Anita Wagner

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Singles

Just go away   AT 1 05/15/1984 (10 weeks)

Anita Wagner , born Anita Spanner , (born December 22, 1960 in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district ) is an Austrian singer .

Participation in the Eurovision Song Contest

In 1984 the then relatively unknown Anita Spanner took part in the Austrian preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest . With the song Einfach weg , composed by Brigitte Seuberth and texted by Walter Müller , she was able to prevail clearly against the second-placed duo Gitti and Gary and thus won the ticket for Luxembourg , where her competitor from the preliminary round, Gary Lux , was to be her background singer. At the Eurovision Song Contest she was much less successful: with only five points - one from Ireland and four from Denmark - she came in last among 19 participants.

After the competition

Despite the poor performance, her competition entry in Austria was very successful commercially: it entered the Austrian single charts and stayed in the top 20 for ten weeks. Anita recorded more records, but did not make it back into the charts. In 1991 she took part again in the Austrian qualification and achieved seventh place among ten participants with the song Land in Sight .

Withdrawal from the music business

In the mid-1990s, the singer, now married as Anita Wagner, withdrew from the music business and has since concentrated on her profession as a legal assistant. She is married, has two children and lives in Oberdorf in Burgenland . In 2008 she returned to the stage.

Discography / Singles (selection)

• Just Away (1984)
• You did it
• Land in Sight (1991)
• I knew it
• You wake the tiger in me

See also

• List of number one hits in Austria (1984)

literature

• Jan Feddersen : A song can be a bridge. The German and international history of the Grand Prix Eurovision. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09350-7 .

Web links

• The text for Just gone (with pictures)
• Official homepage of Anita Wagner

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts AT
2. ^ Austrian Final 1991 ( Memento from March 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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