Song.Null.Drei was the national final that selected Austria's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2003. The competition took place on 14 March 2003 at the ORF Theater in Vienna, hosted by Gabriela Dorschner and DJ Ötzi and broadcast on ORF 1.[1]
Format[]
Ten songs competed in the competition where the winner was selected by public voting. Viewers were able to vote via telephone or SMS and the votes submitted by male and female voters both created an overall ranking from which points from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) were distributed. After the combination of both scores, the entry with the highest number of points was selected as the winner.[2]
Competing entries[]
The ten competing artists were nominated by record companies.[3] The ten artists selected to compete in the national final were revealed on 25 February 2003 and among the competing artists, Petra Frey previously represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994.[4]
Peter Moritz, Michael Willmann, Helmut Eibisberger, Klaus Herunter, René Pichler, Jasmin Holzmann
Final[]
The televised final took place on 14 March 2003. Ten songs competed and public televoting split between male and female voters selected "Weil der Mensch zählt" performed by Alf Poier as the winner.[5][6]
On the night of the contest, Poier sang 2nd, following Iceland and preceding Ireland. At the close of the voting, his song had received 101 points, placing 6th in a field of 26.[7] Since Austria placed in the top 10, they automatically qualified to compete in the final of the 2004 Contest.[citation needed]
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