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"Keine mauern mehr" - Simone
"About the same time last year nobody thought that our move for freedom would jump ahead"
The Austrian final was held on March 15th in Studio Z1 of the ORF-Zentrum in Vienna, hosted by Lizzi Engstler. The winner was chosen by televoting (50%) & an "expert" jury (50%). Duett were subsequently disqualified when it was discovered that they had already taken part in the 1988 German semi-final with "Das beste".
| 1 | Freiheit | Freedom | Alex | 16.3% |
7th |
| 2 | Papagena | Papagena | Gruppe Papageno | 25.4% |
3rd |
| 3 | Mit dir geh'n | To go with you | Stefanie Pascal | 12.3% |
9th |
| 4 | Ein kleiner stern | A little star | Nika | 16.4% |
6th |
| 5 | Tausend feuer sind in mir | A thousand fires are inside me | Eugene Price | 16.7% |
5th |
| 6 | So ein wunderschönes leben | Such a wonderful life | Waterloo | 23.8% |
4th |
| 7 | Für kinder sieht das anders aus | To children it looks different | Erwin Bros | 12.7% |
8th |
| 8 | Das beste | The best | Duett | 39.3% |
1st |
| 9 | Sandy | Sandy | Roxy | 9.9% |
10th |
| 10 | Keine mauern mehr | No more walls | Simone | 27.6% |
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Simone came 10th at the ESC. Amongst Nika & Simone's backing singers was Marc Berry who represented Austria at ESC 1980 as a member of the group 'Blue Danube'. Waterloo represented Austria at ESC 1976. Erwin Bros represented Austria at ESC 1978 in the group 'Springtime'.