Hemingway’s Bar in Galtür, Tyrol

Our bar, which is named after the great author Hemingway, is still an insider’s tip on the Paznaun bar circuit. It’s a meeting point for gourmets, epicures, barflies and cigar lovers.
Understatement is the key word here – Hemingway’s Bar is the place to be for lovers of good taste.
The attitude here is “the greatest luxury is having time for a good drink...!“ In the HWB, this principle is not just a way of living, it’s a celebration!

Allow yourself this luxury, and pop in for a quality beverage!

About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (born on 21 st July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois; died on 2 nd July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho) was one of the most successful and best-known US American authors of the 20 th century.

As well as that, he was a reporter and war correspondent, a storyteller – not to mention an adventurer, hunter, sea fisherman, large game hunter and much more. His father was a country doctor, his mother an opera singer; he learnt to hunt and fish at an early age and loved living with nature. In 1918 he served voluntarily as a paramedic on the North Italian front, where he was seriously injured on two occasions. In 1924 he moved to Paris where he devoted himself to writing. It was here that he became acquainted with other Americans living there, including Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. In 1927 he notched up his first major success with “The Sun also Rises (Fiesta)”, which could in part be attributed to the revolutionary, no-frills style he adopted in those days.

He continued to work as a reporter after the First World War. For instance he reported during the Greco-Turkish war in 1922, as well as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). He was a war correspondent during the Second World War.

In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for “The Old Man and the Sea”. It is set in Hemingway’s chosen homeland of Cuba ; the character upon which the book’s hero was based, Cuban fisherman Gregorio Fuentes, died in his native village in 2002 aged 104. Hemingway left Cuba after the revolution and couldn’t really settle down properly anywhere else. He went back to Paris as well as to Spain ; two periods in hospital in the USA did not help him either.

He was fascinated by hunting, sea fishing, boxing and bullfighting in particular, which is also reflected in his works. His literary heroes are typical examples of the “lost generation” (Gertrude Stein); they try to gain control of their lives and bear their fate with composure, an attitude that is particularly brought home by Hemingway’s direct style of writing. Whenever he wrote a book, he ate almost nothing but peanut-butter sandwiches. Depression and alcohol were his constant companions throughout life, which he ended himself after a long illness. As his father did before him in 1928, Ernest Hemingway shot himself at the age of 61, having survived extreme risk and injury in many wars. Before his illness, which has been linked with manic depression as well as possibly also attributed to two plane crashes in Africa, he was a symbol for over-the-top, if somewhat melancholic vitality. His grand-daughter Margeaux, an actress and photographic model, followed in his footsteps exactly 35 years later.