If cities invite writers to live there for a while as writers in residence, and to immerse themselves in the literary life of the city, why shouldn’t festivals also employ their own festival columnists? Patrick Hahn, opera and concert dramaturg at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, music publicist and co-blogger of the “Bad Blog of Musick”, will be keeping his very own, very personal record of the musikprotokoll festival this year. With aesthetic essays and hot dog stand chat, cloakroom whispers and instant reactions, Hahn, who was awarded the “Reinhard Schulz Prize” for contemporary music publishing last year, plunges into an ocean of letters, delivering live on stage and online preludes, intermezzi and encores of what he has heard every day.