{"id":317183,"date":"2025-12-15T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317183\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:42:15","slug":"%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%b9-austria-vienna-calling-wer-singt-fur-osterreich-participants-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317183\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9 Austria: Vienna Calling \u2013 Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich? Participants Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORF, the Austrian national broadcaster, has revealed the 12 artists that will compete in Vienna Calling \u2013 Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?.<\/p>\n

The 12 participants in Vienna Calling \u2013 Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?\u00a0(Vienna Calling \u2013 Who will sing for Austria?) were revealed this morning on \u00d63-Wecker on \u00d63 Radio. The entries were selected from over 500 submissions.<\/p>\n

Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz, Director of Programming for ORF, stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cAustria is once again proving its talent and its high standing as a musical nation. The candidates for the national selection are exactly that: courageous, vibrant, and full of diversity. After the intensive preliminary selection by the jury and editorial team, it is now up to our audience to decide who from the top 12 will represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest. Every vote counts \u2013 and for the winners, perhaps the most important journey of their musical lives will begin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Vienna Calling \u2013 Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?\u00a0finalists are:<\/p>\n

Anna-Sophie \u2013 \u201cSuperhuman\u201d
\nBamlak Werner \u2013 \u201cWe Are Not Just One Thing\u201d
\nCosm\u00f3 \u2013 \u201cTanzschein\u201d (Dance license)
\nDavid Kurt \u2013 \u201cPockets Full of Snow\u201d
\nFrevd \u2013 \u201cRiddle\u201d
\nJulia Steen \u2013 \u201cJulia\u201d
\nKayla Krystin \u2013 \u201cI brenn\u201d (I\u2019m burning)
\nLena Schaur \u2013 \u201cPainted Reality\u201d
\nNikotin \u2013 \u201cUnsterblich\u201d (Immortal)
\nPhilip Piller \u2013 \u201cDas Leben ist Kunst\u201d (Life is art)
\nReverend Stomp \u2013 \u201cMescalero Ranger\u201d
\nTamara Flores \u2013 \u201cChingona\u201d (Badass)<\/p>\n

Tamara Flores\u2019 entry \u201cChingona\u201d has already been released<\/a>. The remaining 11 songs will be released at a later date.<\/p>\n

Vienna Calling \u2013 Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich? will take place on February 20 and will be broadcast live on ORF 1 and ORF ON. A combination of jury and public voting will determine who will represent Austria on home ground in Vienna.<\/p>\n

The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will be held in Vienna following the victory of JJ with \u201cWasted Love\u201d. Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest for a third time, having previously won the 1966 and 2014 editions of the contest. Austria received 12 points from eight juries; Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.<\/p>\n

Image source: ORF\/Klaus Titzer | Source: ORF<\/a><\/p>\n

Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest<\/p>\n

Austria debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957. Bob Martin represented the country on their debut but finished in last place, scoring just 3 points. Austria has won the contest three times, the first being in 1966 when Udo J\u00fcrgens performed \u201cMerci, Ch\u00e9rie\u201d. It was 48 years later when Austria won again in 2014, when Conchita Wurst performed \u201cRise Like a Phoenix\u201d, scoring a total of 290 points. Austria\u2019s third win came in 2025, when JJ sang \u201cWasted Love\u201d and scored 436 points. <\/p>\n

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Posted by:Neil Farren<\/p>\n

Neil is from Ireland but has lived in several countries around Europe. He has has been an editor for Eurovoix since May 2017. He has been following the Eurovision Song Contest since 2005 and attended every contest as press since 2019. He also follows other Eurovision contests, such as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which he has watched since the very first edition in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORF, the Austrian national broadcaster, has revealed the 12 artists that will compete in Vienna Calling \u2013 Wer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}