Press Release (PDF) - Margarete Restaurant Frankfurt
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<strong>Press</strong> information <br />
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<strong>Margarete</strong> and the Window to the City inauguration March 1st. <br />
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(<strong>Frankfurt</strong>, February 28th, 2012) <br />
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Starting March 1, 2012 the restaurant <strong>Margarete</strong> will open its doors in the new „House of the book“ <br />
in the middle of the city of <strong>Frankfurt</strong> at the Braubachstrasse. Approximately 11.000 square foot will <br />
be available to the guests. The concept of the restaurant is divided in several parts, finding the cafe <br />
and bar in the front area with 70 seats available in‐and outside. Here, coffee specialties, sodas and all <br />
kind of drinks, homemade cakes, a variety of breakfast specialties and little bistro dishes will be <br />
served. The restaurant in the back area seats 80 indoor and additional 80 seats available outdoors in <br />
the courtyard. Here lunch and dinner will be served with an alternating menu. Lunch is a variety of <br />
different dishes with a short period of preparation. In the evening within a decelerate atmosphere <br />
full‐course menus as well as single dishes are available. Always providing high quality products, the <br />
price range varies for a single dish to an exclusive full‐course menu. <br />
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As defined by the <strong>Margarete</strong>, cooking means to interpret local‐traditional cooking with market‐fresh <br />
products and develop these furthermore. <br />
The chefs attach importance to top‐quality products which continuously will be used according to the <br />
seasons. The menus are created from two executive chefs, on equal terms. Both have gained <br />
intensive experience in high‐class restaurants, i.e. Villa Metzler. Mr. Bolz has been awarded by the <br />
Gourmet Guide Gault Millau as the pastry chef of the year 2010. After that he has been sous‐chef at <br />
a well‐respected restaurant Bean & Beluga in Dresden. Luka Spanjol‐Simunelic worked at the <br />
<strong>Frankfurt</strong> restaurants Cyrano, Tigerpalast and Villa Merton all of which are famous restaurants in <br />
<strong>Frankfurt</strong>. <strong>Margarete</strong> is open from 7.30 am until late night. <br />
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The gastronomic infrastructure is completed with a supplement of a multifunctional exhibition and <br />
event room the „Window to the city“. It’s program focuses on the literary aspects of the <strong>Margarete</strong> <br />
where upon the unique architectural and logistic constellation sets a course. <br />
Immediately seen through the panorama windows, one enters the exhibition room through the <br />
restaurant. It is open for visitors from early morning to night according to the opening hours of the <br />
restaurant. The concept aims for a non academic intermediation of the history of literature and <br />
publishing. Although founded in a cooperation pro bono public at the Goethe‐University and thence <br />
looked after by Wolfgang Schopf and Vera Kern. <br />
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In the first exhibition you will find writings of Thomas Meinecke and Alexander Kluge as well as <br />
<strong>Frankfurt</strong> liest ein Buch 2012, milestone birthdays of Ror Wolf, F.K. Waechter and Horst Bingel. <br />
At the same time the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels will embody several cultural <br />
initiatives. Already announced are programs for the book fair, the German Book Price and the <br />
Stiftung Buchkunst – Foundation Bookart. <br />
Within the coherence of MAKING HISTORY von RAY 2012 photographie projects, the exhibition from <br />
the works of the New York fotographer Frank Schramm show that the Window to the City is open for <br />
all kind of arts and cultural institutions of <strong>Frankfurt</strong>. <br />
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The eponym of the restaurant is the Viennese architect <strong>Margarete</strong> Schütte‐Lihotzky. <br />
As the first woman, she studied at the Viennese University of applied arts and has been appointed by <br />
Ernst May into the municipal work service of the city of <strong>Frankfurt</strong> in the year 1926. There Schütte‐<br />
Lihotzky created the original „<strong>Frankfurt</strong> Kitchen“ in the year 1920 whichever has been taken as a <br />
prototype for all built‐in kitchens. While she created this kitchen she brought forth her wishes for an <br />
optimized and economized working process. The design of the functionality, the clarity and the <br />
consequent accomplishment accumulated centralized creative tendencies. <br />
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The reminiscence to <strong>Margarete</strong> Schütte‐Lihotzky refers to the understanding of <strong>Margarete</strong> which you <br />
will find everywhere in the design of the restaurant. Schütte‐Lihotzky advocated a functional <br />
separation of living and working rooms to separate the domestic working areas from the relaxation, <br />
entertaining and eating zones. <strong>Margarete</strong> reframes this approach by incorporating parts into the <br />
guest area. Some seats allow overseeing the open kitchen to enjoy the full range of our exquisite <br />
regional products. The citizens of <strong>Frankfurt</strong>, the visitors of the city, the cultural environment, the <br />
township and the financial sector are supposed to receive a conjointly “<strong>Frankfurt</strong> Kitchen”. A place to <br />
get together for private events, business meetings, relaxed gatherings and for interesting talks. <br />
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Located in the heart of the city, <strong>Margarete</strong> is nearby main sightseeing places like the Paulskirche, the <br />
Römer or the Dom, next to the historical city of <strong>Frankfurt</strong>. <strong>Margarete</strong> is domiciled in the “House of <br />
Books”, located in the same house as the “Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels” (German <br />
Publishers and Bookselling Cooperation) and the Buchmesse <strong>Frankfurt</strong> (bookfair <strong>Frankfurt</strong>). This <br />
combination will create an exchanging atmosphere between the various companies and the <br />
<strong>Frankfurt</strong> public. <br />
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Schöbel und Horn <br />
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After a long‐term teamwork Simon Horn and Raffaela Schöbel founded the Gastronomie <br />
Betriebsgesellschaft Schöbel & Horn mbH a cooperation functioning as the umbrella of the <br />
<strong>Margarete</strong>. <br />
Under this umbrella the first project “96 COMMISSARY “ has been founded past summer. <br />
In cooperation with Ata Macias and Club Michel (both are a well known club and restaurant in <br />
<strong>Frankfurt</strong>) a 43.055 square foot space has been entertained and serviced with food and drinks for 96 <br />
days in a time limited period within a special exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art of <strong>Frankfurt</strong> <br />
“20 Jahre Gegenwart” (20 years of the present). Due to the overwhelming success the 96 <br />
COMMISSARY has been extended for several more weeks. <br />
Simon Horn has been accountable for the restaurant “Blumen” in the <strong>Frankfurt</strong>er Nordend for more <br />
than six years. Seating 18 persons the most, the “Blumen” is located on historical ground and serves <br />
top‐notch menus and legendary bar evenings. Simon Horn is well established in the <strong>Frankfurt</strong> <br />
gastronomy scenery. The restaurant has been awarded several times for best food and great service. <br />
Additionally Simon Horn and Raffaela Schöbel founded the very successful catering service “Blumen <br />
unterwegs” (Blumen on the way). A catering service of its own kind, approaching the holistic <br />
oriented basis of the food. In the past the team around Simon Horn and Raffaela Schöbel have <br />
managed several major projects like creating from scratch a restaurant for six weeks in the Historic <br />
Villa Metzler, the entertainment of thousands of fair visitors for a trade show as well as numerous <br />
activities and performances of high class gastronomy for business meetings and private events. <br />
Now then: The Window to the City. <br />
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Simon Horn <br />
Simon Horn, born 1983 in <strong>Frankfurt</strong> am Main. After his vocational training to a chef, he opened his <br />
first restaurant the “Nordbar” in the year 2002 for a fixed term period of three years. In 2005 he <br />
opened the restaurant Blumen as well as the catering service and event agency Blumen unterwegs. <br />
2008 his first cook‐ and reading book Kochen mit Alkohol (Cooking with alcohol) has been published <br />
which was awarded with the Gourmand Award. In 2009 Simon Horn develops, designs and creates <br />
the multi‐format concept SEVEN SWANS. <br />
Another enterprise of Simon Horn is “Silberling Rohpressung” where he consults and supports <br />
gastronomy establishments with his innovative ideas and concepts. <br />
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Raffaela Schöbel <br />
Raffaela Schöbel is born in <strong>Frankfurt</strong> am Main. Already during her academic studies at the university <br />
of <strong>Frankfurt</strong> where she studied sociology, cultural anthropology and European ethnology, she <br />
discovers her love for the restaurant business. <br />
Since 2009 she is responsible for the operational business of the catering “Blumen unterwegs”. <br />
Her main goal is to create a warm atmosphere for all guests, combined with great food, in which a <br />
getting together with a great communication is developed. <br />
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Curator “Window to the city” <br />
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Wolfgang Schopf <br />
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Wolfgang Schopf is an academic of literary studies, editor and curator. He is in charge for the literary <br />
collections of the department philology and the archive of the Goethe‐University of <strong>Frankfurt</strong>. <br />
Here, he established the event format “Hauslesung” in which literature and editorial history is <br />
communicated in a way that public can understand and associate with. <br />
Starting at the Goethe‐University he hosted this format in Berlin, at the LitCologne, in Marbach, <br />
Tübingen and Zurich. <br />
His literature exhibitions were shown in different German cities as well as in Switzerland, France and <br />
Great Britain. <br />
The editions and monographs of Wolfgang Schopf have been published in the publishing companies <br />
Suhrkamp, Aufbau, autrement, Patmos and Neue Kritik. <br />
From the year 2000 – 2009 he organized the archive of the Peter Suhrkamp foundation at the <br />
Goethe‐University where editions of letters have been created, i.e. Theodor W. Adorno – Siegfried <br />
Kracauer (2009), Wolfgang Koeppen – Siegfried Unseld (2006), Adorno and his editors, the exchange <br />
of letters between Peter Suhrkamp and Siegfried Unseld (2003). <br />
Before that he belonged to the authors of the picture monograph Im Auge des Exils. Josef <br />
Breitenbach und die Freie Deutsche Kultor in Paris 1933‐1941 (2001) as well as the documentation <br />
of the first instance which the Vatican released form the secret archive: Die Macht der Zensur: <br />
Heinrich Heine auf dem Index (1998). <br />
Previous to his academic career Wolfgang Schopf startet his professional life in a belletristic <br />
publishing house. <br />
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Vera Kern <br />
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Always loved literature. Herefrom as a consequence she studied literary studies and cultural <br />
anthropology at the Goethe‐University <strong>Frankfurt</strong>. As intermediate stations she worked for the <br />
Goethe‐Institut <strong>Frankfurt</strong> as well as at a business editorial office and works since then as a freelance <br />
editor. On behalf of the Stroemfeld publishing company she arranged an exhibition “ 40 years of <br />
Stroemfeld” in the German National Library in spring 2010. Being in charge for the display cabinets as <br />
well as the research for numerous publisher correspondence and all kind of material, she discovers a <br />
new passion: not only read and edit literature but also to present it. Consequently she teams up with <br />
Wolfgang Schopf at the Goethe‐University for their first project: “Abschaffel // <strong>Frankfurt</strong> 1977‐ <br />
Exhibition at the Haus am Dom für the event <strong>Frankfurt</strong> liest ein Buch 2012. <br />
Now then: the “Window to the City” at the <strong>Margarete</strong>. <br />
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Dates and Facts <br />
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Adress: Braubachstraße 18 – 22, 60311 <strong>Frankfurt</strong> am Main <br />
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Location: Haus des Buches der Börsenvereinsgruppe <br />
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Opening: March 1st, 2012 <br />
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Companies Name: Gastronomie Betriebsgesellschaft Schöbel & Horn mbH <br />
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Executive Board: Raffaela Schöbel, Simon Horn <br />
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<strong>Restaurant</strong> Manager: Nicole Blumenthal <br />
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Executive Chefs: Luka Spanjol‐Simunelic, Ronny Bolz <br />
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Areas offered: Cafe and Bar, <strong>Restaurant</strong> Lunch and Dinner <br />
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Variety of <br />
gastronomic offers: Cafe, Bar, <strong>Restaurant</strong> <br />
home‐made products, in‐house production, to go <br />
arrangements of private and public events <br />
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Square footage: 300 Quadratmeter / 11000 sq.ft. <br />
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Capacity: Bar und Cafe: 40 seats available inside, 30 outside seating <br />
<strong>Restaurant</strong>: 80 seats available inside, 80 outside seating <br />
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Opening hours: Café and Bar: Monday to Friday starting at 7.30 am <br />
Saturday and Sunday starting at 10.00 am <br />
<strong>Restaurant</strong> Lunch: Monday to Saturday: noon – 2.30 pm <br />
Sunday starting 10.00 am <br />
<strong>Restaurant</strong> Dinner: starting 6 pm daily <br />
Private and public events on demand from Monday to Sunday <br />
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Contact: Phone: +49 . 69 . 13 06 65 00 <br />
E‐Mail: info@margarete.eu <br />
Reservation: Telefon: +49 . 69 . 13 06 65 01 <br />
E‐Mail: reservierung@margarete.eu <br />
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