Café des Westens

The Café des Westens, on No.18/19 Kurfürstendamm in Berlin, was a coffeehouse which operated from 1898 to 1915, and became famous as a meeting place for turn of the century artists. It was known colloquially as Café Größenwahn; the German Größenwahn meaning "delusions of grandeur".

The café opened in 1893 on the ground floor of a newly erected lavish residential building in Charlottenburg, part of the Wilhelmine Ring in the fashionable "New West" area next to the German capital. Then named Kleines Café , it was one of the first coffee houses on Kurfürstendamm boulevard and soon became a popular venue for a literary circle around Maximilian Bern. Renamed Café des Westens in 1898, with new cuisine, it gained attractiveness even for artists from the historic city centre in present-day Berlin-Mitte. In 1904, the establishment was again enlarged, with a billiard room on the first floor.

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