Café Wolf is ORF musikprotokoll’s festival bar and late-night stage. In this legendary hangout for musicians, it is easy to strike up a conversation. The café in Annenstraße opened in 1931. Walter Wolf renovated it in the 1970s according to the modern styles of the time, and this flair sets it apart today. In 2017, Thomas Fink and Michael “Mitch” Stoiser took over and have been offering a wide-ranging cultural and music program from Tuesday to Thursday ever since.

For ORF musikprotokoll, Café Wolf also opens its gates on the weekend. On Friday, Bernhard Lang and Rainer Binder-Krieglstein present Processing Hiob, which is based on Lang’s award-winning opera Hiob (2023), in turn based on the eponymous novel by Joseph Roth. Binder-Krieglstein was involved in the opera’s world premiere as a percussionist and has released a rhythmic, experimental reinterpretation of the material as a solo album. In a lecture, Lang presents examples from both works.

Saturday offers carte blanche for performances from ORF musikprotokoll musicians.