Café Nagler at Moritzplatz

The cafétier Ignatz Nagler, who was born in Bukovina in 1870 and had lived in Berlin since 1896, opened his own café on Moritzplatz in 1908. The "Café Nagler am Moritzplatz" covered two floors, the first floor and the 1st floor. In the invitation card for the opening, it was touted as a "first-class café." Ignatz Nagler ran it together with his wife Rosa, who had been born in West Prussia in 1876. The couple had three children, all of whom were Zionist and gradually emigrated to British Mandate Palestine during the 1920s. In 1924 Ignatz and Rosa Nagler closed the café and also emigrated to Palestine in 1925. They settled in Haifa. Ignatz Nagler died there in 1929, his wife in 1951. 

To this day, the memory of Café Nagler is kept alive in the family. The great-great-granddaughter Mor Kaplansky made a documentary film about the "Café Nagler", which was also shown at the Berlinale. In it, she goes on location in Berlin in search of the traces of her ancestors' café, around which numerous legends entwine in the family memory.