Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
Eurovision Song Contest 2003 | ||||
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Country | Austria | |||
National selection | ||||
Selection process | Song.Null.Drei | |||
Selection date(s) | 14 March 2003 | |||
Selected entrant | Alf Poier | |||
Selected song | "Weil der Mensch zählt" | |||
Selected songwriter(s) | Alf Poier | |||
Finals performance | ||||
Final result | 6th, 101 points | |||
Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Austria was represented by Alf Poier in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "Weil der Mensch zählt".
Before Eurovision[]
Song.Null.Drei[]
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]
Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
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Aalysha | "Daydream" | Alexander Kahr, Robert Pfluger |
Alf Poier | "Weil der Mensch zählt" | Alf Poier |
Eyeland | "We Will Survive" | Mark Robert Thomas, Robert Cheese, Marlies Jesernik, Gottfried Jesernik, Nino Holm |
J.O.B. | "All Fingers and Thumbs" | Alexander Kahr, Robert Pfluger |
Kostrouch | "Frei sein" | Roman Kostrouch |
Patricia | "Don't Wanna Be" | Alexander Kahr, Robert Pfluger |
Petra Frey | "This Night Should Never End" | Peter Starkowski, Tom Fairchild |
Sabine Neibersch | "Dreaming of You" | Susanne Prammerdorfer, Peter Prammerdorfer |
Substitute | "Girls of Summer" | Christine Nachbauer |
Xtraordinary | "Separate Ways" | 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]
Draw | Artist | Song | Public Vote | Place | ||
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Male | Female | Total | ||||
1 | Substitute | "Girls of Summer" | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
2 | Kostrouch | "Frei sein" | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
3 | Xtraordinary | "Separate Ways" | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 |
4 | Eyeland | "We Will Survive" | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
5 | Patricia | "Don't Wanna Be" | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 |
6 | Alf Poier | "Weil der Mensch zählt" | 10 | 10 | 20 | 1 |
7 | Petra Frey | "This Night Should Never End" | 9 | 9 | 18 | 2 |
8 | J.O.B. | "All Fingers and Thumbs" | 8 | 8 | 16 | 3 |
9 | Sabine Neibersch | "Dreaming of You" | 6 | 7 | 13 | 4 |
10 | Aalysha | "Daydream" | 7 | 6 | 13 | 4 |
At Eurovision[]
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]
Voting[]
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References[]
- ^ "Österreich entscheidet sich heute". Der Standard (in German). 14 March 2003. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Österreichs "song.null.drei"". Der Standard (in German). 3 March 2003. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Rau, Oliver (11 January 2003). "Austrian final to be broadcast 14th March". Esctoday. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ "Hitradio Ö3 präsentiert die zehn Teilnehmer für "song.null.drei"". ORF (in German). 27 February 2003. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "AUSTRIAN NATIONAL FINAL 2003". Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ^ "PRESELECCIONES 2003: AUSTRIA E IRLANDA". eurovision-spain.com (in Spanish). 3 December 2020. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ "Final of Riga 2003". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Results of the Final of Riga 2003". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
External links[]
- Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
- 2003 in Austrian television