Eurovision Song Contest 1971

16th Eurovision Song Contest
date	3rd April 1971
Host country	Ireland
venue	Gaiety Theater , Dublin
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir
Pause filler	Shannon Castle Entertainers
participating countries	18th
winner	Monaco
First time participation	Malta
Returning participants	Finland , Norway , Austria , Portugal , Sweden
Voting rule	Each country has a two-person jury. One juror over, the other under 25 years. The jurors are allowed to give a minimum of 1 point and a maximum of 5 points to each country.
◄ ESC 1970 • ESC 1972 ►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the 16th song competition of the European broadcasters Eurovision since it began in 1956. It took place on April 3, 1971 at the Gaiety Theater in Dublin , since last year's winner Dana had run for Ireland . The event was moderated by Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir . Séverine won the contest for Monaco with the song Un banc, un arbre, une rue .

particularities

The new scoring system again caused some confusion. Several countries, a total of 8 out of 18, did not use the maximum possible number of 10 points (two jurors with 5 points each) for a country's contribution. One consequence was that the countries gave different numbers of votes overall. The French jurors awarded a total of 107 points, but the Luxembourgers “only” 43 points. It was not possible to determine whether they did this to help their country or a “friendly” country win. However, this behavior was also evident in the following years in which this rating system was applied (1971 to 1973).

In order to open the Eurovision Song Contest to new music genres, the rule that only duos or soloists were allowed to perform was lifted. From now on up to 6 musicians for one country were allowed on stage.

Attendees

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC, but not in 1971

The attendance rose to 18 again this year as Malta first attended and the following five countries returned: Finland, Norway, Austria, Portugal and Sweden.

Voting procedure

A new voting procedure has been introduced. Each country sent two jurors to the competition, one over and the other under 25 years of age. The two jurors had to cast their votes publicly. The juries had to give each song points: at least one point, at most five points.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Title (M = music; T = text)	language	translation	Points
01.	03	Monaco	Severine	Un banc, un arbre, une rue M: Jean-Pierre Bourtayre; T: Yves Dessca	French	A bench, a tree, a road	128
02.	06th	Spain	Karina	En un mundo nuevo M: Rafael Trabucchelli; T: Tony Luz	Spanish	In a new world	116
03.	05	BR Germany	Katja Ebstein	This world M: Dieter Zimmermann ; T: Fred Jay	German	-	100
04th	09	United Kingdom	Clodagh Rodgers	Jack in the Box M: John Worsley; T: David Myers	English	Box devil	098
05.	11	Italy	Massimo Ranieri	L'amore è un attimo M: Enrico Polito; T: Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gaetano Savio	Italian	Love is a moment	091
06th	12	Sweden	Family Four	Vita vidder M / T: Håkan Elmquist	Swedish	White expanses	085
06th	14th	Netherlands	Saskia & Serge	De tijd M: Joop Stokkermans; T: Gerrit the Braber	Dutch	The time	085
08th.	17th	Finland	Markku Aro & Koivisto Sisters	Tie uuteen päivään M / T: Rauno Lehtinen	Finnish	Way into a new day	084
09.	15th	Portugal	Tonicha	Menina do alto da serra M: Nuño Nazareth Fernandes; T: José Carlos Ary dos Santos	Portuguese	Hochwallmaiden	083
10.	07th	France	Serge Lama	Un jardin sur la terre M: Alice Dona; T: Henri Dijan, Jacques Demarny	French	A garden on earth	082
11.	13	Ireland	Angela Farrell	One Day Love M / T: Donald Martin, Ita Flynn	English	One day love	079
12.	04th	Switzerland	Peter, Sue & Marc	Les illusions de nos vingt ans M; Peter Reber ; T: Maurice Tézé	French	The illusions of our youth	078
13.	08th	Luxembourg	Monique Melsen	Pomme, pomme, pomme M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Cour	French	Apple, apple, apple	070
14th	10	Belgium	Lily Castel & Jacques Raymond	Goeiemorgen, tomorrow M: Paul Quintens; T: Phil van Cauwenbergh	Dutch	Good morning	068
14th	16	Yugoslavia	Krunoslav Slabinac	Tvoj dječak je tužan M: Ivica Krajač; T: Zvonimir Golob	Croatian	Your boy is sad	068
16.	01	Austria	Marianne Mendt	Music M: Richard Schönherz ; T: Manuel Rigoni	Viennese	-	066
17th	18th	Norway	Hanne Krogh	Lykken he M / T: Arne Bendiksen	Norwegian	luck is	065
18th	02	Malta	Joe Grech	Marija l-Maltija M: Joe Grech; T: Charles Mifsud	Maltese	The Maltese Mary	052

Scoring

Sustaining land		Forgiving country
country	Total	AUT	MLT	MCO	SUI	GER	ESP	FRA	LUX	GBR	BEL	ITA	SWE	IRL	NLD	POR	YUG	FIN	NOR
Austria	066	-	3	5	2	7th	2	3	2	3	3	6th	4th	6th	3	5	4th	3	5
Malta	052	4th	-	2	2	3	5	3	2	3	4th	4th	2	4th	5	2	2	3	2
Monaco	128	4th	5	-	10	10	2	8th	4th	8th	10	4th	10	9	9	8th	10	7th	10
Switzerland	078	5	5	4th	-	6th	2	6th	2	6th	3	7th	4th	5	5	6th	4th	4th	4th
BR Germany	100	6th	5	7th	6th	-	8th	8th	2	6th	7th	6th	6th	5	5	7th	7th	5	4th
Spain	116	4th	8th	10	5	7th	-	10	4th	7th	4th	5	6th	9	6th	7th	7th	9	8th
France	082	3	2	8th	8th	5	5	-	2	5	3	4th	4th	6th	9	5	5	3	5
Luxembourg	070	2	7th	6th	3	2	4th	5	-	6th	3	3	2	5	3	6th	4th	5	4th
United Kingdom	098	4th	8th	8th	6th	5	2	8th	4th	-	8th	3	5	7th	5	7th	6th	6th	6th
Belgium	068	3	2	5	4th	2	2	5	2	6th	-	3	5	4th	6th	6th	3	6th	4th
Italy	091	4th	6th	9	8th	6th	6th	9	2	6th	2	-	7th	6th	2	3	8th	2	5
Sweden	085	7th	4th	4th	9	4th	2	5	2	5	6th	6th	-	3	9	3	6th	4th	6th
Ireland	079	7th	6th	6th	3	4th	5	7th	2	6th	3	6th	2	-	5	4th	5	4th	4th
Netherlands	085	6th	2	6th	5	4th	5	7th	2	5	2	2	6th	5	-	9	5	6th	8th
Portugal	083	4th	3	6th	2	5	10	8th	5	6th	4th	4th	2	3	5	-	6th	5	5
Yugoslavia	068	6th	2	4th	2	7th	6th	6th	2	3	2	5	2	5	4th	4th	-	3	5
Finland	084	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	3	4th	2	10	10	2	4th	6th	3	8th	6th	-	6th
Norway	065	3	3	6th	4th	2	2	5	2	7th	6th	2	2	7th	2	5	4th	3	-

* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

• Eurovision.tv
• Eurovision.de
• diggiloo.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Feddersen: A song can be a bridge . 1st edition. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09350-7 . P. 116.