Anna Sacher ( Fuchs; 2 January 1859 — 25 February 1930) was an
Austrian
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hotel owner and proprietor, who was the owner of the world famous
Hotel Sacher
Hotel Sacher is a five-star luxury hotel in Vienna, Austria, facing the Vienna State Opera in the city's central Innere Stadt district. It is famous for the specialty of the house, the Sachertorte, a chocolate cake with apricot filling. There is ...
. She was the daughter-in-law of
Franz Sacher
Franz Sacher (16 December 1816 – 11 March 1907) was an Austrian confectioner, best known as the inventor of the Sachertorte.
Biography
According to Sacher's son Eduard, in 1832 Austria's minister of foreign affairs, Prince Metternich, order ...
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Life
Anna was born on 2 January 1859 in Vienna, Austria. Her father Johann Fuchs was a butcher. Anna grew up in
Leopoldstadt
Leopoldstadt (; ; "Leopold-Town") is the 2nd municipal district of Vienna () in Austria. there are 103,233 inhabitants over . It is situated in the heart of the city and, together with Brigittenau (20th district), forms a large island surrou ...
, the 2nd district of the Austrian capital, where she attended school and used to help her father in his butcher's shop.
In 1880, she married the restaurateur and hotelier Eduard Sacher (1843-1892), the son of Rosa and Franz Sacher, inventors of the later world-famous ''
Sachertorte
Sachertorte ( , ; ) is a chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate glaze, with an interior layer of apricot jam either under the glaze or in the middle of two sponge layers. The cake was invented by Franz Sacher, either in 1832 for Aus ...
'', which was later made in the Hotel Sacher confectionery. Anna had three children with her husband: Eduard Junior, Franziska, and Anna ("Anni"). In 1876, Eduard Sacher opened his hotel on the Vienna Philharmonic Street. Within a few years, it was valued for its elegance, exclusivity, and top gastronomy. After her husband died in 1892, Anna took over the management of the house and the hotel. In the following decades, she made the Hotel Sacher one of the most famous hotels in
Europe
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with her gastronomic knowledge and her unique corporate style.
Anna Sacher received numerous awards at culinary art exhibitions as a hotel manager. Her fondness for cigars and for small
French Bulldog
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Anna Sacher died in Vienna on 25 February 1930''.'' She was buried in the ''Dornbacher Friedhof (''Dornbach Cemetery'')'' in
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
* ''Hotel Sacher'', ''Anna Sacher'''s character played by '' Hedwig Bleibtreu'' (Feature film, 1939).
* '' Das Sacher'' by Robert Dornhelm (2016).
* ''The Queen of Vienna - Anna Sacher and her Hotel'' by Beate Thalberg (Documentary film, 2016).
Literature
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* Ingrid Haslinger: ''Kunde – Kaiser. Die Geschichte der ehemaligen k. u. k. Hoflieferanten''. Schroll, Wien 1996, .
* János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: ''K.u.K. Hoflieferanten Wiens''. Stocker, Graz 2001, . S. 10–15.
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Monika Czernin
Monika Czernin (born 18 February 1965) is an Austrian writer, screenwriter, actress and film director.
Education and early career
Czernin studied education, political science, philosophy and journalism at the University of Vienna.
Family bac ...
: ''Das letzte Fest des alten Europa: Anna Sacher und ihr Hotel''. Knaus, München 2014,