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There is a close relationship between the major literary and art cafes and the development of the newspaper industry.

Published: 2026-02-25 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/02/25, In Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century, people also followed the Vienna model and set up a literary cafe in the William Memorial Parish. Since the 1880s, the Little Black Pig Cafe has become one of the favorite gathering places for artists and writers. This is where people met Monk and Strindberg in 1889. In the years before World War I, cypress was most frequented by writers and artists.

In Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century, people also followed the Vienna model and set up a literary cafe in the William Memorial Parish. In the 1880s, the Little Black Pig Cafe has become one of the favorite gathering places for artists and writers. This is where people met Monk and Strindberg in 1889. In the years before World War I, the most popular Berlin cafes for writers and artists were the Cafe Rome and the Cafe of the West, which was jokingly called the "Great dreamer" because the people there were engrossed in endless philosophical and artistic debates.

At that time, there was a close relationship between the major literary and art cafes and the development of the newspaper industry, which was perhaps the most obvious in the examples of some cafes in Central Europe. In Vienna, Budapest and Prague, it was soon established that readers could choose the usually large number of daily (or weekly) newspapers, not only local dailies and national newspapers, but also real and typical European international newspapers. The habit still exists in some cafes in central Vienna, and even today, customers at Glenstair, Herrenhoff and Central Cafe certainly can't expect more than their customers in the 1890s. Many literary works are reminiscent of these cafes

As a typical modern communication and entertainment space, in European capitals and other metropolises, large central cafes have become a symbol of a new urban way of life within a few years. at the same time, it also shows the symptoms of various crises related to the changes of social relations and private life. At that time, cafes increasingly replaced upper-class or civic salons, which have been the main places for cultural and artistic gatherings since the mid-17th century. Salon is a space associated with an individual (a lady, an important figure in the political or literary world) or a family, which is basically private, and this nature is reflected in its special form, that is, its operation must follow the necessary etiquette. Even people who can enter the salon are in danger of being excluded, and the reasons for being excluded are sometimes negligible: during the period we are concerned about, the novelist Marcel Proust gave a fairly extensive explanation of the durability of "salon culture". There is no doubt that he also provided the most accurate analysis of the salon mechanism.