Miss Europe
Miss Europe is an annual beauty pageant for unmarried women, in which candidates from Europe as well as from Armenia, Georgia, Israel and Cyprus take part. Before 1945 there were also applicants from the French possessions at the time on the Mediterranean, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria-Lebanon.
A distinction is made between several competitions:
Competitions before World War II
In 1927 a one-time competition was held. It was hosted by Fanamet , a European distribution consortium of Paramount . The company offered its films in twelve European countries, thus promoting itself. According to most Internet publications, the competition took place in Berlin, after the winner was presented at a ball in the Vienna Sofiensaal . The prize was the leading role in a Hollywood flick directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau . When the twelve-person jury could not decide between the ten candidates, Murnau was called in Hollywood. He decided that test recordings should be made of all candidates and sent to him that the winner would eventually play in his film. A few weeks later he chose Štefica Vidačić. However, the film project was never realized. As compensation, she received a fee of 100 US dollars per week for a year .
The first continuous competition was launched with the founding of the Comité pour l'election de Miss Europe in 1928 by the French journalist Maurice de Waleffe (1874-1946). He had previously founded the competition for Miss France . This Miss Europe competition took place for the first time in 1929. The candidates for the premiere were selected in their countries of origin with the participation of major newspapers or illustrated magazines: Bulgaria: Zora, Denmark: BT , Germany: 8 a.m.-Abendblatt , England and Ireland: Daily Mail , France: Le Journal (published by Waleffe) , Greece: Elefteron Vima, Holland: Het Leven, Italy: Novo Italia, Yugoslavia: Vrémé, Austria: Neues Wiener Tagblatt , Poland: Kurier Czerwony, Romania: Universul , (Exile-) Russia: La Russie illustrée (Иллюстрированная Россия), Switzerland : Le Genevois, Spain: ABC , Hungary: Színházi élet.
This competition took place mostly in France (or its possessions) and ended with the Second World War . Participation had already declined before that, as various states prohibited beauty competitions with authoritarian governments and also banned their citizens from participating in the Miss Europe election. For example, the last national contest before the war took place in Estonia in 1932, in Germany in 1933, in Spain in 1935 and in Poland in 1937. Fascist Italy was an exception .
Competitions after 1945
After the war and the death of de Waleffe, a new organization emerged in France: the Mondial Events Organization (MEO), which has carried out the competition ever since. The founders were Roger Zeiler and Claude Berr . Berr died in 1981, and in 2003 Roger Zeiler sold the license to Endemol , one of the largest TV production companies. The last MEO competition was in 2002.
The event locations and countries have changed since 1948. Elections were also held on the very edge of Europe and outside the continent, several times in Beirut (Lebanon), in 1968 in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, later Zaire), in 1969 in Rabat (Morocco) and in 1991 in Dakar (Senegal). The elections, which had been announced for Moscow in 2007 and Beirut in 2008 and 2009, did not take place. After that, nothing more was heard of this competition.
The title holders of the national licensees are qualified to participate. For Germany, the last (until 2006) was not the Miss Germany the Miss Germany Corporation - MGC , but the Miss Germany of MGO - Committee Miss Germany .
In 2016 this competition was "revived" by a Miss Europe Organization based in London, later Edinburgh. Apparently there is a connection to the previous organizer: Photos on the Internet show that the winner wore the same crown (tiara / diadem) as her three predecessors.
A competition of the same name is (apparently also by the organizer) only poorly documented. The winners were initially called Miss Europe (for 1963 and 1973 by the inscription on the winner's sashes), later (also) Miss Europe , Miss Europe International , around 1986/87 Queen of Europe . The associated organization ( Comité Officiel et International Miss Europe ) was founded in 1950 by Jean Raibaut in Paris. The seat was later moved to Marseille. The first competition took place in Palermo on September 30, 1951. In 1998 Raibaut commissioned the Tony Corrieri Management in Messina (Sicily) with the implementation of the events - initially for 5 years. In 2000 the Comité Officiel was sued by the competitor organizer MEO (see above) to no longer use the name Miss Europe . The competition was held for the last time in 2002.
The winners
Miss Europe 1927-1938
Carried out in 1927 by the Fanamet , 1929–1938 by the Comité pour l'election de Miss Europe .
year | date | Surname | country | Place of choice | Applications |
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1927 | February 5th | Štefica Vidačić | Yugoslavia | Vienna , Austria | 10 |
1928 | not carried out | ||||
1929 | February 7th | Böske Simon | Hungary | Paris , France | 18th |
1930 | February 5th | Alice Diplarakou | Greece | Paris , France | 19th |
1931 | February 5th | Jeanne Juilla | France | Paris , France | 16 |
1932 | February 12th | Aase Clausen | Denmark | Nice , France | 15th |
1933 | May 27th | Tatiana Maslowa A | Russia | Madrid , Spain | 14th |
1934 | the 9th of September | Ester Toivonen | Finland | Hastings , UK | 16 |
1935 | July 6th | Alicia Navarro | Spain | Torquay , UK | 15th |
1936 | 30th of October | Antonia Arques B | Spain | Tunis , Tunisia | 15th |
1937 | October 24th | Britta Wikström | Finland | Constantine , Algeria | 10 |
1938 | September 10 | Sirkka saloons | Finland | Copenhagen , Denmark | 12 |
Miss Europe from 1948
From 1948 carried out by the Mondial Events Organization (MEO) , 2003-2006 probably by Endemol . In 2016 the organizer was a Miss Europe Organization based in London.
Miss Europe, Miss Europe, Miss Europe International
From 1951 carried out by the Comité Officiel et International Miss Europe .
year | date | Surname | country | Place of choice | Applications |
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1951 | 30. September | Jacqueline Genton X | Switzerland | Palermo , Italy | 7th |
1952 | September 22 | Judy Breen | United Kingdom | Amsterdam , Netherlands | 10 |
1953 | Sylviane Carpentier | France | |||
1954-56 | |||||
1957 | July | Ingrid Weiss (Ingrid Neiss) | BR Germany | Paris , France | |
1958 | Evelyne Ricket | France | Amiens , France | 8th | |
1959 | 3rd of June | Sophie d'Estrade | France | Meaux , France | |
1960-66 | |||||
1967 | Berrit Kvorning | Denmark | |||
1968 | Regina Koeppen | BR Germany | |||
1969 | |||||
1970 | Maria Korner (grains?) | BR Germany | Nice , France | ||
1971 | September 2nd | Laurence Vallée | France | Florence , Italy | |
1972 | Ingeborg Sørensen | Norway | |||
1973 | June 24th | Diana Scapolan | Italy | Barcelona , Spain | 16 |
1974 | 26th of April | Wencke standing | Norway | Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Spain | 19th |
1975 | May | Vivianne Van Der Cauter | Belgium | Monaco | 19th |
1976 | May | Maria Teresa Maldonado Valle | Spain | Andorra | 21st |
1977 | |||||
1978 | September 11 | Barbara Meefs | Netherlands | Reggio nell'Emilia , Italy | 22nd |
1979-81 | |||||
1982 | February | Athens , Greece | |||
1983 | |||||
1984 | December 14th | Trine Mørk | Norway | Vienna , Austria | 19th |
1985 | not carried out | ||||
1986 | February 28 | Rachel Brun Y | Sweden | Valletta , Malta | 24 |
1987 | May 27th | Frankfurt am Main , FR Germany | 16 | ||
1988-91 | |||||
1992 | September 27th | Yolanda Marcos Gonzales | Spain | Catania , Italy | 12 |
1993-95 | |||||
1996 | 4th of October | Mimmi Gunnarsson Z | Sweden | Izmir , Turkey | 30th |
Jenni Rautawaara | Finland | ||||
1997 | |||||
1998 | Nataša Spasojević | Yugoslavia | |||
1999 | September 8th | Anna Maria Tudorache | Romania | Taormina , Italy | 34 |
2000 | not carried out | ||||
2001 | called off | (planned: Taormina , Italy ) | |||
2002 | May 19th | Amandine Hatzithomas | Greece | Warsaw , Poland | 48 from 31 countries |
Competitions with similar names
- Miss Europe World
- Miss Europe Continental
- Miss European
- Miss European Union
- Queen of Europe
- Miss Regina d'Europa: The competition took place from 2002 to 2005. The organization was based in Italy. Although the event has been described as an international competition , it seems that mostly Italian candidates have participated. There has been no evidence of an event since 2006, and the website of the former organizers (at the latest) has been otherwise occupied since the turn of the year 2007/08.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefanie Job: The neglected muse. Biography of the novel of the film musician and UFA general music director Willy Schmidt-Gentner. Frieling, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89009-804-5 , pp. 48-50.
- ^ Pageantopolis ( memento of October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ The MEO website was still online in 2006, but showed the result of 2002 until the end: Mondial Events Organization (MEO) ( Memento from April 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The unlabeled portrait photos under the caption show Zsuzsanna Laky (2003, center), Shermine Shahrivar (2005, left) and Alexandra Rosenfeld (2006, right): Entry page ( Memento from June 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Miss Europ a at Pageantopolis ( Memento from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ newsru.co.il ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 15th March 2016
- ↑ Miss Europe World
- ↑ Miss Europe Continental
- ↑ Miss European
- ↑ Miss European Union ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Competition 1929–1938 at Pageantopolis ( Memento from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Miss Europe 1948–1959 at Pageantopolis
- Miss Europe 1960–1969 at Pageantopolis
- Miss Europe 1970–1979 at Pageantopolis
- Miss Europe 1980–1989 at Pageantopolis
- Miss Europe 1990–1999 at Pageantopolis
- Miss Europe 2000-2006 at Pageantopolis
- Miss Europe (lists of participants by country) at Pageantopolis
- Miss Europ e at Pageantopolis ( Memento from December 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Miss Europ a at Pageantopolis ( Memento from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Mondial Events Organization (MEO) ( Memento from February 8, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- Miss Europe Organization 2016 ( Memento from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Current website of the Miss Europe Organization