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The “Grand Café Odeon ” opened in 1911. It was a magnificent Art Nouveau Cafe with its own confectionary production in the cellar.
The Cafe Odeon was large with high ceilings, large windows, chandeliers, brass cladding, and marble-clad walls. This opulent style is still the hallmark of Café Bar Odeon today. From its opening, the bar was a place where famous politicians, writers, poets, painters, and musicians came to meet. Colonel Ulrich Wille (a General in the Swiss Army in the First World War), Benito Mussolini, Russian revolutionary Lenin, and physicist Albert Einstein all frequented Odeon. During Hitler’s time, Odeon became a kind of ‘center-point for emigrants’. Regulars included Klaus Mann, Alfred Kerr, James Joyce, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch and Rolf Liebermann.
Limmatquai 2
8001 Switzerland , Zurich
Tel: +41 44 251 16 50
Info: info@odeon.ch
Website: odeon.ch