The dispute over Vienna's music legend: dust and downfall in the soundmill studio!

The dispute over Vienna's music legend: dust and downfall in the soundmill studio!

Austria's music history has suffered a difficult loss. The legendary recording studio of the Austropop producer Peter Jürgen Müller († 79) in Vienna-Liesing was so badly damaged by a long-term construction site that his devices became unusable. From 2016, the landlord began renovation work, which were initially announced as harmless. But from May 2017, the studio turned into a dust desert when the facade was edited with a sandblaster. Dust penetrated freely into the premises, which massively added to the technical devices, as the producer's widow described in an interview. According to the report, even dust was recovered from the XLR sockets of the studio, which further tightened, so reported Today.at .

legal disputes and tenancy law

a year before his death, Müller complained to 230,000 euros in damages. However, the landlord showed the responsibility and claimed that the dust pollution was not due to the construction site. This contradictory presentation raises important legal questions, especially with regard to liability for renovations. Tenancy law states that work on the facade is part of the maintenance effort and cannot be killed to the tenants, unless they lead to a rent increase through modernization. A serious facade can even be considered a lack of rental, which justifies a reduction in rent payments, as from which rietrechtslexikon .

The years of conflict over the studio remains unsolved, and the cause is negotiated again at the BG Liesing. Lawyer Guilherme Spiegelberg emphasizes that they do everything they can to restore a piece of Austrian music history. However, the uncertainty about the outcome of the procedure continues to float over this dramatic conflict between an estimated music producer and the owners of a construction site, which laid the roots of the Austropop, among others, with hits like "Live is Life".