The briskly cut video is published, the 80-page concept sent: “We did everything we could do.” Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) summarized the status of Vienna’s song contest application on Tuesday at a media appointment with the winner Johannes Pietsch alias JJ. The next step is now a meeting at ORF: “We have invited to a conversation in the next few days,” Ludwig told the Standard. “We are waiting for that now.”