“At the scene” takes a journalistic look into a small Viennese world where time seems to stand still

In a world that changes far too quickly, the little Beisl on the corner is a last refuge. For his current milieus study in the “Am STATION” report “Im Bül am Eck”-to see on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 9:05 p.m. in ORF 2 and on ORF on-Ed Moschitz meets the small restaurants that are currently easier to endure their difficult life with a glass of wine or beer. A special feeling of well-being spreads into the Alt-Wiener Beisln and it seems as if the time had stopped here at some point in the 70s or 80s.

Mr. Christian, 55, has always been favorite on his regular place on the counter in the Kult-Beisl in Vienna: “This is my family.” Although his life has long been an upswing, he still stayed until the locking lesson every day. The fact that his wife left him long ago and that he recently lost his work did not detract from his affection for the family.

“For a few years in prison,” Mr. Robert, 59, has already been behind him. Supposedly because of violent offenses. However, he would only have had the tattoos on his face done because his brother died: “To set an example.” In response to today’s youth, in which there was no cohesion: “They only want to study, but actually need more strict and hardness,” as he explains in the Markt-Beisl.

“They deserve far too much in parliament and nothing remains,” scold Roman, 55, and Gabi, 56, in the Kult-Beisl in Vienna favorites. Both have worked hard all their lives, they are sure. As a kindergarten teacher, he as a glazier. Today, their money together hardly reach until the end of the month: “If we were not overrun of foreigners, we would all be better off here.”

Mr. Abdulla, 50, on the other hand, has fled to Austria as a young man. The authority has deported the construction worker to its home country again five times. However, the Macedonian did not let go and has come again and again. Usually through the forest at night, without papers and without money. More than 30 years later he is Austrian on paper, for the others in the Beisl he remained “the Yugo”. The “favorite Yugo”, as the host in Cafe Albatros corrects: “Abdulla has already renovated the apartment for many of us.”