Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Country	Austria
National selection
Selection process	Song.Null.Fünf
Selection date(s)	25 February 2005
Selected entrant	Global Kryner
Selected song	"Y así"
Finals performance
Semi-final result	Failed to qualify (21st, 30 points)
Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2004 • 2005 • 2007►

The Austrian pre-selection "song.null.fünf" was held on 25 February at the ORF TV Studios in Vienna, hosted by Mirjam Weichselbraun and Christian Clerici. The winner was chosen by regional televoting and mobile phone voting. By a four-point margin, Global Kryner was chosen over 2003 Austrian representative, Alf Poier, with the song "Y así". The song is an Austrian folk tune with yodeling, sung in English and Spanish. The song was written by Christof Spörk and composed by Christof Spörk and Edi Köhldorfer.

Global Kryner is an Austrian folk group consisting of Sabine Stieger on vocals, Karl Rossmann on trumpet, Christof Spörk on clarinet, Anton Sauprügl on accordion, Edi Köhldorfer on guitar and Sebastian Fuchsberger on trombone. Global Kryner had introduced themselves in August 2004 by playing a midnight gig at the Munich Lustspielhaus before a curious audience of just 100 people. In 2004, their first album made it into the Austrian top 40.

This Austrian pre-selection was very controversial for being unfair because every one of the nine federal states of Austria entered an equivalent voting (a maximum of points) together with the "mobile phone votings" forming a tenth entry. When the results were eventually published, mobile phone votings had more voters than any federal state else, but gave just as many points as the voters from e.g. Vorarlberg did. Actual winner Alf Poier was annoyed about this way of unfairness.

The spokesperson who revealed Austria's votes for other countries was Dodo Roscic, an ORF host who had been the Austrian spokesperson since the 1999 contest.^[1]

"Song.Null.Fünf"

At Eurovision

Because Austria placed 21st at the 2004 contest,Global.Kryner were forced to compete in the Eurovision semi-final.They performed first preceding Lithuania came 21st with 30 points.Therefore,Austria will have to compete in the semi-final again in ESC 2006.

Points awarded by Austria

Semi-final 12 points  Croatia 10 points  Romania 8 points  Moldova 7 points  Hungary 6 points  Denmark 5 points  Poland 4 points  Macedonia 3 points  Slovenia 2 points  Norway 1 point   Switzerland

Final 12 points  Serbia and Montenegro 10 points  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 points  Croatia 7 points  Turkey 6 points  Romania 5 points  Malta 4 points  Greece 3 points  Albania 2 points  Moldova 1 point  Israel

References

External links

• Austrian National Final page