John Fischlmeyer - OVERVIEW

JOHN FISCHLMEYER

Goldprospector Cafetier Globetrotter

Setting off for Paris - Gold digger on the Yukon - Businessman in New York - Cafetier in Vienna. A life between the old and the new world.

When Johann Fischlmeyer leaves a small village in Austria for France, it is an escape from an all too predictable future. The year 1888 in Paris is more exciting than 1888 in Matzleinsdorf.

Searched for gold. Gold found.
The American gold rush fascinates John. He sets off from France to Alaska and crosses the dangerous Chilkoot Pass.

Life in Vienna. Ownership of Café Ritz.
The well-known restaurant in the first district now belongs to John. Toute Vienne is his guest and dances to the sounds of the newly founded ladies' orchestra.

Back in the US. Hotel manager at the Hotel Astor.
John loses his fortune in the First World War. Everything back to the start. It is clear to John that he has better opportunities in the USA. He travels to New York and becomes manager of the famous Hotel Astor.

No cell phone. No Instagram.
Communicating was important to John. Setting off into the distance, hard work, social advancement, strokes of fate. John writes about it. Letters and postcards.

Photo on the occasion of his engagement to Isabella Young Mackenzie, New York 1903

Postcard from Hawaii

With brother Josef (left) 1929 in Amstetten (Lower Austria)

Back in the US. Hotel manager at the Hotel Astor.
John loses his fortune in the First World War. Everything back to the start. It is clear to John that he has better opportunities in the USA. He travels to New York and becomes manager of the famous Hotel Astor.

No cell phone. No Instagram.
Communicating was important to John. Setting off into the distance, hard work, social advancement, strokes of fate. John writes about it. Letters and postcards.

- Go out into the world. It is more fantastic than any dream -

Ray Bradbury

Back in the US. Hotel manager at the Hotel Astor.John loses his fortune in the First World War. Everything back to the start. It is clear to John that he has better opportunities in the USA. He travels to New York and becomes manager of the famous Hotel Astor.

No cell phone. No Instagram.Communicating was important to John. Setting off into the distance, hard work, social advancement, strokes of fate. John writes about it. Letters and postcards.

- Go out into the world. It is more fantastic than any dream -

Ray Bradbury

Back in the US. Hotel manager at the Hotel Astor.
John loses his fortune in the First World War. Everything back to the start. It is clear to John that he has better opportunities in the USA. He travels to New York and becomes manager of the famous Hotel Astor.

No cell phone. No Instagram.
Communicating was important to John. Setting off into the distance, hard work, social advancement, strokes of fate. John writes about it. Letters and postcards.