Hotel Regina – Wien, Österreich (Deutsch)

Asked to entertain a complete history research of the hotel, we were employed by the Kremslehner family, who own the Hotel Regina since its foundation (1877). Managing partner Wolfgang Kremslehner proved to be an enthusiastic companion in history research and collecting interviews, documents and leads. His uncle Peter Kremslehner opened his private collections and the hotel's archive for us. We completed the research in 2016, the publishing year of the book.

Among the many findings we discovered a very special hotel guest in history. By coincident we met collector Thomas Plötzeneder, who told us about his purchase of a collection of letters written by the eminent Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Some of them were sent from the hotel Regina, bearing the hotel's letterhead.

In 1937, Zweig fled from a growing anti-Jewish attitude and left his home town Vienna for ever. He spent his last days in Vienna at the Hotel Regina. It was here, on 28 November 1937 (his birthday), that he penned down his hand written catalogue of autographs. He donated this collection to the Austrian National Museum. The Hotel Regina was his last official postal address in Vienna.