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The Eden Bar about Emmy Stein, Gabor Kenezy and Heinz Werner Schimanko Invitation from 1933	Who doesn’t know the photos that document the pleasant evenings at the Vienna Eden Bar? Illustrations the exponents of politics, business and corporate life radiate a saturation of the flare found in the vicinity of St. Stephans cathedral in a little alleyway. The publicity-heavy photo exhibition of Eden Bar stems from the creativity of the bar owner, Heinz Werner Schimanko, who with his resonant voice amused himself with the vanity fair of people: “at first, the people who were inside did not want to hangout outside, however the guests intervened the personnel and photographers so that their image graced the display. The Eden Bar is a nostalgic bar, and in 2004, the bar celebrated 100 years. This is especially amazing, considering the house in Liliengasse 2 was built only in 1911 by architect Rudolf Erdoes. However, in the Eden, there was always a most welcome reason to celebrate. When Heinz Werner Schimanko took over the bar in 1974 from the Hungarian Gabor Kenezy, he kept traditions from Kenezy in mind and continued the traditional clothing and manner etiquettes.
Gabor Kenezy had been managing the bar since 1953. The bar manager before him was Emmy Stein. Heinz Werner Schimanko did not know Emmy Stein, but he did know Gerhard Bronner. Gerhard Bronner who with the song “Der Papa wird’s schon richten”—composed by Helmut Qualtinger in 1958—used it to lead the most successful advertisement for the bar and nearly became the bar manager. Bronner, though, who was managing the Marietta Bar, did not take the offer from Emmy Stein to take over management for Eden Bar. Baronin von Stein, first owner. The question that follows is: Who actually is Ms. Stein? Who was she? Other than being very old and almost blind, Gerhard Bronner can offer no other information. “You cannot forget, I am already over 80 years old and at that time, I was one of the youngest Eden Bar customers.” Bronner believes that Ms. Stein was Jewish and who had amazingly lived through the Second World War in Vienna.	View from the 30s
In jail because of listening to enemy broadcasts. Investigated, not at all! Emmy Stein did not outlive the Second World War unharmed. In the Austrian archive of documents, the KZ-Verband says that Emmy Stein suffered from: “blindness in the right eye, in the left eye 6/60, renal disease, rheumatoid, unable to work, needs a companion.” The legally recorded name of Emmy Stein, Emma Steininger, was from the 29th of June until August 1944 in detention. The reason for incarceration was not confession, but for the offense of listening to enemy broadcasts. Emma Steininger got her bar on June 5th, 1948 under the provision that the bar was connected to the NS-Machtuebernahme. Gerhard Bronner did not accept the offer from Mrs. Stein, and instead, Gabor Kenezy seized the opportunity and took the bar for a life annuity of 5000 schillings. Emmy Stein asked only once for rent for the Eden Bar before she passed away.