HAVE GERMAN WILL TRAVEL Bierhalle

HAVE GERMAN WILL TRAVEL Bierhalle WO KANN MAN IN MUNCHEN ESSEN UND TRINKEN? HOFBRAUHAUS the Hofbrauhaus, were converted into large beer halls, restaurants, and entertainment centers with large, cavernous meeting rooms for weddings, concerts, and plays. In the period after World War One, the beer halls of Munich became swept up in the chaotic politics of the period. In the period just before World War One, Vladimir Lenin lived in Munich and reportedly visited the Hofbrauhaus on a regular basis. In 1919, the Munich Communist government set up headquarters in the famous beer hall, and in 1920 Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists held their first meeting in the Festsaal, the Festival Room, on the third floor. The Hofbrauhaus in Munich was one of the beer halls used by the Nazi Party to declare policies and hold functions. On February 24, 1920, Adolf Hitler proclaimed the twenty-five theses of the National Socialist program at the Hofbrauhaus, which reconstituted the German Workers' Party as the National 2 Socialist German Workers' Party, known as the Nazi Party. [IJ[ l Hundreds of tourists visit these sites, including the Hofbrauhaus in Munich every year. One author claims that some of the first violent attacks 3 on Jews took place at the Hofbrauhaus. l l While it is true that some of Hitler's earliest oratorical attacks on Jews took place from the rostrum of the famous beer hall, there is no evidence that direct physical attacks on Jews took place in the Hofbrauhaus. l4l Hitler's experiences with the Hofbrauhaus were limited to political events and the commemorations; the infamous "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923 took place in the Bi.irgerbraukeller beer hall, which used to stand on the east side ofthe city. Since Hitler did not drink alcohol, eat red meat, or smoke, the beer hall was not his scene. His favorite restaurant in Munich was an Italian restaurant, Osteria Bavaria (now Osteria Italiana), near Munich's famed Ludwig-Maximillians University. Before he turned to politics, one of Hitler's watercolors was of the Hofbrauhaus (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2011/04/a_thumbnail_his.php) _l5l Of course, since it is over 400 years old, the Hofbrauhaus was also visited several times by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John F. Kennedy, and the American author Thomas Wolfe, but these famous visitors, or the vast 400 plus years ofHofbrauhaus history, are rarely mentioned by the tour guides_C4J Munich: H ofbrauhaus & History - Beer, The Gasth~ culture carried to extreme can be found Culture, & Politics by J effrey S. Gaab in Mun ich's Hofbrauhaus, the 6,000-capacity beer hall (Peter Lang, 2006) explores the most founded 400 years ago by Duke Wilhelm IV and now popular city in Germany via the histo administered by the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. ry of its Hofbrauhaus and oth er beer h alls to provide a fasc inating history of The Hofbrauhaus: Estafullshed.in • .: Munich. As Gaab notes, the city's slo 1589, the world's most.famous beer·:· i gan i s "a cosmopolitan city with a hall seats 41000 and is the city's, •.-·.;, · h eart," and "the heart of that city still rargest per'm'anent tourist attraction. :·• beats in the Hofbrauhaus am Platzl." The singing, food and peer give it tti~} Okt~bertest feeling. • · Gaab t races more than eight cen turies of the history of Munich, w hich will mark its 850th anniversary in 2008, and the more than four centuries of the history of its famous Hofbrauhaus, which will mark its 420th anniversary in 2009. Gaab notes that "It is impossi ble to understand the history of Munich, as well as the city's continuing popularity, without discussing its beer culture." He also discusses the opening of HB halls in Tokyo,Japan; Las Vegas, "Nevada; and Newport, Kentucky. Aside from conveying an understanding of Munich 's his tory, Gaab explains h ow the Hofbrauhaus has become "a symbol of Bavarian culture throughout the world." In so doing, h e successfully shows how both help us understand German history and culture. .

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