Book presentation "Wiener Melange - Stars & ihre Lieblingscafés. Eine Hommage."

"Vienna is simply unimaginable without the famous, globally unique coffee house culture - which has been an intangible UNESCO World Heritage Site since November 2011. In my previous book "I love Vienna - Die 111 Lieblingsplätze der Stars" I asked prominent personalities to tell me their individual oases of well-being and favorite places in the federal capital, I would like to pay tribute to Vienna's coffee houses in this sequel and create a monument to them, Andrea Buday and yours truly asked 66 celebrities from a wide variety of genres to take us to their favorite café and tell us about their coffee house habits - peppered with personal anecdotes and memories - and of course whether they like melange, singles or espresso macchiato," says Clemens Trischler, who is bringing his fourth book onto the market with this work.

"When I came to Vienna four decades ago to study, my first trip took me to Café Hawelka. There, among all the many people, Josefine Hawelka was busy buzzing around, looking for a seat or greeting people. That I was sitting on a chair in front of Perhaps Peter Ustinov, Helmut Qualtinger, Hans Moser or Oskar Werner had once sat down for me. It was love at first sight - and this love now encompasses me. Almost all Viennese coffee houses are islands of bliss," says Andrea Buday.

In "Wiener Melange - Stars & ihre Lieblingscafés. Eine Hommage", published by echomedia buchverlag, the focus is on the legendary Viennese coffee house culture with its over 2,200 member companies. 66 prominent personalities from a wide variety of genres - portrayed by top photographer Monika Fellner - present their favorite cafés and coffee house habits and reveal one or two personal anecdotes about them. The spectrum ranges from traditional, famous coffee houses to hip and modern cafés, each with a QR code indicating the location of the business.

The presentation, moderated by the "Zeit im Bild 1" duo Nadja Bernhard and Tarek Leitner, was enthusiastically attended by: actress Mariella Ahrens, who traveled from Berlin especially for the event, the cabaret artists Dieter Chmelar, Christoph Fälbl, Alf Poier and Herbert Steinböck, star- Astrologer Gerda Rogers, the actors Konstanze Breitebner, Julia Cencig, Markus Freistätter, Aaron Karl, Lilian Klebow, Michael Steinocher, Katharina Stemberger and Adriana Zartl, ORF presenter Christoph Feurstein, publisher and former Opera Ball organizer Desirée Treichl-Stürgkh, the PULS4 presenters Julia Furdea, Jakob Glanzner and Johanna Setzer, the former Mister Austria Alexander Höfler, presenter Eser Akbaba, Eurovision Song Contest participant 2024 Kaleen, restaurateur Ossi Schellmann, the former ÖFB head coach Irene Fuhrmann, the singers Monika Ballwein and Laura Bilgeri, "Alle Achtung" frontman Christian Stani, Education Minister Martin Polaschek, the hit radio Ö3 presenters Sylvia Graf, Thomas Kamenar and Claudia Stöckl, the former Federal Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat and author Manfred Rebhandl.