Does anyone know the address in Berlin of the former Hippel Cafe, where the Young Hegelians (or ‘The Free’) used to meet and carouse all night – Marx and Engels among them for a while in the late 1830s?
(Engels’s own sketch of a night at the cafe).
29 October, 2011
Address of the former Hippel Cafe?
Posted by stalinsmoustache under drinking, Engels, Marx, smoking | Tags: Hippel Cafe |[4] Comments
30 October, 2011 at 4:57 am
According to this, it was somewhere on the Friedrichstraße.
30 October, 2011 at 7:54 am
Thanks Graham. I am seeking out lesser-known sites of ‘world-historical importance’ for daily explorations around Berlin…
30 October, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Who’s that gloomy fellow on the right?
30 October, 2011 at 1:13 pm
The illustration appears in the second canto of Engels’s entertaining poem, ‘The Insolently Threatened Yet Miraculously Rescued Bible’ – http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1842/cantos/ch02.htm. Oneof many illustrations in probably the most entertaining volume of MECW – vol 2. The names at the bottom are: Ruge, Buhl, Nauwerck, Bauer, Wigand, Edgar [Bauer], Stirner, Meyen, stranger, Köppen the Lieutenant. The squirrel in the upper left corner is a caricature of the Prussian Minister Eichhorn. So it would appear to be Karl Friedrich Köppen (1808-63), a lifelong friend of Marx. Son of a pastor, high-school teacher, journalist and historian – and pisspot.