Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest

Balance sheet

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Broadcasting company

First participation

1957

Number of participations

52 (as of 2019)

Highest ranking

1 ( 1966 , 2014 )

Highest Score

342 ( 2018 )

Lowest Score

0 ( 1962 , 1988 , 1991 , 2015 )

Points average (since first post)

44.88 (as of 2019)

Average points per voting country in the 12-point system

1.75 (as of 2019)

This article deals with the history of Austria as a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest .

Regularity of participation and successes in competition

Udo Jürgens after the victory in 1966

Conchita Wurst after the 2014 victory

Austria first took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in Frankfurt am Main in 1957 . It was only the second edition of the competition, which was then called the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson . There the singer Bob Martin represented the country, but ended up with his song Wohin, kleine Pony? in last place with three points. Despite the low success in the previous year, the country also took part in 1958. There the singer Liane Augustin reached 5th place. In the following years Austria continued to participate, but could not record any great successes. The contributions from 1959 and 1960 placed 9th and 7th respectively. In 1961 and 1962, only the last place was reached, which was shared with other countries. In 1962 the contribution did not even receive a point. Austria's first successes in the competition only began in 1963.

In 1963, the singer Carmela Corren finished 7th out of 16 and ended up in the middle of the field. In 1964, the singer Udo Jürgens even reached 6th place. In 1965 too, Jürgens represented the state in the competition and, with 4th place, achieved the state's best position in the competition to date. After this success, Jürgens also represented Austria in 1966 and was again able to improve his ranking from the previous year. With his song Merci, Chérie Austria's first victory in the competition, he was only the third participant to take part three times in a row and at least one Win. In 1967 the competition took place for the first time in Austria and thus in Vienna. However, Udo Juergens' successes could not be continued and the singer Peter Horton only reached 14th place out of 17. Also in 1968 only a similar placement was achieved with 13th place. In 1969 in Madrid Austria boycotted the competition, as the country of the Franco dictatorship did not Wanted to offer a platform. In 1970 Austria refrained from participating together with Finland , Norway , Portugal and Sweden because of dissatisfaction with the circumstances and voting mechanisms of last year's event after four countries had been chosen as winners in Spain in 1969. Austria did not return to the competition until 1971.

In 1971, after a two-year absence, the country was again unable to achieve a good ranking. The Austrian contribution in 1971 only came third from the bottom. In 1972, however, the band Milestones took 5th place and with 100 points Austria achieved the highest number of points in the competition. Despite this success, Austria refrained from participating from 1973 to 1975 out of disinterest. In 1976 the country returned and was able to repeat its placement from 1972 with 5th place. After that, Austria often achieved very different placements. In 1977 only the last place in the competition was achieved, in 1978 the band Springtime reached place 15 and in 1979 the singer Christina Simon landed on a shared last place. In 1980, 8th place was reached, in 1981, however, only 17th place again. 1982 and 1983 were then 9th place each, followed by last place in 1984. By then, it was the fifth time that Austria came last in the competition. Otherwise, the successes remained manageable until 1988. In 1985, a good ranking was achieved with 8th place, but the country was only third from bottom in 1986 and 1987. In 1988 the last place was reached again, but this time with zero points. It wasn't until 1989 that there was a better placement in the competition.

In 1989, the song Nur ein Lied, performed by Thomas Forstner, achieved 5th place, the best ranking in Austria for 13 years. In 1990 the country achieved another placement in the top ten with 10th place. In 1991, however, another last place followed, the seventh last place in Austria's Songcontet history. In 1992 the singer Tony Wegas represented the country and got a good place with 10th place. In 1993 the singer also represented the country and ended up in the midfield with 14th place. In 1994 and 1995 Austria achieved placements in the middle of the field with 17th and 13th place. In 1996 it was again tenth, but in 1997 the Austrian contribution only reached 21st place. Due to the poor ranking, no contribution could be submitted in 1998. In 1999, the ORF was allowed to submit a contribution again and took another tenth place. In 2000, a position in the middle of the field was achieved again with 14th place, from which 2001 again no contribution could be submitted. In 2002 the country was allowed to participate again, but did not get a good place with 18th place either. In 2003, on the other hand, Austria sent Alf Poier with the song Because man counts and thus took 6th place, which was Austria's best result in 12 years. With 101 points Poier even topped the highest number of points from the band Milestones from 1972. However, the success ended in 2004 when the band Tie Break reached number 21. Due to the poor position in the previous year, the country then had to take part in the semi-finals introduced in the previous year for the first time in 2005. The band Global Kryner reached with the song Y así but only place 21 of 25 in the semifinals and thus clearly missed the final. In 2006 Austria withdrew from the competition. Due to poor chances of success and criticism of the musical quality, participation was waived. The then program director of ORF Reinhard Scolik said: In the meantime, this event has [...] become a bizarre competition that is completely irrelevant for the local music scene. Nevertheless, the country took part again a year later, but the singer Eric Papilaya only reached the penultimate place in the semi-finals and Austria was again clearly eliminated. In 2008 Austria did not submit a contribution again. The reason given was the unequal chances of the western and eastern European countries. In September 2008 it was announced that Austria would not participate in 2009 for these reasons. Participation was also canceled in 2010 because, from the point of view of ORF program director Wolfgang Lorenz, the chances of winning had been "ruined" by the new rules, and participation was too expensive for ORF. In 2011 Austria returned to the competition after a three-year break and from then on had its most successful phase in the competition.

In 2011 a preliminary decision was held for the first time since 2005. In the end, Nadine Beiler won this with her song The Secret is Love . Beiler then reached 7th place in the semifinals in Düsseldorf and thus brought Austria into a final for the first time via a semifinal. It was also Austria's first participation in the finals in seven years. In the final, Beiler landed in midfield with 18th place. In 2012 and 2013 Austria clearly missed the final, because in 2012 the duo Trackshittaz only reached the last place in the semifinals, while the singer Natália Kelly only got the third from last place in the semifinals. Despite these two less successful years, Austria also took part in the song contest in 2014. There, the ORF then decided to carry out an internal selection and selected Conchita Wurst . Her song Rise Like a Phoenix then successfully qualified for the finals, making the country the first time in three years to take part in the finals. That was where the great success came: Conchita Wurst won the competition in Copenhagen and thus brought Austria's first victory in 48 years. With 290 points she also got a new high score for the country. Accordingly, the 2015 competition took place in Austria for the first time since 1967, again in Vienna. But as in 1967, the country was again not very successful as a host. So the band The Makemakes did not receive a point and ended up in last place with Germany. Due to the better start number, Austria is marked as the penultimate place. It was also the first and so far only time that the host's contribution did not receive a point. In 2016 the singer Zoë should achieve a better result and successfully qualified for the final. With 13th place she got a placement in the upper midfield. Also in 2017 the singer Nathan Trent managed to reach the final, where he reached number 17. In 2018 the singer Cesár Sampson represented Austria with the song Nobody but You . He also brought Austria to the final, with Austria taking part in the final five times in a row. Most recently, Austria took part in the final so many times in a row in the mid-1990s. In the end, Sampson won the jury voting in Lisbon and, in combination with the televoting, achieved third place and thus Austria's third best result in the competition. With 342 points, Sampson also scored a new high for Austria. With the exception of Udo Jürgens in 1966, Austria achieved its greatest successes in competition within four years. However, this successful period ended in 2019.

So the singer PÆNDA missed the final, as she only occupied the penultimate place in the semifinals. It was the first time since 2013 that Austria did not qualify for the final.

In total, 20 of the 52 entries ended up in the left half of the table. Austria came in last nine times and is in third place in the list of the most frequent last places together with Switzerland. Only Norway and Finland are more often (eleven times) in last place. In addition, Austria has so far achieved zero points four times in the competition and thus most often did not score a point together with Norway and Switzerland. On the other hand, Austria only missed the finals five times. There are also two wins (1966, 2014) and a third place (2018). Overall, Austria is one of the less successful countries in competition.

List of posts

Color legend: - 1st place. - 2nd place. - 3rd place. - Equal points with last place. - Eliminated in the semifinals / in the qualification / in the Eastern European preliminary decision. - no participation / not qualified. - Cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest.      

year	Interpreter	Title Music (M) and Text (T)	language	translation	final		Semi-final / qualification		National preliminary decision	Charts (AT)
					space	Points	space	Points
1957	Bob Martin	Where to, little pony? M: Kurt Svab; T: Kurt Svab, Hans Werner	German	-	10/10	3	Direct participation		internal selection	k. A.
1958	Liane Augustin	The whole world needs love M / T: Günther Leopold, Kurt Werner	German	-	5/10	8th			internal selection	k. A.
1959	Ferry Graf	The k. u. k. Kalypso from Vienna M: Norbert Pawlicki ; T: Günther Leopold	German	-	9/11	4th			internal selection	k. A.
1960	Harry Winter	You fascinated me so much M: Robert Stolz ; T: Robert Gilbert	German	-	7/13	6th			internal selection	k. A.
1961	Jimmy Makulis	Longing M / T: Leopold Andrejewitsch	German	-	15/16	1			internal selection	k. A.
1962	Eleanor Black	Only in the Wiener Luft M / T: Bruno Uher	German	-	13/16	0			internal selection	k. A.
1963	Carmela Corren	Maybe a miracle will happen M: Erwin Halletz ; T: Peter Wehle	German, English	-	7/16	16			internal selection	k. A.
1964	Udo Juergens	Why just why? M / T: Udo Jürgens	German	-	6/16	11			internal selection	k. A.
1965	Udo Juergens	Tell her I send my regards M: Udo Jürgens ; T: Frank Bohlen	German	-	4/18	16			internal selection	4th
1966	Udo Juergens	Merci, Chérie M: Udo Jürgens ; T: Udo Jürgens, Thomas Hörbiger	German a.	Thank you sweetheart	1 /18	31			internal selection	2
1967	Peter Horton	Why there are a hundred thousand stars M: Kurt Peche; T: Karin Bognar	German	-	14/17	2			internal selection	-
1968	Karel Gott	Thousand Windows M: Udo Jürgens ; T: Walter Brandin	German	-	13/17	2			internal selection	-
1969 1970	No participation
1971	Marianne Mendt	Music M / T: Richard Schönherz , Manuel Rigoni	German	-	16/18	66	Direct participation		internal selection	-
1972	Milestones	Falter im Wind M: Richard Schönherz , Manuel Rigoni; T: Heinz Rudolf Unger	German	-	5/18	100			internal selection	-
1973 1974 1975	No participation
1976	Waterloo & Robinson	My Little World M / T: Gerhard Heinz	English	My little world	5/18	80	Direct participation		internal selection	1
1977	Butterflies	Boom Boom Boomerang M: Schuri Herrnstadt, Herbert Zöchling-Tampier, Willi Resetarits ; T: Lukas Resetarits	German b.	-	17/18	11			internal selection	10
1978	Springtime	Mrs. Caroline Robinson M: Walter Markel , Gerhard Markel ; T: Norbert Niedermayer , Gerhard Markel, Walter Markel	German	-	15/20	14th			internal selection	-
1979	Christina Simon	Today in Jerusalem M: Peter Wolf ; T: André Heller	German	-	18/19	5			internal selection	-
1980	Blue Danube	You are music M / T: Klaus-Peter Sattler	German	-	8/19	64			internal selection	-
1981	Marty Brem	When you are there M / T: Werner Böhmler	German	-	17/20	20th			National preliminary decision	-
1982	Mess	Sunday M: Michael Mell; T: Rudolf Leve	German	-	9/18	57			National preliminary decision	1
1983	West end	Hurricane M: Peter Vieweger; T: Heli Deinboek , Heinz Nessizius	German	-	9/20	53			National preliminary decision	8th
1984	Anita	Simply away M: Brigitte Seuberth; T: Walter Müller	German	-	19/19	5			National preliminary decision	1
1985	Gary Lux	Children of the World M: Mick Jackson, Geoff Bastow; T: Michael Kunze	German	-	8/19	60			internal selection	11
1986	Timna brewer	Time is lonely M: Peter Janda; T: Peter Cornelius	German	-	18/20	12			internal selection	-
1987	Gary Lux	Just feeling M: Kenneth Westmore; T: Stefanie Werger	German	-	20/22	8th			internal selection	-
1988	Wilfried	Lisa, Mona Lisa M / T: Klaus Kofler, Ronnie Herboltzheimer, Wilfried Scheutz	German	-	21/21	0			internal selection	27
1989	Thomas Forstner	Just a song M: Dieter Bohlen ; T: Joachim Horn-Bernges	German	-	5/22	97			internal selection	1
1990	Simone	No more walls M: Marc Berry, Nanna Berry; T: Mario Botazzi	German c.	-	10/22	58			National preliminary decision	23
1991	Thomas Forstner	Venice in the rain M / T: Robby Musenbichler , Hubert Moser, Wolfgang Eltner	German	-	22/22	0			National preliminary decision	5
1992	Tony Wegas	Going together M: Dieter Bohlen ; T: Joachim Horn-Bernges	German	-	10/23	63			internal selection	9
1993	Tony Wegas	Maria Magdalena M: Christian Kolonovits , Johann Bertl; T: Thomas Spitzer	German	-	14/25	32			National preliminary decision	26th
1994	Petra Frey	For the peace of the world M: Alfons Weindorf ; T: Karl and Johann Brunner	German	-	17/25	19th	Qualified directly for the final		National preliminary decision	-
1995	Stella Jones	The world is turning upside down M / T: Mischa Krausz	German	-	13/23	67			internal selection	-
1996	George Nussbaumer	Because it's good M / T: Mischa Krausz , George Nussbaumer	Vorarlbergian	Because you are fine	10/23	68	6/29	80	internal selection	36
1997	Bettina Soriat	One Step M: Marc Berry; T: Marc Berry, Martina Siber	German b.	A step	21/25	12	Qualified directly for the final		internal selection	-
1998	Not qualified
1999	Bobbie Singer	Reflection M / T: Dave Moskin	English	reflection	10/23	65	Qualified directly for the final		internal selection	30th
2000	The Rounder Girls	All to You M / T: Dave Moskin	English	Everything to you	14/24	34			internal selection	-
2001	Not qualified
2002	Manuel Ortega	Say a Word M: Alexander Kahr ; T: Robert Pfluger	English	Say a word	18/24	24	Qualified directly for the final		song.null.two	11
2003	Alf Poier	Because people count M / T: Alf Poier	Styrian	-	6/26	101			song.null.three	7th
2004	Tie break	You are M / T: Peter Zimmermann	German	-	21/24	9			song, zero, four	44
2005	Global Kryner	Y así M: Edi Köhldorfer ; T: Christof Spörk	English Spanish	And so	Eliminated		21/25	30th	song, zero, five	23
2006	No participation
2007	Eric Papilaya	Get a Life - Get Alive M: Greg Usek; T: Austin Howard	English	Begin to live - become alive	Eliminated		27/28	4th	internal selection	9
2008 2009 2010	No participation
2011	Nadine Beiler	The Secret Is Love M / T: Nadine Beiler , Thomas Rabitsch	English	The secret is love	18/25	64	7/19	69	Good morning Düsseldorf	9
2012	Trackshittaz	Woki with deim Popo M / T: Lukas Plöchl , Manuel Hoffelner	Austrian German	Wiggle your bottom	Eliminated		18/18	8th	Austria rocks the Song Contest 2012	2
2013	Natália Kelly	Shine M / T: Andreas Grass, Nikola Paryla, Natália Kelly , Alexander Kahr	English	to shine	Eliminated		14/16	27	Austria rocks the Song Contest 2013	26th
2014	Conchita Wurst	Rise Like a Phoenix M / T: Charly Mason, Joey Patulka, Ali Zuckowski , Julian Maas	English	Resurrect like a phoenix	1 / 26th	290	1/15	169	internal selection	1
2015	The Makemakes	I Am Yours M / T: Jimmy Harry, Dominic Muhrer, Markus Christ, Florian Meindl	English	I belong to you	26/27 1	0	Qualified directly for the final		Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria?	2
2016	Zoë	Loin d'ici M / T: Christof Straub , Zoë Straub	French	Far away from here	13/26	151	7/18	170	Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria?	13
2017	Nathan Trent	Running on Air M / T: Bernhard Penzias, Nathan Trent	English	Run on air	16/26	93	7/18	147	internal selection	18th
2018	Cesár Sampson	Nobody but You M / T: Cesár Sampson, Sebastian Arman, Joacim Persson, Johan Alkenäs, Borislaw Milanow	English	No one but you	3 / 26th	342	4/19	231	internal selection	1
2019	PÆNDA	Limits M / T: PÆNDA	English	Limits	Eliminated		17/18	21st	internal selection	-
2020	Vincent Bueno	Alive M: Vincent Bueno , David "Davey" Yang, Felix van Göns, Artur Aigner; T: Vincent Bueno	English	Lively	Cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the EBU				internal selection	-
2021	Vincent Bueno								internal selection

¹ Since the two last placed (Germany and Austria) did not have any points, even the highest individual points could not decide on the placement, so the start number decided in accordance with Section 1.4 of the rules.

^a. with French title

^b. with English title

^b.with sentences in English, French and Croatian

National preliminary decisions

In most years, the Austrian contributions were selected internally: 1957 to 1980, 1985 to 1989, 1992, 1995 to 2000, 2007, 2014 and since 2017. In the other years, national preliminary rounds were held on television, with the ORF using various selection procedures :

1981

The first ever Austrian qualification took place in 1981. It turned out to be relatively small: Marty Brem presented all three songs before the audience could vote for their favorite by postcard .

1982 to 1984

Between 1982 and 1984 twelve songs by different artists were presented in the preliminary round. The winner was determined through a public survey.

1990 and 1991

In 1990 and 1991 ten songs each were presented, voting was carried out by means of a jury and telephone voting. In 1990, the group Duett with the singer Monika Sutter originally won the preliminary round with the song Das Beste . Shortly after the broadcast, however, it turned out that the title had already taken part in the radio semi-finals in Germany in 1988 and was therefore disqualified. Simone, the runner-up, was therefore allowed to go to Zagreb .

1993

In 1993 Tony Wegas presented all seven songs of the preliminary decision before the audience could vote again by postcard.

1994

The following year eight artists took part, each with a title, and a jury alone chose the winner.

2002 to 2005

In the years 2002 to 2004 the Austrian qualification took place under the title song.null. ... (supplemented by the respective year). In all years there were ten songs to choose from, whereby from 2002 to 2004 each artist had one song, but in 2005 five singers and groups each presented two titles. The voting mechanism changed: in 2002 the televoting was carried out by an internet jury made up of the winners of a competition, in 2003 the telephone voting was divided into female and male callers. In 2005 the callers were divided into the nine federal states and a fictitious tenth federal state, which counted all calls made by mobile phone . The voting process was heavily criticized because every federal state, regardless of its number of inhabitants, as well as the cell phone callers, had the same voting rights, which means that the vote was postponed in favor of rural regions and the elderly. In fact, it turned out in retrospect that the second-placed Alf Poier had received 106,100 calls, 45,000 votes more than the winner Global Kryner.

2011

→ see Good morning Düsseldorf

Between the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, ORF television and Ö3 held a preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time since 2005. The Austrian contribution to the Song Contest in Düsseldorf was determined in three phases. From autumn to New Year's Eve 2010, every singer could nominate his or her song on the ORF website.

A jury shortened the number of participants to 30. From January 3rd to 31st you could vote for your favorite by SMS. The top 10 was decided by a combination of SMS voting and the jury. On February 25th, first the top 3 and then the winner was chosen by televoting.

2012

The Austrian Broadcasting Organization organized the preliminary decision Austria rocks the song contest 2012 . The winner was determined by televoting, Trackshittaz prevailed against Conchita Wurst.

2013

In Austria rocks the Song Contest 2013 , in addition to the televoting of the audience, an international jury of experts from other participating countries judged the titles of the preliminary rounds. Natália Kelly won ahead of Yela.

2015

→ Main article : Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria? (2015)

The ORF returned to a national qualification in 2015. The Austrian contribution was sought in four shows.

The first three programs were pre-recorded before the last program was broadcast live on March 13, 2015. In this, the winner (and his song) was determined 50% by jury evaluation and 50% by tele-voting. The Makemakes emerged victorious.

2016

→ Main article : Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria? (2016)

The Austrian preliminary round for Stockholm took place on February 12, 2016. Nine of the ten performers were chosen by ORF, and another could apply via an online vote that was carried out via Facebook. The Austrian participant in the Song Contest in Sweden was Zoë selected.

Since 2017

Austria's participants have been selected internally by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) since 2017. The candidates will be scouted by Eberhard Forcher .

languages

Even in the years with free choice of language, Austria occasionally remained true to its national language, eleven songs have been sung entirely in English so far: 1976, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The contribution 2005 was sung in English and Spanish, in 1977 the text was given some English words, in 1997 an English title line was used. In 1966 the title line was in French, in 2016 the entire article. Occasionally, the song contest stage also sang in different dialects, namely Viennese (1971), Vorarlbergerisch (1996), Styrian (2003) and Upper Austrian (2012).

Commercial success

From an international perspective, Udo Jürgens is certainly the most successful Austrian participant with his competition entries from a commercial point of view: All three entries made it into the charts in Germany, among others. His winning song Merci, Chérie was very successful in many countries - sometimes sung in other languages. The English version of his 1964 entry, Walk Away , was covered by that year's British rep, Matt Monro , and reached fourth place in the UK singles chart. His own contribution, I Love the Little Things , which did even better in the competition, was only published as a B-side, on the same single.

Nationally, some contributions were hits, especially in the 1980s and 2010s. Both the duo Mess 1982 and the singer Anita 1984 were able to climb the top of the Austrian charts with their contributions. The winning entry by Conchita Wurst in 2014 and the third-placed entry by Cesár Sampson in 2018 also reached number 1 in the Austrian charts. A few more songs reached the top 10, including 1983, 1989, 1991, 2011, 2012 and 2015.

Hosted competitions

year	city	venue	Moderation
1967	Vienna	Great ballroom of the Hofburg	Erica Vaal
2015		Wiener Stadthalle	Arabella Kiesbauer , Mirjam Weichselbraun , Alice Tumler and Conchita Wurst

List of commentators

Year (s)	Commentators
1957 - 1963	Commentary on ARD Germany between 1957 and 1963
1964 - 1966	Willy Kralik
1967	Emil Kollpacher
1968 - 1969	Willy Kralik
1970 - 1978	Ernst Grissemann
1979	Max Schautzer
1980	Günther Ziesel
1981 - 1989	Ernst Grissemann
1990	Barbara Stoeckl
1991	Herbert Dobrovolny
1992 - 1998	Ernst Grissemann
1999 - 2008	Andi Knoll
2009	Benny Hörtnagl
2010	no broadcast on ORF
2011	Andi Knoll
2012	Andi Knoll & Lukas Plöchl (as co-commentator at Andi Knoll's side)
	Stermann & Grissemann (in two-channel sound as an alternative to Andi Knoll's comment)
2013 - 2018	Andi Knoll
2019	Andi Knoll & Pænda (as co-commentator at Andi Knoll's side)
2020	Competition canceled

List of points speakers

Year (s)	Points speaker
1957 - 1959	Karl Bruck
1960 - 1963	Emil Kollpacher
1964 - 1968	Walter Richard Langer
1969 - 1975	no points speaker
1976 - 1981	Jenny Pippal
1982 - 1984	Tilia Herald
1985	Chris Lohner
1986 - 1990	Tilia Herald
1991	Gabriele Haring
1992 - 1993	Andy Lee Lang
1994 - 1995	Tilia Herald
1996	Martina Rupp
1997	Adriana Zartl
1998	no points speaker
1999 - 2000	Dodo Roščić
2001	no points speaker
2002 - 2005	Dodo Roščić
2006	no points speaker
2007	Eva Pölzl
2008 - 2010	no points speaker
2011 - 2016	Katharina Bellowitsch
2017	Kristina Inhof
2018	Katharina Bellowitsch
2019	Philipp Hansa
2020	Competition canceled

Scoring

The following countries received the most points from or awarded the most points to Austria (as of 2019):

Most of the points awarded in the final space country Points 1  United Kingdom 189 2  Sweden 177 3  Ireland 172 4th  France 148 5  Germany 144

Most in the final received points space country Points 1  United Kingdom 126 2  Belgium 121 3  Ireland 103 4th  Sweden 100 5  Germany 097

Most of the points awarded space country Points 1  Ireland 214 2  Sweden 200 3  United Kingdom 189 4th  Netherlands 174 5  Switzerland 168

Most total obtained points space country Points 1  United Kingdom 149 2  Belgium 148 3  Ireland 146 4th  Switzerland 136 5  Germany 125

Award of the highest rating

Since the introduction of the twelve-point system in 1975, Austria has awarded the maximum number of points to 22 different countries, seven of which to the United Kingdom. In the semi-finals, Austria awarded the maximum number of points to 15 different countries, two of them to Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Highest rating (final) year country Place (final) 1975 No participation 1976  France 2 1977  United Kingdom 2 1978  France 3 1979  Switzerland 10 1980  Netherlands 5 1981  France 3 1982  United Kingdom 7th 1983  Israel 2 1984  Sweden 1 1985  Norway 1 1986  Ireland 6th 1987  Ireland 1 1988  Denmark 3 1989  Sweden 4th 1990  Ireland 3 1991  France 2 1992  United Kingdom 2 1993  United Kingdom 2 1994  Poland 2 1995  United Kingdom 10 1996  Netherlands 7th 1997  United Kingdom 1 1998 Not qualified 1999  Bosnia and Herzegovina 7th 2000  Germany 5 2001 Not qualified 2002  United Kingdom 3 2003  Turkey 1 2004  Serbia and Montenegro 2 2005  Serbia and Montenegro 7th 2006 No participation 2007  Serbia 1 2008 to 2010 No participation 2011  Bosnia and Herzegovina 6th 2012  Sweden 1 2013  Azerbaijan 2 2014  Armenia 4th 2015  Australia 5 2016  Australia (J) 2  Poland (T) 8th 2017  Netherlands (J) 11  Portugal (T) 1 2018  Israel (J) 1  Czech Republic (T) 6th 2019  North Macedonia (J) 7th  Switzerland (T) 4th 2020 Competition canceled

Highest rating (semi-finals) year country Place (semifinals) 2004  Serbia and Montenegro 1 2005  Croatia 4th 2006 No participation 2007  Serbia 1 2008 to 2010 No participation 2011  Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 2012  Albania 2 2013  Denmark 1 2014  Romania 2 2015  Russia 1 2016  Malta (J) 3  Bosnia and Herzegovina (T) 11 2017  Bulgaria (J) 1  Hungary (T) 2 2018  Israel (J) 1  Ireland (T) 6th 2019  Sweden (J) 3  Switzerland (T) 4th 2020 Competition canceled

various

• Austria holds the record for the longest time span between two victories by a country (48 years from 1966 to 2014). Spain last won in 1969 and would break that record if they won again.
• Austria is the first country to finish the competition with zero points as host and last year's winner (2015). The Netherlands had in 1958 to a point - occupied last place - albeit divided. The worst results of a host under the twelve-point scoring system had reached Sweden (1992, penultimate place with nine points) and Latvia (2003, third last place with five points).
• The Austrian contribution from 1992, Going Together , was helped by its composer Dieter Bohlen to new successes around ten years later: With a new text and under the title We Have a Dream , he recorded the song with the finalists of the first season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar on. The single reached number 1 in the German and Swiss and number 2 in the Austrian sales charts. In Germany it was the most successful single of 2003.
• Despite the common language, Austria and Germany were rarely point suppliers for each other. The only German artist who ever received twelve points from Austria was Stefan Raab in 2000 with Wadde hadde dudde da? . Conversely, Austria only received twelve points from its larger neighboring country once: In 2011, Germany, as the host, awarded Nadine Beiler the highest number of points. At Nicole Austria awarded only one point in their victory in 1982; the first Austrian winner Udo Jürgens received (at that time still with a different rating system) in none of his three participations points from Germany. In 2014 Conchita Wurst was the favorite in the German televoting, but received no points from the German jury, so that in the combined audience and jury rating, seven points from Germany were ultimately recorded.
• Three of the five song contest participants sent by Austria between 2007 and 2014 took part in the third season of the Starmania casting show: Eric Papilaya (2007), Nadine Beiler (2011) and Tom Neuwirth (2014; known as Conchita Wurst ).
• Austria returned to the ESC with the reintroduction of the nationwide juries and has so far benefited in several cases: In 2018, Cesár Sampson won the jury voting and was thus able to secure 3rd place in the end. In 2017, Nathan Trent received his points exclusively from the jury, but not a single point from the audience. Nadine Beiler was also scored upwards by the juries in 2011 with a 5th place - due to the point system at the time, however, without any major impact on the final result. On the other hand, Zoë Straub fared completely different , who placed in the top 10 in televoting in 2016, but only finished third from last in the juries.

Impressions

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  Liane Augustin 1958

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  Udo Juergens in 1965

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  Tie Break 2004

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  Eric Papilaya 2007

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  Nadine Beiler 2011

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  Natália Kelly 2013

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  Conchita Wurst 2014

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  The Makemakes 2015

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  Zoë 2016

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  Nathan Trent 2017

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  Cesár Sampson 2018

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  Pænda 2019

Web links

• The texts for all Austrian contributions - With pictures of the participants on diggiloo.net
• The videos for all Austrian contributions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ eurovision-austria.com ( Memento from December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Austria sad record holder . Tyrolean daily newspaper; accessed on May 27, 2015
3. ↑ austriancharts.at
4. ^ Public Rules of the 60th Eurovision Song Contest. (PDF) European Broadcasting Union , p. 4 , archived from the original on April 30, 2015 ; accessed on May 24, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Plagiarism, bad luck & politics - the songs of the Eurovision Song Contest that were prevented (2)
6. ↑ esctoday.com March 1, 2005 ( Memento from March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ ^{a b} charts-surfer.de