Contents

• Introduction: The Vienna Coffeehouse in Society and Culture
• Hermann Bahr
• The Overcoming of Naturalism
• Red Trees
• Karl Kraus
• The Demolished Literature
• An Evening with the Bulgarian Royal Couple
• S. M.
• The Question of Crete
• Don Munz
• From the Wastepaper Basket
• Rabbits with Jewish Dialect
• Peter Altenberg - - How I Came to Be
• How I Became a "Writer"
• In Munich
• Little Things
• Perfection
• Peter Altenberg as Collector
• Picture Postcards
• Picture Postcards
• The Hotel Room
• Decorating a Room
• Checkpoint
• So Should It Always Be
• Reserved Table
• Reserved Table
• The Reserved Table
• Rules for My Reserved Table
• Episode - - Perfume
• Domestic Servants
• Late-Summer Afternoon
• The Twins
• Dialogue
• Nineteen
• Theater Evening
• Japanese Paper, Vegetable Fiber
• Dogs
• Flirt
• Venice
• The Primitive
• From Prodromos
• The Kidney
• Vienna’s Hygiene
• Letter to Grete Wiesenthal, the Dancer
• Letter to the Dancer
• Mental Hospital
• Felix Salten
• Peter Altenberg
• The Vienna Route
• Pleasures of the Night
• Handwriting and Work
• Egon Friedell
• The Panama Hat
• Vienna the "Theater City"
• The Austrian Spirit
• The Cabaret
• The Story of the Fledermaus
• Cabaret Fledermaus
• Haresu
• How I Came to Haresu
• When I Was a Stage Director
• What Is a Theatrical Tour?
• The Practical Art of Living
• Alfred Polgar
• The Viennese Feuilleton
• Leonhard Has an Experience
• Small World
• Posters
• Theater Evening 1915
• Vienna, December 1918
• In the Telephone Booth
• Beethoven Masks
• Looking Down on the Orchestra
• Good Eating
• Theory of the Cafe Central
• Girls
• Rigoletto
• Interview
• I Can’t Read Novels
• The Small Form
• The Loos Case
• It Doesn’t Pay to Die
• Meeting
• In a Tight Spot
• The Suit
• The Female Table Companion
• Marionette Theater - - Higher Mathematics
• Anton Kuh
• Spirit of the Age in the Literary Cafe
• Melange = Milk + Coffee
• Vienna without Newspapers
• The Awful Jokesters
• Zarathustra’s Ape (Karl Kraus)
• The Second on the Right
• The Bohemian
• The Arrest of Adolf Loos
• Central and Herrenhof
• The Dog Who Became a Coffeehouse Regular
• Lenin and Demel
• Adventures of a Monocle
• From Physiognomics: Observations
• Cabaret Nonsense
• The World of the Variety Theater
• Diary of a Hotel Guest
• Sanatorium Diary
• Edmund Wengraf
• Biographical Sketch
• Coffeehouse and Literature