"I go to the coffee house to escape myself"

When the poet Peter Altenberg was once asked for his address, he replied: "Café Central, Vienna I." In fact, he stayed for the longest time in a small, cheap room in the "Hotel London" and later in the "Grabenhotel". However, he did not live there. His real home was Vienna's coffee houses. "If Altenberg isn't in the coffee house, he's on his way there," people used to say about him.