{"id":448309,"date":"2025-12-15T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/448309\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:04:12","slug":"wer-singt-fur-osterreich-lineup-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/448309\/","title":{"rendered":"Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich? \u2013 Lineup announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austrian broadcaster ORF has just revealed the lineup for Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than 500 songs have been submitted for “Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?” 12 acts have been selected by Austrian national broadcaster ORF, to compete in the selection show in February? One of them will represent Austria on home soil at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna.<\/p>\n

Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich? <\/a><\/p>\n

Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?<\/a> takes place on Friday 20 February 2026 and will be hosted by Alice Tumler and Ces\u00e1r Sampson.<\/p>\n

\"Austria<\/p>\n

Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?All about Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

ORF program manager Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz says:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Austria once again proves its talent and its high importance as a country of music. The candidates for the final selection are exactly that: brave, colorful and full of diversity. After the intensive pre-selection by the jury and editorial staff, it is now in the hands of our audience who represents Austria.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Every voice counts and perhaps the most important journey of their musical life begins for the winners.<\/p>\n

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

Austria has been participating in the Eurovision Song Contest 57 times since its debut in 1957<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Austria 2018: Ces\u00e1r Sampson – “Nobody But You”<\/p>\n

They have won the contest three times:<\/p>\n

They came in last eight times (zero points in 1962<\/a>, 1988<\/a>, 1991<\/a> and 2015<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Austria 2018: Ces\u00e1r Sampson – “Nobody But You”<\/p>\n

Since the introduction of the Semi-finals in 2004, Austria has qualified for the Grand Final 10 out of 17 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austrian broadcaster ORF has just revealed the lineup for Wer singt f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich?. More than 500 songs have…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":448310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[110,171,132542,27200,206153,206151,173,67,132,68,206152],"class_list":{"0":"post-448309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-esc","11":"tag-eurovision","12":"tag-national-selections","13":"tag-orf","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-vienna-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115722785012033903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}