Rafael Haider

The Best Orchestra in the World

Ingbert, the sock, applies for a position as a double bass player at the Vienna State Orchestra. Bad idea.

Wings of the Spirit

A failed musicologist Szabo and his younger successful ex-colleague Fitzthum take on a new series of adventures. This time they need to find a substitute for a missing parrot of a rare breed as well as bribe a foreign university professor with a rare Viennese vinyl.

The Victory of Charity

A music professor facing redundancy and a serious hoarding habit is pushed to extremes when he discovers his girlfriend has given a treasured 1960s band jacket to charity. He enlists a young ambitious musicologist to accompany him on a mission to retrieve the jacket.

The Burden of Memory

The young musicologist Mr. Fitzthum visits Mr. Szabo in his flat in order to get back an important sheet of music. He finds a man sitting in a countless number of documents and papers dealing with his collapsed idea of life.