 3 lety +120

    this sounds like the internet, but with a couple weeks of ping

    • @amina-pr8xt
      @amina-pr8xt Před 3 lety

      Nice comment..

    • @McDonaldsCalifornia
      @McDonaldsCalifornia Před rokem +1

      The small entrance fee of technically just having to buy a coffee also reminds me of the business model of modern social media sites.
      Make the barriers of access as low as possible and profit off the activity on your network.

    • @thistime3889
      @thistime3889 Před rokem

      ​@@McDonaldsCalifornia Although it wasn't a business model back then, but more a social phenomenon of that time in Vienna. Otherwise it would have been the same in other countries, that had similar coffeeshops.

  • @DrumToTheBassWoop
    @DrumToTheBassWoop Před 2 lety +59

    The Four pillars of democracy:
    The Executive
    The Legislative
    The Judicial
    *The Coffehouse*

    • @sohambandyopadhyayyoutube
      @sohambandyopadhyayyoutube Před rokem +2

      The four horsemen of Chaos:
      Hitler
      Stalin
      Churchill
      My Brother( Because of total destruction of my house within 20 minutes)

  • @Dave_Sisson
    @Dave_Sisson Před 3 lety +211

    Here in Melbourne we had many huge "Coffee Palaces" built in the late 1800's. Some of these ornate buildings were 6 floors high and over 100 metres long. They were a reaction against excessive drinking, but unlike the hard line Americans who wanted to ban alcohol, most of the builders of these Coffee Palaces just wanted to provide a comfortable, civilised alternative to hotels. Most of them were demolished between the 1930s and 1970s, the huge Federal Coffee Palace (later Hotel) was an especially tragic loss, but one of the larger coffee palaces survived as the Windsor Hotel which is over the street from the Parliament of Victoria.

    • @randomsmuck312
      @randomsmuck312 Před 3 lety +3

      What's the reason for their demolition?

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson Před 3 lety +11

      @@randomsmuck312 Most of those grand hotels and coffee palaces in Melbourne (as well as the 10 and 12 floor high 1880s high rise office buildings) had a lot of small rooms that could not be opened up into larger rooms, so they were a bit dark and claustrophobic. After they were demolished in the 1960s and 1970s, many of the sites had 50 floor high office blocks built on them.
      From the late 1970s the few remaining grand hotels and older high rise office buildings had preservation orders put on them, but there were very few left by then.

    • @MichaelCasey1988
      @MichaelCasey1988 Před rokem +1

      Is it historically protected now? Many countries it seems when through this age of mindless demolition from the 1950's - 70's of gorgeous ornate buildings

  • @hanskuke3433
    @hanskuke3433 Před 3 lety +419

    Its insanly weird that you only have 90k subs. You make amazing content, and I hope you know that. I am a big fan! Your content includes educational facts, great humor and lesser known fun facts.

    • @fz7788
      @fz7788 Před 3 lety +19

      Even weirded when he got shouted out by one of the big boys

    • @Sofus.
      @Sofus. Před 3 lety +4

      One should not, underestimate the sense of security by familiarity and repetition for a certain section of the population. Where accent unfamiliar word choices and topics can be off-putting.

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +18

      @@Sofus. Sire, are you implying that I have "unfamiliar word choices" and a
      čudný "accent"? I am absolutely appalled by this, it's, it's, unabridgedly lamentable!

    • @Sofus.
      @Sofus. Před 3 lety +1

      @@MLaserHistory Sir I am deeply shocked and amazed that the Latverian Telegraph is at the disposal to the general public. I'm fascinated and interested in your culture, but would point out not everyone is that open minded.

    • @subscribeorsus6862
      @subscribeorsus6862 Před 3 lety

      @@MLaserHistory I subbed

  • @m33LLS
    @m33LLS Před 3 lety +147

    It reminds me of the 'bierkellers' in Munich where for instance in Hofbrauhaus am Platzl, Lenin and Hitler also regurarily visited.

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +46

      Also Mozart and the one and only M. Laser in 2019 :)

  • @markozabic2255
    @markozabic2255 Před 3 lety +78

    now I have to watch this video in Vienna at a coffeehouse

  • @jerryj.2346
    @jerryj.2346 Před 3 lety +234

    The coffee house culture sounds like the internet. If someone creates a digital ballroom, the world won't be the same.

    • @ludovitkrajcik4747
      @ludovitkrajcik4747 Před 3 lety +10

      A digital dancing hey this is fun...

    • @m_uz1244
      @m_uz1244 Před 3 lety +28

      The Internet is the modern equivalent. It's just the newest method used by the pensive classes to socialise and exchange ideas, although on a much bigger scale seeing as the pensive classes have expanded enormously over the last 50 years.

    • @vammukittu
      @vammukittu Před 3 lety +3

      Fortnite and gta online already tried it lol

    • @crazycookfyrelomenot
      @crazycookfyrelomenot Před 3 lety +9

      @@m_uz1244 you can see this happen real time on discord and even reddit or 4chan today. Who knows, maybe some of those guys i talk politics with on discord will be future world leaders, anything is possible especially with mass unrest coming up in 10-20 years

    • @m_uz1244
      @m_uz1244 Před 3 lety +9

      @@crazycookfyrelomenot Yeah it's somewhat fascinating but also a little infuriating. I only use Reddit for porn now because anything else on the website is just a shitty intellectual pissing contest with made up rules that change constantly.

  • @nirfz
    @nirfz Před 3 lety +103

    The only thing i would want to add: viennese coffe houses over time accumulated over 30 different ways of serving coffe. (you can still order a Melange, Kapuziner, Fiaker, Einspänner, Zarenkaffe, Verlängerter...) So what chains like starbucks way later started was common in those coffe houses for a long time already. But they served in porcellain or glas depending on what speciality you ordered instead of a plastic or cardboard cup with a sharpie name on it...

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +29

      Yeah, for example the tradition of serving a glass of water with your cup of coffee was started in Vienna.

    • @sodinc
      @sodinc Před 3 lety +6

      It sounds so cool that I regret that coffe is borderline disgusting for my taste :(
      Also there was similarly well developed culture of tea-houses (чайная, chaynaya) in my country, that died during the last century - and it is a tragedy.

    • @nirfz
      @nirfz Před 3 lety +1

      @@sodinc Interesting! Thanks for mentioning! I would have thought they were still a thing.
      (But then again the newest thing i actuallly remember reading, that mentioned a tea house in russia, was from 1917...)
      🤫 Actually i don't drink coffee either. I like the smell, and the taste only if it is mildened down as a part of chocolade, icecream and cakes.

    • @sodinc
      @sodinc Před 3 lety +4

      @@nirfz there weren`t any private bussineses of this type in USSR, and government and factories supported only canteens and few restaurants for diplomats in big cities, so tradition died for 70 years at least.
      Nowdays there is a huge number of different food and drink places, but evrything is remade from ground zero, few places keep soviet style, some are trying to recreate old traditions, but majority just copies foreign examples.

    • @nirfz
      @nirfz Před 3 lety

      @@sodinc Sad thing! The path towards copying or being part of a chain for new businesses is something that threatens the existens of coffee houses too. Young people often are more interested in brands they see in Film, Videos, or used by Moviestars.

  • @crazymangoz9583
    @crazymangoz9583 Před 3 lety +50

    You really just clickbaited me into watching a video about coffee. But I’m not complaining! Never have I so much wanted to go back in time just to go visit a little coffee shop. Seeing such a wide array of characters, some even historical, and having newspapers from every corner of the world sounds so great. Excellent video, you earned a subscriber.

  • @therealspeedwagon1451
    @therealspeedwagon1451 Před 9 měsíci +3

    I like to imagine everyone who wasn’t a historical figure in a coffee shop was a time traveler. After all if you ever want to alter history by killing Hitler or Stalin, this is the place.

    • @gabork5055
      @gabork5055 Před 5 měsíci

      Plot twist:
      -We're all time travelling assassins sent by the Reptoids and Anunnaki to kill people responsible for WW3.
      -Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  • @aneesh2115
    @aneesh2115 Před 3 lety +85

    I wish my city had such a coffee house tradition. Probably more like a tea house culture..

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +10

      Yeah I never read anywhere about tea houses being very prominent in any city. My understanding was that unlike coffee people could make tea themselves so it was more of a personal thing or an exclusive club thing. Although maybe somewhere I don't know.

    • @TrafficPartyHatTest
      @TrafficPartyHatTest Před 3 lety +5

      British?

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +8

      @@TrafficPartyHatTest Never heard of prominent "tea houses" or "tea shops" in England but I have heard of coffee ones like the afomentioned Loyds Coffee House.

    • @hankbarcelona7314
      @hankbarcelona7314 Před 3 lety +1

      I think tea houses are/were pretty common in China, not sure if the culture of political discussion is the same though

    • @NapoleonBonaparde
      @NapoleonBonaparde Před 3 lety +3

      Come to Croatia people here spend more time drinking coffee than they are spending time at work..there are certainly downside to this coffee culture.

  • @ryanrusch3976
    @ryanrusch3976 Před 3 lety +23

    the Coffee culture of Europe is one of the most interesting things I've ever learned about and no better place was this crystalized than in Vienna.

  • @mf997
    @mf997 Před 3 lety +121

    Cafe culture might have died out in Vienna, but it's going strong in Croatia :D if you ever visit Zagreb or any other larger city after the pandemic, you can bet you'll see hundreds of packed cafes of all shapes and sizes.
    Great channel btw, not a lot of people talk about Slavic and central European history. Keep it up!

    • @nirfz
      @nirfz Před 3 lety +15

      it hasn't died in vienna. (at least it hadn't before 2020 ;-) )

    • @lukasbosina301
      @lukasbosina301 Před 3 lety +12

      It is not as big as in those days but coffee house culture in Vienna is still great. And it is a world of its own. I recommend to everyone visiting Vienna to go and have a coffee (or any other beverage they serve) in one of them.

  • @TheIvasyl
    @TheIvasyl Před 2 lety +62

    There's actually a Ukrainian play called 'Viennese Coffee' whene the main characters are Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky and Freud, all of them are trying to woo a hot barista gils, who happens to be Ukrainian.

    • @tasse0599
      @tasse0599 Před 2 lety +2

      What's the original title?

    • @TheIvasyl
      @TheIvasyl Před 2 lety +7

      @@tasse0599 Віденська кава

    • @TheIvasyl
      @TheIvasyl Před 2 lety +5

      ​ @Tasse05 The authors name is Дмитро Корчинський.

    • @bpeper1365
      @bpeper1365 Před rokem +1

      This could be popular considering current events

    • @dobriyranok7
      @dobriyranok7 Před rokem

      І, якщо не помиляюсь, вже відзнято худ.фільм за цією п'єсою.

  • @silesiaball9505
    @silesiaball9505 Před 3 lety +60

    Great video. I am very fascinated how Austria-Hungary connected all these different people, united under one emperor.

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +8

      It was truly a very weird country.

    • @mg4361
      @mg4361 Před 3 lety +17

      It was a relic of the feudal age that somehow managed to make it through the age of romantic nationalism and into the 20th century.

    • @scrumptiousbee1032
      @scrumptiousbee1032 Před 3 lety +6

      @@mg4361 they almost made it to the modern era as the Danubian Federation, but collapsed near the finish line. So sad.

    • @mg4361
      @mg4361 Před 3 lety +15

      @@scrumptiousbee1032 As someone who comes from the area formerly belonging to the empire, I don't find it so sad at all. They weren't horrible, but their time was up. Essentially everything after 1848 was borrowed time, with the central autocratic government playing one faction against the other in order to stem the growing centrifugal forces tearing the whole thing apart. It wasn't just the ethnoreligious stuff, the economic development was incredibly uneven and generally lower then for other european countries of that time. The stuff that AH was about was protecting the Habsburg dynasty, the Catholic faith and the social status quo; the stuff that their subjects cared about were language, ethnicity, personal advancment and economic development. The state just wasn't useful for a majority of its citizens anymore.

    • @MsPaintMr
      @MsPaintMr Před rokem +1

      @@mg4361 People will say this and then sing praises of institutions like the EU 🙄

  • @czechmeoutbabe1997
    @czechmeoutbabe1997 Před 3 lety +92

    When you pronounced “Bedřich Smetana” correctly I almost spat out my coffee. Pozdrav z Čech :)

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +21

      Some people would argue I said more of a ž not a ř but I'll take my victory and run with it :D

    • @qzg7857
      @qzg7857 Před 3 lety +3

      As a Pole i need to ask does smetana mean the same in Czech and Polish?

    • @czechmeoutbabe1997
      @czechmeoutbabe1997 Před 3 lety +2

      @@qzg7857 in czech it means "cream", which is pretty close to the polish "śmietanka" if I remember correctly

    • @fl0atpvnk
      @fl0atpvnk Před 2 lety +1

      @@czechmeoutbabe1997 so his name is Mr. Cream?

    • @finnyliverpool89
      @finnyliverpool89 Před 2 lety +3

      Bob Cream, yep

  • @costelc4077
    @costelc4077 Před 3 lety +15

    Late 19th century - early 20th century Vienna must have been quite an experience

  • @TheFiddle101
    @TheFiddle101 Před 2 lety +5

    Lovely presentation. Brought back memories of several days in Vienna, sampling the coffee houses and visiting stupendous museums.

  • @erinmac4750
    @erinmac4750 Před 2 lety +1

    What a information extravaganza! A joy to watch! I love when history is presented this way.
    Hope you and yours are safe today. Mahalo 💜✌️😎

  • @colinjohnston5734
    @colinjohnston5734 Před 2 lety +2

    This video and the time taken to put it together is greatly appreciated!

  • @mcfronny
    @mcfronny Před 3 lety +29

    7:31 for the trotsky, stalin, & hitler story

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +13

      It's not about the destination it's about the stuff you learn along the way :)

    • @heartofgold5724
      @heartofgold5724 Před 3 lety +7

      @@MLaserHistory we want to the funy mustache men

  • @user-ft9ul5ul5v
    @user-ft9ul5ul5v Před rokem +3

    It reminds me of an interesting fact - during Cold War Soviet satellites created a human traffic heatmap for major military installations in the US. There was a "red" hole in the center of the garden inside of the Pentagon building. Soviets thought that was an entrance to a secret bunker and designated this very coordinate as a target for nuclear anti-bunker aviabombs. In 1990s it's revealed that it was a small cafe, and almost all Pentagon staff frequented it, that's why it was red on the heatmap.

  • @hishamhilal8332
    @hishamhilal8332 Před 2 lety +2

    Beautiful video man. Very informative and I love the topic, not much is talked about this usually.

  • @patavinity1262
    @patavinity1262 Před 6 dny +1

    "...enthusiastically started using the new coffee houses as a meeting place for simple discord"

  • @JDB-channel
    @JDB-channel Před 3 lety

    Fascinating video! Your channel is a fine addition to my subscription collection

  • @Pietro-Smusi
    @Pietro-Smusi Před 3 lety +27

    This was way more interesting than I tought

  • @richardmcgowan1651
    @richardmcgowan1651 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Coffee Houses were the internet forums of those days. If you travelled around a lot you would always ask for a good Coffee House nearby.

  • @AshtonAU
    @AshtonAU Před 3 lety +3

    Great video. You deserve more subscribers!

  • @johannesmaximilian848
    @johannesmaximilian848 Před 3 lety +22

    Thank you for this magnificent video on an unequalled european institution and heritage! Every time I am in Vienna I marvel particularly at the most historic and most distinguished coffee houses like the Cafe Imperial and the Cafe Central, what splendid havens of everything good in life.

  • @elcompagenito3250
    @elcompagenito3250 Před 3 lety +37

    "Mein fuher, do you know the leader of russia?"
    Hitler: "yes, I saw him in a coffee shop in Vienna."

    • @deisk2707
      @deisk2707 Před 3 lety +15

      In 1933:
      "Stalin"
      "Yes?"
      "The man, elected as a Chancellor of Germany, are you aware of him?" *Shows electorial results with party leader's name on a graph bar
      "Wait, I remember this guy. But i cannot tell if he's the same man back from the coffee shop"
      1939:
      *Hitler shows "Pact Alliance?" Paper
      "Oh okay, I guess it's him"
      1941:
      "Oh you son of a bit-"

    • @quanghuyvo6112
      @quanghuyvo6112 Před 3 lety +1

      @@deisk2707 " the alliance " was a cold war propraganda that is a non aggression pact, the su have the same thing with the japanese even when fighting the german

    • @quanghuyvo6112
      @quanghuyvo6112 Před 2 lety

      @@elmascapo6588 so did turkey doesnt mean they are ally

    • @quanghuyvo6112
      @quanghuyvo6112 Před 2 lety

      @@elmascapo6588 all of them eastern europe it a battlefield post russian revolution with all the new country fight each all other to gain territory that inclue poland when it go to war with all of ot neighbor for land

    • @quanghuyvo6112
      @quanghuyvo6112 Před 2 lety

      @@elmascapo6588 it also doesnt justify the poles cooparating with the nazi to crack down the jews but politic is politic

  • @ernstschmidt4725
    @ernstschmidt4725 Před 2 lety +3

    5:17 as weird as it sound, when explained in that way more than anything the viennese cafe reminds me to the internet than any bar or coffeeshop now.

  • @easternwind4435
    @easternwind4435 Před 3 lety +10

    That's funny I did not hear a lot about those other coffee houses you've mentioned, some I didn't even know. Vienna and Budapest are the first places I think about when somebody says Coffee House.

  • @MrGuana141
    @MrGuana141 Před 3 lety +22

    8:28 "And what are you gonna do trotsky ? Lead a civil war and overthrow the Russiand Empire ?"

  • @lukasbosina301
    @lukasbosina301 Před 3 lety +5

    As someone who grew up in Vienna I enjoyed the video a lot and there was still a lot I could learn. And to the rest of the world: drop into a coffee house next time you come to Vienna!

  • @darklex5150
    @darklex5150 Před 2 lety +6

    Came here for the meeting of hitler, trotsky, and stalin.
    Stayed because of austrian coffe culture.
    Nice video.

  • @p7ytzxq
    @p7ytzxq Před 3 lety +18

    This video makes me wanna visit Vienna

  • @saidabachabergschdaigamuesli

    Discord is the modern Coffehouse

    • @sass174
      @sass174 Před 2 lety +1

      Future politicians left and right are shitposting on discord and arguing in youtube comments right now. And I think thats beautiful

  • @schnarfschnarf5886
    @schnarfschnarf5886 Před 2 lety

    Great video..I absolutely had no idea. Thank you

  • @CC-yx2rt
    @CC-yx2rt Před 3 lety +3

    These songs are such good choices for this video.

  • @Sorren-tb9fk
    @Sorren-tb9fk Před 2 lety +3

    So Viennese Coffee Houses was some kind of Reddit thread

  • @DerpyPossum
    @DerpyPossum Před 2 lety +2

    This oughta be the greatest “Friends” parody i’ve ever seen.

  • @Furioushunter
    @Furioushunter Před 3 lety

    Great work!!!

  • @lollertoaster
    @lollertoaster Před 2 lety +3

    Habsburg Empire is such a lost jewel. Imagine that everything that happens in Europe, happens in one city, the cultural capital of Europe. There is a lot of catching up we have to do after WWII and cold war.

  • @THEDAVILAK1
    @THEDAVILAK1 Před rokem

    Loved this video!
    Especially your French Pronounciation of neue Rundschau .
    Couldn‘t help but chuckle

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před rokem +1

      ehhh you know, can't win them all. in my defence, it totally looks like a french name.

    • @THEDAVILAK1
      @THEDAVILAK1 Před rokem

      @@MLaserHistory Nono don't worry! I can't expect someone who's first language isn't german to know that. PLUS I don't want to bite the hand that feeds me (videos) :)

  • @BernoldBear
    @BernoldBear Před rokem +1

    On the subject of smoking: In the 19th century, operators even artificially spread smoke in their coffee houses to show potential guests that there was a lot going on here

  • @mynameiszer0
    @mynameiszer0 Před 11 měsíci +1

    This was actually a really interesting video. Thanks for sharing all this info, coffee houses really do sound like magnificent places. It is a shame that the internet and a general culture of dying social relations is killing them. In my country, there are still a few 'local coffee houses' but the discussions in them is nowhere near the level that they used to have in cafés around the world.

  • @JenniferinIllinois
    @JenniferinIllinois Před 3 lety +12

    Vienna's coffee houses: serving Austrian hipsters since 1685. LOL!!!

  • @Abraxium
    @Abraxium Před 3 lety +1

    Wonderful video! I have known about this for some time, but I love seeing it in a video. If I ever rise to political prominence, know that I never visited a Viennese coffee house (but aspire to) but rather frequented Coffee Club da Galileo aswell as Caffé Vienna in Trento

  • @AhmetwithaT
    @AhmetwithaT Před 3 lety +11

    Sultan Murad IV of the Ottomans banned drinking of coffee and smoking of tobacco, blaming coffee houses for recent fires but the real reason behind the ban was the political nature of these establishments. Many revolts could be traced back to the conversations had in them. He wasn't the only Ottoman sultan to issue such a ban, and like all the others before and after him, his prohibition was also ineffective in stopping coffee houses.

    • @sarubet8725
      @sarubet8725 Před rokem

      Coffie was not banned. Alcohol was. (Ironic since Murat the IV was an alcohol enjoyer)

  • @thunksouce3342
    @thunksouce3342 Před rokem

    The way you said "Neue Rundschau" killed me man xD
    Good video though

  • @vuxigeck5281
    @vuxigeck5281 Před 2 lety

    That was... strangely beautiful. Amazing!

  • @muqsitjalal2225
    @muqsitjalal2225 Před 2 lety

    The background music is making me sleepy, so I will go and make coffee after watching this video. Lol:) Nice work I came here due to oversimplified

  • @atsekaleb7
    @atsekaleb7 Před 3 lety

    14 minute video for a single coffee shop. God bless you madman

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +2

      I mean I mentioned other coffee houses as well.

  • @charlescalthrop2535
    @charlescalthrop2535 Před 3 lety +3

    Anyone else think this would be a cool concept for an anime? Just having all these influential people chilling in a cafe in 18/19/20th century Vienna.

  • @chris7372
    @chris7372 Před 3 lety +2

    Oh nice a Stefan Zweig quote, I quite liked his autobiography even tho its rose coloured glasses all the way up to the max.

  • @hglundahl
    @hglundahl Před 2 lety

    Lovely! "I don't know. Nobody has ever dared smoke in my presence."

  • @SgtRocko
    @SgtRocko Před 9 měsíci

    Wonderful video! Wasn't Joseph Roth a known habitue of Viennese coffee houses? Also - when I was in the Titovi Pioniri in Jugoslavija, the coffee houses throughout the Republic ALWAYS had great coffee (of course) with šlag - because Tito was notorious for loving Kafee mit Schlach. When later I lived in Vienna I HAD to frequent them... my favourite admitted that they got their coffee from Bosnia (which explained why it was so good LOL). Thank you for this video!

  • @adrianaslund8605
    @adrianaslund8605 Před 2 lety +3

    I kind of want to bring back the coffee house. Or tea House. Some kind of stimulant herb and alot of intellectuals gathering at one place. And have the herb only be used in certain establishments. Like how in the case of the elysian mystery cult greeks would gather at a certain temple at a certain time of the year to drink a concoction laced with ergot (containing LSA) while simultaneously it would be illegal to take it home with you. Sounds pretty cool.

    • @brendenmccrudden5860
      @brendenmccrudden5860 Před 2 lety

      Kava bars are good modern equivalents in Florida, but there’ll be vapes and whatnot.

  • @yoshisuckstoes
    @yoshisuckstoes Před 2 lety

    ....saving this for my sitcom script

  • @otanakugaming3357
    @otanakugaming3357 Před 2 lety

    “Well, who were the frequent guests of your coffee shop?”
    “Just name anyone on the newspaper.”

  • @hugeiftrue4224
    @hugeiftrue4224 Před 2 lety

    Imagine hanging out all day long all the time with Freud snorting blow, huffing down durries and slamming coffees… when you could be doing the same thing with literally anyone else

  • @DulocGuardsman
    @DulocGuardsman Před rokem +1

    A crossover that we did not wanted but we need

  • @sirxander5420
    @sirxander5420 Před 3 lety +6

    I live in Vienna and when I went to Dublin I was really surprised about how many Starbuck's there were. The Viennese coffee house culture never died, you'll still find coffee houses everywhere, and many different people still visit them.

  • @MeinUnterkampf
    @MeinUnterkampf Před 2 lety +2

    Suddenly I have gained the urge to visit Vienna!

  • @kevinbergin2225
    @kevinbergin2225 Před rokem +1

    New drinking game: Each team you hear "coffeehouse" you chug a drink.

  • @SignedWhatever
    @SignedWhatever Před 3 lety +1

    Fantastic video!

  • @sam1503cd
    @sam1503cd Před rokem

    Good video

  • @mistereagle6445
    @mistereagle6445 Před 2 lety +3

    They were arguing about which team they would choose in the next hoi4 match💀

  • @slyasleep
    @slyasleep Před 2 lety +3

    If only they had stayed at the coffee house.

  • @greenbutter3190
    @greenbutter3190 Před 3 lety

    Stable video 👍

  • @lukas_2701
    @lukas_2701 Před 3 lety +4

    You got a sponsor! Congrats!

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +2

      Thanks, got to buy those Christmas presents with something :)

    • @SignedWhatever
      @SignedWhatever Před 3 lety +2

      @@MLaserHistory Thats awesome. You do a great job. Thanks for uploading!

  • @spiderlime
    @spiderlime Před 2 lety +1

    i wonder how many people think , upon seeing this presentation:"if only i could go back in time and poison them"...

  • @BaronVonMott
    @BaronVonMott Před rokem

    Honestly by the end I was half expecting him to say that H P Lovecraft had been there too 😂

  • @antonioklaic4839
    @antonioklaic4839 Před 3 lety +4

    This makes me want to live in the past and be a regular coffee house attender.

    • @frozenyogurth
      @frozenyogurth Před rokem

      I mean, Coffeehouse culture in Vienna is still going strong. Cafés are my most favourite place to people watch, you hear some really interesting conversations of many different people.

  • @selkie698
    @selkie698 Před rokem

    I like that ur using the music from the dutch theme park efteling

  • @ahmadtarek7763
    @ahmadtarek7763 Před 2 lety +2

    It's insane that a shit ton of ww2 important characters existed at the same time in the same city.
    It's actually more insane than the endgame crossover, which isn't even real.

  • @tomfrank9447
    @tomfrank9447 Před rokem

    Of course it makes me proud when someone, especially a foreigner, makes a video about the coffee house culture in my hometown. It's also all wonderfully researched, but I ignominiously miss a mention of Cafe Hawelka, which even a Viennese songwriter, Georg Danzer, was worth a song "Jö schau..." and there are only a few Viennese who don't know the text by heart . The Hawelka, which was only taken over by Leopold Hawelka in 1939, was and still is an institution where the cultural scene met. Well-known painters (e.g. Ernst Fuchs, Friedensreich Hundertwasser), writers (e.g. Heimito von Doderer, Günter Grass, Friedrich Thorberg), actors (e.g. Oskar Werner), cabaret artists (e.g. Helmut Qualtinger) frequented the Hawelka. Many a painter, who was still unknown at the time, paid his bill with pictures that old Hawelka then exhibited in his cafe... until the person in question became a celebrity. For your defence, I have to admit... the video would really be too long!

  • @osirisgem
    @osirisgem Před 2 lety +3

    I adore history and have a soft spot for even obviously bad historians if for no other reason I know better and I can't hate anyone who is actually trying. That being said I have for a very long time considered your channel to be far and away the best in terms of accuracy, historical detail and clear non episodic accounts that rely on factual corroborated data when recounting historical events, persons, nations and governing bodies. It's true there are more popular and more entertaining channels that I do really love however, when I want to be entertained I watch them, when I want to learn I watch you. Thanks again and you don't get paid nearly enough for the work you do and that is a god damn tragedy.

  • @hititmanify
    @hititmanify Před 2 lety

    Dont apologize my friend. Ur videos and ur pronounciation are perfection.

  • @dominiksimor9082
    @dominiksimor9082 Před 3 lety

    Super video :) would you consider making slovak subtitles ?

  • @unclvinny
    @unclvinny Před 2 lety

    Going back a little further… JS Bach didn’t write very much secular music, but one I can tell you to check out is the Coffee Cantata, where a young woman drives her father (who wants to marry her off) crazy with her coffee obsession. There are some very funny lines in there!

  • @BucketBoatable
    @BucketBoatable Před 11 měsíci

    Bruh, before smartphones, people were so bored, they went to stand in a room and watch people play billiard.

  • @delay2045
    @delay2045 Před 2 lety +1

    The greatest crossover doesn't exi-

  • @adamthomas7505
    @adamthomas7505 Před 2 lety +2

    History's greatest crossover

  • @charlottewalnut3118
    @charlottewalnut3118 Před 2 lety

    Imagine how interesting it would be if that coffeehouse got blown up right when they were all in there

  • @RedStarRogue
    @RedStarRogue Před rokem

    This totally reminds me of the Louvre Cafe in Prague, which Kafka and Einstein used to frequent. Dined there myself in 2012.