Since I’m addicted to SDMB, I’m only half-listening to Hitler and Stalin on The History Channel. They just said that Hitler went to Vienna to try to enroll in an arts college, and lived in a cheap hotel. They mentioned his address.
The address they named sounded very much like “Leon’s” address in Blade Runner.
What was young Hitler’s address at the hotel in Vienna?
1908 February Hitler returns to Vienna and settles into a flat at number 29 Stumpergasse.
http://www.humanitas-international.org/holocaust/1900-09t.htm
And according to some trivia notations, Leon’s address was 1187 Hunterwasser.
“Stumpergasse”, “Hunterwasser”. They do sound familiar. Thanks.
They do sound similar.
No coffee yet.
I´m be no means an expert of Hitler´s addresses in Vienna. But I´ll add the following: He lived in a men´s shelter for a while (maybe this is the “cheap hotel” you mention), and it was in the Meldemannstrasse, 20th district. I don´t know the number, but that shelter has existed for a long time and was closed and moved somewhere else only a year or so ago (this had nothing to do with the fact that Hitler lived there).
The Stumpergasse still exists in Vienna in the 6th district. I´ve never heard about “Hunterwasser” and a place by that name doesn´t exist in Vienna right now; “hunter” ist “Jäger” in German, and “Wasser” ist “water”; there is a Jägerstrasse, however, (“Hunter street”), which ist right next to Meldemannstrasse. And of course there is the late Friedensreich Hundertwasser, a famous architect / artist (http://www.hundertwasserhaus.at/1st.html), but there can be no connection to Hitler whatsoever.
For completeness, a few other addresses should be mentioned; Hitler’s increasing poverty after he arrived in Vienna seems to have driven him through a series of increasingly worse sets of digs.
Kershaw (Hubris, Penguin, 1998, p52) mentions some of these. He seems to have spent less than a month in Sechshauserstrasse 58, slept for a while in a cafe on Kaiserstrasse, possibily stayed for a bit at Simon-Denk-Gasse 11 (Kershaw doubts this) and then wound up in a doss-house in Meidling. Incidentally, Kershaw has the Stumpergasse address as number 31 (p37). Meanwhile, Goodrick-Clarke (The Occult Roots of Nazism, 1985; Taurus, 2004, p195) claims that he spent 11/08 - 8/09 at Felberstrasse 22/16; this is important in his (to me unconvincing) argument that he met the ultra-nationalist Lanz von Liebenfels in this period.
However, the hostel on Meldemannstrasse mentioned by z_z_z is the most famous of his Vienna addresses.
I was just curious if the address in Blade Runner was Hitler’s address. It sounded similar; but I only half-heard the documentary, and it’s been years since I’ve seen Blade Runner. Obviously, “Leon”'s address isn’t an “Easter egg”.
Thanks for the replies.