Elisabeth Engstler

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Elisabeth Engstler on the occasion of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna

Elisabeth "Lizzi" Engstler (born May 6, 1960 in Villach ) is an Austrian television presenter , musical performer and singer who took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982 with the Duo Mess .

life and career

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  AT 20th 05/27/2011 (5 weeks)

Elisabeth Engstler grew up in the Seehotel Engstler on Lake Wörthersee . After school she began to study medicine in Vienna, which she did not finish. In 1982 she represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest with Michael Scheickl as the duo "Mess" with the song Sonntag and achieved ninth place. The duo also released the titles Do-Re-Wed-Fa-So oder so, Träume von Olive Trees, Cabrio and Ich want ein Eis as well as the two English versions of their competition entry Honey Bee and Sunday . Then Mess dissolved.

Engstler began studying at the Vienna Conservatory (operetta, musical and chanson). After an engagement at the Burgtheater and the leading role in the musical "Valerie" at the Wiener Festwochen , she finished her training in 1986. Since then she has moderated the Ferienexpress for ORF , from 1987 Wurlitzer , Ich und Du, Die große Chance , Happy End, from 1995 to 2007 at the side of Wolfram Pirchner Willkommen Austria and Freshly cooked . In 2005 she received the Romy as the most popular presenter.

Until 1996 she moderated radio programs like Querstadtein and Motorists on the move . Since 1997 she has appeared again as a singer and released a CD with love songs and musical hits under the title Endlich again Musik . She also played the theater on the side.

Alternating with Reinhard Jesionek and Verena Scheitz , she hosted the evening programs springtime, summertime, autumntime and wintertime on ORF from June 2007 to September 2012 . She worked as an outside reporter in the program heute leben , and occasionally she is also in the follow-up format At Home in Austria . In 2008 Elisabeth Engstler took part in the ORF dance show Dancing Stars . With her partner Alexander Zaglmaier , she took second place behind her ORF colleague Dorian Steidl with partner Nicole Kuntner . In March 2009 she published My Chaos Cookbook . In 2011 the audio CD Sehnsucht was released . From January 7, 2014 until the end of 2014, Elisabeth Engstler hosted Freshly Cooked again .

Elisabeth Engstler has been the hotel director Romy Edler in the jukebox musical I am from Austria since September 2017 .

In 2020 she made the announcements for the Badner Bahn .

Awards

  • 2005: Golden Romy as the most popular presenter (audience award)

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Engstler  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: AT
  2. ↑ See Summer, Sun, Beach Whispers. Start of the star night . Broadcast on ORF 2 on July 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ Spring time ( memento of March 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on kundendienst.orf.at, accessed on August 24, 2010.
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Engstler - der.ORF.at . In: der.ORF.at . ( orf.at [accessed March 6, 2018]).
  5. ^ Musical Vienna - I Am From Austria. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Engstler is the new voice of the Badner Bahn. In: ORF.at . June 15, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Engstler, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engstler, Lizzi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian TV presenter and singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach , Carinthia , Austria