Café Wolf is the festival bar and late-night stage of ORF musikprotokoll. It is the legendary haunt of many musicians, where it is easy to strike up a conversation. The café on Annenstraße opened in 1931. Walter Wolf renovated it in the 1970s and furnished it in what was then a modern style, which still defines the bar's atmosphere today.

In 2017, Thomas Fink and Michael ‘Mitch’ Stoiser took over and have been offering a wide-ranging cultural and music programme from Tuesday to Thursday ever since. Café Wolf also opens its doors on Friday and Saturday for ORF musikprotokoll.

The end of each festival day is curated and hosted by Rainer Binder-Krieglstein, himself a pop experimenter and drummer on projects by Bernhard Lang. There is also a carte blanche for musikprotokoll artists.

On 4 October, Bernhard Lang and Rainer Binder-Krieglstein will present their joint project Processing Hiob. The work is based on Lang's award-winning opera ‘Hiob,’ which premiered in 2023 and is based on Joseph Roth's novel of the same name. Binder-Krieglstein was involved in this production as a percussionist and has released a solo album entitled Processing Hiob, a rhythmically experimental reinterpretation of the material. Bernhard Lang will now give a lecture with examples from both works at Café Wolf.