Couple in despair

Month-long odyssey in the ORF fee swamp

The mighty ORF center on Küniglberg in Vienna.

(Bild: APA/Robert Jäger)

When the ORF fee law was amended at the beginning of the year, a Tyrolean couple began a long battle against the bureaucracy of the state broadcaster. The ORF suddenly wanted to collect fees twice on the basis of an error. So far, all attempts at explanation have failed - the "Krone" knows the details.

"I feel taken for a ride, at the mercy of others and completely helpless and powerless." This is how one ORF compulsory fee payer describes his ping-pong with the state broadcaster, which suddenly also wants to collect fees from his wife.