It’s not often that I get to write about the Eurovision Song Contest, even less so in Oberursel. But this Wednesday saw the premiere of a musical comedy featuring no less than 27 songs from previous years of the contest, sung live and outdoors in the town.
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Petra Oho, Christian Kerkhoff, Susanne Anders and Klaus Heindl performing “Making Your Mind Up”
When I was studying in Birmingham, there was always a rumour going around that if the UK ever won the Eurovision Song Contest, the city would be the host for the following year.
Of course, the UK never did win during those years, but I had hardly moved to Germany when Katrina and the Waves did indeed bring the contest to Birmingham, and I had to watch it with a German commentary.
So when Germany won the contest last year I was rather hoping that Frankfurt would get be on the shortlist of contenders for the 2011 competition. [Read more…]
Within the past half hour Germany has won the 55th Eurovision Song Contest with a song called “Satellite” and performed by a previously unknown artist – “Lena”.
Germany picked up points from most of the countries voting, so even though many gave 12 points to their traditional neighbouring recipients, eventually they could not be caught.
German television has shown live scenes from Hamburg with a crowed of 70,000 people celebrating the win.
Here is the winning song:
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