Kiddy Contest

Television broadcast
Original title	Kiddy Contest
Country of production	Austria
Year (s)	since 1995
Production ; company	1995–2011: ORF; ; since 2012: pulse 4 ;
length	approx. 120 minutes
Broadcasting ; cycle	yearly
genre	music
Moderation	Current presenter since 2019: Arabella Kiesbauer ; Former moderators 1995-2006: Elmer Rossnegger ; 2007–2008: Mirjam Weichselbraun ; 2009: Benny Hörtnagl ; 2010–2011: Kati Bellowitsch ; 2012–2014: Arabella Kiesbauer ; 2015–2018 Silvia Schneider ; Co-moderation 1995–1996: Ingrid Riegler; 1997: Rebecca Horner ; 1998-1999: Sandra Pires ; 2000-2001: Enie van de Meiklokjes ; 2002: Anastasia Zampounidis ; 2003: Salka Weber; 2004-2006: Nina Moghaddam ;
First broadcast	November 5, 1995

The Kiddy Contest is an Austrian casting show for children between the ages of 8 and 14 (13 years up to 2016), which was organized annually by ORF from 1995 to 2011 . The show has been on the Austrian private broadcaster Puls 4 since 2012 . The format was invented by the music producers Erwin Kiennast and Norman Weichselbaum .

Every year ten children from Germany, Austria and occasionally Switzerland and South Tyrol compete and sing a current pop hit, for which Norman Weichselbaum has written a new German text. The TV audience determines the winner via voting.

Charisma

The 1996 Kiddy Contest took place on a Saturday morning in November 1996. During the Kiddy Contest in 1995 and 1996, the ORF / Confetti TiVi program “Saturday Game” hosted a semifinals over several weeks in which it was possible to vote between two artists for each title.

In 1997 there was a separate kiddy contest semifinal, which was also shown again for five weeks on Saturdays at the Confetti Tivi. It was moderated by Elmer Rossnegger . From 1998 there were no more semifinals on television, the preselection was made by a jury of experts. In 2015, the semi-final shows were broadcast on television again on the two Saturdays before the final. On both days there were ten children singing in a duet, five of them make it to the final.

In addition to being broadcast on ORF 1, the Kiddy Contest has also been broadcast a number of times on German television and can therefore also be freely received across Europe via the Astra 1 satellite. In the years 2000 to 2002, the ZDF was involved in the show as a co-organizer, which means that half of the participants came from Germany and the show was shown on ZDF at the same time. In 2001 and 2002 it was also broadcast in KiKA . After 2002, the ZDF decided not to take part anymore, which made the Kiddy Contest 2003 a purely Austrian production again.

In 2004, ORF found a new partner again, this time it was the German private broadcaster Super RTL . Nothing changed in the transmission scheme. The cooperation with Super RTL lasted until 2006.

The Kiddy Contest 2007 was again just a single production by ORF. The previous specials in the lunchtime program were replaced by the series “Kiddy Contest - Das Camp”, which was broadcast over several days in the afternoon program of ORF 1. The series documented the stay of the participants in the Kiddy Contest 2007 at Schloss Hof in Lower Austria.

In 2008 the Kiddy Contest was shown again on ORF 1 and Super RTL. The final took place on November 1st, 2008 at 8:15 pm. The moderator was again Mirjam Weichselbraun .

The Kiddy Contest 2009 was recorded on October 31st in the Austria Center Vienna in front of 4,500 fans and broadcast one week later, on November 7th, at 4:45 pm on ORF 1. For the German fan base, the children's channel Nickelodeon broadcast the show one day later. The show was moderated by Benny Hörtnagl , with Daniel Schuhmacher and Mandy Capristo from Monrose as the star guests .

In 2010 the Kiddy Contest with the new presenter Kati Bellowitsch was broadcast live on ORF 1 again, Nickelodeon showed a 60-minute summary a week later.

For the years 2012 to 2015, the private broadcaster Puls 4 secured the rights to the broadcast. The show has been moderated by Silvia Schneider since 2015 . Since 2015, the program has also been broadcast via live stream on the Internet and in the Puls 4 app. Alamande Belfor has been responsible for the choreography since 2017 .

In 2020 the Kiddy Contest was canceled due to the corona pandemic .

Previous winners

year	album	Song and artist	original	Awards in AT
1995	Kiddy Contest Vol. 1	Nursery thief Christina Kramer	Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus
1996	Kiddy Contest Vol. 2	Marina Schweinberger falls in love for the first time	Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet
1997	Kiddy Contest Vol. 3	Anger Manuela Mayer	Only dreamed flowers	gold Sales: +25,000
1998	Kiddy Contest Vol. 4	Just a dream Alexandra Pötzelsberger	Adesso tu Eros Ramazzotti	platinum Sales: +50,000
1999	Kiddy Contest Vol. 5	Friends like us Bernhard Arko & Daniel Pirker	YMCA Village People	platinum Sales: +50,000
2000	Kiddy Contest Vol. 6	Snowboard racers Marco Klemmer & Daniela Vogel	Anton from Tyrol DJ Ötzi	platinum Sales: +50,000
2001	Kiddy Contest Vol. 7	I want a Mandy Grace Capristo ATM	Daylight in Your Eyes No Angels	platinum Sales: +40,000
2002	Kiddy Contest Vol. 8	I want to go to the disco Laura Kästel	Crying at the Discoteque Alcazar	platinum Sales: +40,000
2003	Kiddy Contest Vol. 9	My superstar Nicki Freiberger	We Have a Dream American Idol	platinum Sales: +30,000
2004	Kiddy Contest Vol. 10	Invisible Lisa Aberer	Dragostea din tei O zone	× 3Triple platinum Sales: +90,000
2005	Kiddy Contest Vol. 11	Everyone has a crush on Kim Steiner	Dubi Dam Dam Banaroo	× 2Double platinum + platinum( Video album: Showtime) Sales: +60,000 (Video album: +10,000)
2006	Kiddy Contest Vol. 12	Genie Tanja Kreutmayer	1001 Arabian Nights Ch! Pz	× 2Double platinum Sales: +60,000
2007	Kiddy Contest Vol. 13	Chocoladistan Caroline Juliana Hat	A star (... that bears your name) DJ Ötzi & Nik P.	× 3Triple platinum Sales: +60,000
2008	Kiddy Contest Vol. 14	Planet of the Girls Mira Sophia Ulz	Fever Christina striker	× 3Triple platinum Sales: +60,000
2009	Kiddy Contest Vol. 15	Märchenwald Roman Lochmann & Lara Krause	City of Cassandra Steen & Adel Tawil	× 2Double platinum Sales: +40,000
2010	Kiddy Contest Vol. 16	More pocket money, please, Dominik step eater	What Do You Want from Me Adam Lambert	× 2Double platinum Sales: +40,000
2011	Kiddy Contest Vol. 17	Vegetable crisis Celina Müllner	Higher Taio Cruz & Kylie Minogue	× 2Double platinum Sales: +40,000
2012	Kiddy Contest Vol. 18	The water rats Michelle Idlhammer	Call Me Maybe Carly Rae Jepsen	platinum Sales: +20,000
2013	Kiddy Contest Vol. 19	The cot prince Lisa Mikolaschek	I Couldn't Care Less Leslie Clio	platinum Sales: +15,000
2014	Kiddy Contest Vol. 20	Eyes on Lena Tirler	Am I Wrong Nico & Vinz	platinum Sales: +15,000
2015	Kiddy Contest Vol. 21	A thousand selfies by Alinah Hofstätter	Ain't Nobody Felix Jaehn ft. Jasmine Thompson	platinum Sales: +15,000
2016	Kiddy Contest Vol. 22	I'd rather stay single Christian Steger	Stitches Shawn Mendes	platinum Sales: +15,000
2017	Kiddy Contest Vol. 23	Where is the Christ Child hiding? Ina Hofer	Music be Wincent Weiss	gold Sales: +7,500
2018	Kiddy Contest Vol. 24	Lederhosen rapper Josef Fankhauser	Lie to me Mikolas Josef	gold Sales: +7,500
2019	Kiddy Contest Vol. 25	"The nerd" Katharina Felzmann	Unforgettable Nico Santos

Kiddy Contest Live (Tour)

From 2006 to 2008 the finalists also went on tour in Austria. The “Kiddy Contest Live” usually took place on the weekend before Christmas in three to four Austrian cities. In 2008 there were a total of 20,000 fans. Also since 2008 the Kiddy Contest Tour has been accompanied by a multimedia team as a video tour diary (in cooperation with the Kinder- Kurier and the online media magazine Medieninsider.at). In 2010, the finalists were seen in several live shows in front of around 12,000 spectators in Linz, Salzburg, Vienna and Graz. Charlee was the star guest in Vienna .

Awards

1998 Award for services to music promotion in Austria to Erwin Kiennast and Norman Weichselbaum by the then Federal Chancellor Viktor Klima
2015 Award in gold for services to the Republic of Austria for Erwin Kiennast and Norman Weichselbaum on June 24th on behalf of Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Puls 4 signs a two-year contract for "Kiddy Contest" - derStandard.at
↑ Erwin Kiennast: "Nostalgia gene not very pronounced" . ( noen.at [accessed on November 3, 2017]).
↑ Gold / platinum database Austria
^ Institute for Art and Music History Research: Kiddy Contest. 2002, accessed January 31, 2019 .
↑ Kiddy Contest: Award Kiddy Contest by Viktor Klima. In: Kiddy Contest. 1998, accessed January 31, 2019 .
^ Decoration of Honor in Gold for Erwin and Norman | KIDDY CONTEST. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
↑ The father of the "Kiddy Contest". June 27, 2015, accessed January 31, 2019 .

[1] Puls 4 signs a two-year contract for "Kiddy Contest" - derStandard.at

[2] Erwin Kiennast: "Nostalgia gene not very pronounced" . ( noen.at [accessed on November 3, 2017]).

[3] Gold / platinum database Austria

[4] Institute for Art and Music History Research: Kiddy Contest. 2002, accessed January 31, 2019 .

[5] Kiddy Contest: Award Kiddy Contest by Viktor Klima. In: Kiddy Contest. 1998, accessed January 31, 2019 .

[6] Decoration of Honor in Gold for Erwin and Norman | KIDDY CONTEST. Accessed January 31, 2019 .

[7] The father of the "Kiddy Contest". June 27, 2015, accessed January 31, 2019 .