12 candidates, one winner
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The Austrian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 12 becomes 1which took place on March 25, 1982, was an exciting evening for the local music scene. There was 143 entries and a jury selected twelve titles from them. These twelve contributions competed against each other live from the ORF television studio; The preliminary decision was moderated by the actor and cabaret artist Andreas Steppan. A jury was spread across Austria, put together according to an international demographic key, and decided on the winner of the evening.
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From ESC participant to ORF presenter
From today’s perspective, the most famous participant of the group was certainly the Carinthian woman Elisabeth anxiety. After her ESC experience, she began studying at the Vienna Conservatory in the areas of operetta, musicals and chanson. After an engagement at the Burgtheater and the leading role in the musical „Valerie“ She completed her training at the Vienna Festival in 1986. Since then, she has presented countless television and radio programs for ORF, and in 2005 she was awarded the Romy, the Austrian film and television award, as the most popular presenter.
ESC success and World Music Award
In connection with the ESC you can’t mention Elisabeth “Lizzi” Engstler without also mentioning her song partner Michael „Fritz“ Scheikl because they performed together as a duo Mess with the eventual winning title Sunday on. The former Vienna Boys’ Choir was married to Elisabeth Engstler from 1985 to 1992. In 1992 he received it together with the singer Jazz is Gonewith whom he had worked as a composer and producer since 1988, the World Music Award in Monaco for the best-selling recordings in Austria. We will also see Jazz Gitti at the Austrian preliminary round two years later.
Crowd favorites from the preliminary round
The group Main Street characterized the field of participants with four songs and attracted a lot of attention. Lizzy Engstler and Michael Scheickl also performed both together and solo. At that time there was no rule as to how many times a participant could compete, and each composer could choose his own performers. With their fourth song Rock ’n’ Roll Revival Main Street were the crowd’s top favorites. Some shouts of Bravo were clearly audible – the loudest from Ralph Siegelwho was present in the studio and was apparently enthusiastic about the title.
Acrobatics and music
First came as a break program Kris cream (civil Kristian guest cream) on. He is a world-famous Swiss juggler and is considered a legend in his field. He became famous, among other things, for the first successful quadruple pirouette during a juggling trick, which earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. Then took care of it Richard Austrian with his orchestra, which also accompanied the preliminary participants, for further entertainment and presented a medley of five ESC winning songs during the break.
The decision
The winner of the preliminary decision was chosen exclusively by the spectators. The audience jury was selected according to an international demographic key and represented a representative cross-section of the Austrian population. The scoring system stipulated that each member could award points to five titles: First place received ten points, second six, third four, fourth two and fifth one point. All points awarded were then added up. The song with the highest overall score was selected as the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest in Harrogate.
The winning title impressed the jury and audience alike with its catchy melodies and clear pop orientation. The remaining contributions received attention, but fell significantly short Sunday back, also the strongly favorited post Rock ’n’ Roll Revival of Main Street, who finished second. This underlined the special significance of the winning song within the Austrian music scene. With Sunday Austria reached the ESC final in Harrogate 9. Platz among 18 participating countries and collected 57 points. The competition victory went to Germany for the first time with Nicole and the song by Ralph Siegel A little peace.
