Thomas Forstner

Thomas Forstner (2015)

Thomas Forstner (born December 3, 1969 in Deutsch-Wagram ) is an Austrian singer .

Life

He had his greatest success at the age of 19 at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 in Lausanne with the contribution Nur ein Lied (composed by Dieter Bohlen , text by Joachim Horn-Bernges ). He finished 5th out of 22nd, one of the best Austrian results in the competition. The song reached number 1 in the Austrian charts.

The English version of this song, Song of Love, was a theme song for the episode Das Spiel ist aus from the ZDF crime series Der Alte . The single When the Sun Shines at Night (English version: Don't Say Goodbye Tonight) , also produced by Dieter Bohlen, made it into the top 10 in Austria.

Thomas Forstner competed at the Eurovision Song Contest in Rome in 1991 with the title Venice in the Rain (composed by Robby Musenbichler and Hubert Moser, text by Wolfgang Eltner). With 0 points, he finished last of 22 places.

Forstner married Vanessa Desirée Thun-Hohenstein (* 1967) in October 1991 . In 1995 a daughter was born. In 1998 the marriage ended in divorce.

After a long musical break, several productions followed in different styles, including pop , soul , classical , chill-out , lounge and crossover .

Thomas Forstner is currently working full-time as a software developer. Musically he worked on the live project Nightfall Sessions - A Tribute Lounge .

On September 16, 2009, Thomas Forstner married his long-time partner Bianca Rosenberg from Vienna in Deutsch-Wagram. Since 2017 both have lived in Frantschach-St. Getraud in the Carinthian Lavant Valley.

Publications on phonograms

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Just a song   AT 1 05/15/1989 (14 weeks) When the sun is shining at night   AT 13 December 01, 1989 (10 weeks) Miles Away   AT 9 06/03/1990 (11 weeks) Venice in the rain   AT 5 04/28/1991 (6 weeks)

• 1987: South African Children / South African Children (instrumental) (7 ″ single)
• 1987: She's Always a Lady / It's Not the Way (7 ″ single)
• 1988: Vera / Vera (club version) (7 ″ single)
• 1989: Just one song (CD / 7 ″ / 12 ″ single)
• 1989: When the sun shines at night / Don't Say Goodbye Tonight (CD / 7 ″ / 12 ″ single)
• 1989: Song of Love (CD / 7 ″ / 12 ″ single)
• 1990: V / A: 16 megahits (CD)
• 1990: Miles Away (7 ″ single)
• 1991: Venice in the Rain (CD / 7 ″ single)
• 1993: Strong enough / there again / there again (instrumental) (maxi-CD)
• 1994: Fully caught / What will be / Fully caught (karaoke version) (Maxi-CD)
• 1994: Hautnah (CD album)
• 1995: When the sky burns / Who, like you, loses his dreams / In the 4th dimension (Maxi-CD)
• 2000: You're in the Army Now (pseud. STG77) (CD-Maxi / 12 ″ -Promo) (Austria Place 49)
• 2002: Hello (pseud. Vincent Parker) (CD-Maxi / 12 ″ -Maxi)

Web links

• Look back without anger
• Works by and about Thomas Forstner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Forstner at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Unterkärntner Nachrichten editors and hobby editors (www.unterkaerntner.at): Thomas Forstner. Retrieved March 18, 2020 . 
2. ↑ eurosong.be
3. ↑ news.at
4. ↑ Charts AT