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Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest
Participating broadcaster	Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Participation summary
Appearances	56 (49 finals)
First appearance	1957
Highest placement	1st: 1966, 2014
Host	1967, 2015
Participation history 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
External links
Austria's page at Eurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Austria has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 56 times since its debut in 1957. The country has won twice, in 1966 and 2014, and such it holds the record for the longest gap between consecutive wins — 48 years. The Austrian participant broadcaster in the contest is Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF). Vienna was the host city on both of the occasions that the contest was held in Austria, in 1967 and 2015.

Having finished sixth at the 1964 contest and fourth in 1965, Udo Jürgens won at his third attempt in 1966 with the song "Merci, Chérie". This was Austria's only top three result of the 20th century. Austria won again in 2014, with "Rise Like a Phoenix" by Conchita Wurst. Austria has finished last in the contest final seven times (1957, 1961, 1962, 1979, 1984, 1988, and 1991) and finished last in the semi-final in 2012. "Nobody but You" by Cesár Sampson achieved Austria's eighth top five result and second-best result of the 21st century at the 2018 contest, finishing third.

History

Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) is a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), thus eligible to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Austria.

ORF finished last at its debut in the contest in 1957, before Liane Augustin gave the country the first of its eight top five results in 1958, with fifth. Having finished sixth in 1964 and fourth in 1965, Udo Jürgens won the contest at his third attempt in 1966. This would be Austria's only top three result of 20th century. The country's best result over the next 46 years (1967–2013) would be fifth place, which it achieved with The Milestones in 1972, Waterloo and Robinson in 1976 and Thomas Forstner in 1989. Austria has finished last in the final a total of seven times, in 1957, 1961, 1962, 1979, 1984, 1988, 1991. The country also finished last in the semi-final in 2012. Austria's best result of the 1990s was four tenth-place finishes, in 1990, 1992, 1996 and 1999. Austria's best result of the 2000s was Alf Poier's sixth-place in 2003, which was Austria's best placement since 1989.

After a three-year absence, ORF announced on 28 July 2010 that Austria would return to the contest in 2011, where the country reached the final for the first time since 2004, finishing 18th.

Austria achieved its second victory in the contest at the 2014 contest, with Conchita Wurst winning with 290 points. In a complete reversal of fortunes in 2015, following a tie-break rule Austria was placed 26th and scored nul points along with Germany (27th), they became the first countries since the United Kingdom in 2003 to score nul points at the final. Because of this, Austria became the first host country to receive nul points. Austria qualified for the final for the next three years, finishing 13th in 2016, 16th in 2017 and in 2018, when "Nobody but You" by Cesár Sampson finished third. The country's fortunes were once again reversed afterwards, with Paenda (2019), Vincent Bueno (2021) and Lumix feat. Pia Maria (2022) all failing to qualify. Teya and Salena returned Austria to the final in 2023, finishing 15th.

Absences

Austria has opted out of participation in several contests. The first of these was the 1969 contest, which was staged in Madrid. As Spain was ruled at that time by Francisco Franco, Austria chose to boycott the contest. Contest historian John Kennedy O'Connor points out, however, that Austria had given Spain two points in the previous event and since Spain only won by one point, the political protest was seen as disingenuous.

The following year, Austria was again absent. This was due to the unprecedented result in 1969 in which four songs tied for first place, a result which prompted several other countries to opt out as well.

From 1973 to 1975, Austria stayed away as well. The exact reason for this is unclear, however the scoring system in use at one of these contests, which allowed all entrants a guaranteed number of points, may have been a factor.

The country was ineligible to compete in 1998 and 2001, as it had not achieved sufficiently high placings in the five previous years.

Prior to the 2006 contest, Austria announced that it would not enter a performer in protest at their poor results in previous years, arguing that the musical talent of the performers was no longer the determining factor in success at the event. The country returned for the 2007 contest in Helsinki, but came second to last in the semi-final. National broadcaster ORF cited the 2007 result, as well as declining interest in the contest among Austrian viewers, as the reason Austria would not return to the contest in 2008. ORF programme director Wolfgang Lorenz also hinted that Austria may withdraw from the contest indefinitely, stating "ORF has no desire to send more talent out of Austria to a competition where they have no chances...Should the situation change, we'll be happy to take part again". Despite withdrawing, the final of the 2008 contest was shown on ORF.

In 2008, the EBU introduced two semi-finals to the contest, hoping that spreading countries out by random draw would prevent the kind of bloc voting that had warded Austria off. Additionally, juries were reintroduced to determine 50% of each country's result in 2009 (albeit not in the semi-finals, in which all but one of the qualifiers were decided entirely by televote). However, Edgar Böhm, director of entertainment for ORF, said that the semi-final format "still incorporates a mix of countries who will be politically favoured in the voting process" and "that, unless a clear guideline as to how the semifinals are organised is made by the EBU, Austria will not be taking part in Moscow 2009". ORF decided not to participate in the 2009 contest, but did broadcast the final as in 2008. The EBU announced that they would work harder to bring Austria back to the contest in 2010, along with former participants Monaco and Italy. It was, however, confirmed that Austria would not participate in the 2010 contest in Oslo. In July 2010, the chairman of ORF, Alexander Wrabetz, stated that Austria would return for the 2011 contest, due to it being held in its neighbour Germany. In 2011, Austria reached the final for the first time since 2004.

Participation overview

Hostings

Year	Location	Venue	Presenter	Photo
1967	Vienna	Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg	Erica Vaal
2015		Wiener Stadthalle	Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler, Arabella Kiesbauer and Conchita Wurst

Awards

Marcel Bezençon Awards

Year	Category	Song	Performer(s)	Composer(s)	Host city	Ref.
2014	Press Award	"Rise Like a Phoenix"	Conchita Wurst	Charley Mason, Joey Patulka, Ali Zuckowski, Julian Maas	Copenhagen

Related involvement

Conductors

Year	Conductor	Musical Director	Notes	Ref.
1957	Carl de Groof	N/A
1958	Willy Fantel
1959	Franck Pourcel
1960	Robert Stolz
1961	Franck Pourcel
1962	Bruno Uher
1963	Erwin Halletz
1964	Johannes Fehring
1965	Gianni Ferrio
1966	Hans Hammerschmid
1967	Johannes Fehring
1968	Robert Opratko	N/A
1971
1972	Erich Kleinschuster
1976
1977	Christian Kolonovits
1978	Richard Oesterreicher
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988	Harald Neuwirth
1989	No conductor
1990	Richard Oesterreicher
1991
1992	Leon Ives
1993	Christian Kolonovits
1994	Hermann Weindorf
1995	Michael F. Kienzl
1996	Mischa W. Krausz
1997	No conductor

Heads of delegation

Commentators and spokespersons

Photo gallery

• Liane Augustin performing "Die ganze Welt braucht Liebe" in Hilversum (1958)
• Udo Jürgens performing "Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen" in Naples (1965)
• Postcard for Blue Danube in The Hague (1980)
• Tie Break performing "Du bist" in Istanbul (2004)
• Eric Papilaya performing "Get a Life – Get Alive" in Helsinki (2007)
• Nadine Beiler in Düsseldorf (2011)
• Natália Kelly performing "Shine" in Malmö (2013)
• Conchita Wurst performing "Rise Like a Phoenix" in Copenhagen (2014)
• The Makemakes performing "I Am Yours" in Vienna (2015)
• Zoë performing "Loin d'ici" in Stockholm (2016)
• Nathan Trent performing "Running on Air" in Kyiv (2017)
• Cesár Sampson performing "Nobody but You" in Lisbon (2018)
• Paenda performing "Limits" in Tel Aviv (2019)
• Lumix and Pia Maria performing "Halo" in Turin (2022)
• Teya and Salena performing "Who the Hell Is Edgar?" in Liverpool (2023)
• Kaleen performing "We Will Rave" in Malmö (2024)

See also

• Austria in Eurovision Choir – A competition organised by the EBU for non-professional choirs.
• Austria in the Eurovision Dance Contest – Dance version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Austria in the Eurovision Young Dancers – A competition organised by the EBU for younger dancers aged between 16 and 21.
• Austria in the Eurovision Young Musicians – A competition organised by the EBU for musicians aged 18 years and younger.

Notes and references

Notes

1. Specifically Viennese German
2. Specifically Vorarlbergisch, a High Alemannic dialect
3. Specifically Styrian, a Southern Bavarian dialect
4. According to the then-Eurovision rules, the top ten non-Big Four countries from the previous year along with the Big Four automatically qualified for the Grand Final without having to compete in semi-finals. For example, if Germany and France placed inside the top ten, the 11th and 12th spots were advanced to next year's Grand Final along with all countries ranked in the top ten.
5. Specifically Mühlviertlerisch, a Central Bavarian dialect spoken in Upper Austria
6. The 2020 contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
7. All conductors are of Austrian nationality unless otherwise noted.
8. Host conductor
9. Host conductor
10. Host conductor

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• Roxburgh, Gordon (2020). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. Four: The 1990s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84583-163-9.

External links

• Independent Eurovision Song Contest site from Austria
• Lyrics for all Austrian entries
• Points to and from Austria eurovisioncovers.co.uk

• Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest