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Eurovision Song Contest 1983
Dates
Final23 April 1983
Host
VenueRudi-Sedlmayer-Halle
Munich, West Germany
Presenter(s)Marlene Charell
Musical directorDieter Reith
Directed byRainer Bertram
Executive supervisorFrank Naef
Executive producer
  • Christian Hayer
  • Günther Lebram
Host broadcasterArbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD)
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/munich-1983 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries20
Debuting countriesNone
Returning countries
Non-returning countries Ireland
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         Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1983
Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song Luxembourg
"Si la vie est cadeau"
1982 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1984

The Eurovision Song Contest 1983 was the 28th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Munich, West Germany, following the country's victory at the 1982 contest with the song "Ein bißchen Frieden" by Nicole. Although this was Germany's first victory, 1983 was the second time Germany had hosted the contest, having previously done so in 1957. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) on behalf of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD), the contest was held at the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle on 23 April 1983 and was hosted by German dancer Marlene Charell.

Twenty countries took part this year, with France, Greece and Italy all returning this year, while Ireland decided not to participate.

The winner was Luxembourg with the song "Si la vie est cadeau" by Corinne Hermes, which equalled the record of 5 victories set by France in 1977. This record would in turn be beaten by Ireland in 1994. It was also the second year in a row where the winning entry was performed last on the night and the second year in a row in which Israel won 2nd place. For the third year in a row, at least one country ended up with nul points, and in this case, it happened to be two countries, Spain and Turkey, neither of whom were able to get off the mark.

The 1983 contest was the first to be televised in Australia, via Channel 0/28 (now the Special Broadcasting Service) in Sydney and Melbourne. The contest went on to become popular in Australia, leading to the country's eventual debut at the 60th anniversary contest in 2015.

Location

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Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, Munich – host venue of the 1983 contest.

Munich is a German city and capital of the Bavarian state. Due to this, Munich houses the parliament and state government. Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle was chosen to host the contest.[1] It was initially named after the president of the Bavarian State Sport Association.[1] The hall opened in 1972 to host basketball events for the 1972 Summer Olympics.[1] Due to staging and production necessities, the 5500 seats of the arena had to be reduced to 3,200 for the night of the final and until the 1985 contest, this was the largest arena to host the event.[2][1] From this number, 2000 seats were reserved for the delegations and journalists, 1200 tickets were on sale for the general public.[3] The ticket prices ranged from 20 to 50 DM.[4]

Participating countries

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Eurovision Song Contest 1983 – Participation summaries by country

Twenty countries took part in the contest, with France, Greece, and Italy returning to the competition. On the other hand, Ireland was absent this year for the first time because RTÉ workers were in strike action at the time.[5]

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1983[6][7][8][9]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
 Austria ORF Westend "Hurricane" German
  • Heli Deinboek
  • Heinz Nessizius
  • Peter Vieweger
Richard Oesterreicher
 Belgium BRT Pas de Deux "Rendez-vous" Dutch
  • Paul Peyskens
  • Walter Verdin
Freddy Sunder
 Cyprus CyBC Stavros and Constantina "I agapi akoma zi" (Η αγάπη ακόμα ζει) Greek Stavros Sideras Mihalis Rozakis
 Denmark DR Gry Johansen "Kloden drejer" Danish
  • Lars Christensen
  • Flemming Gernyx
  • Christian Jacobsen
Allan Botschinsky
 Finland YLE Ami Aspelund "Fantasiaa" Finnish
  • Kari Kuusamo
  • Kaisu Liuhala
Ossi Runne
 France Antenne 2 Guy Bonnet "Vivre" French
François Rauber
 Germany BR[a] Hoffmann and Hoffmann "Rücksicht" German
Dieter Reith
 Greece ERT Christie "Mou les" (Μου λες) Greek
  • Sophia Fildissi
  • Antonis Plessas
Mimis Plessas
 Israel IBA Ofra Haza "Hi" (חי) Hebrew Silvio Nanssi Brandes
 Italy RAI Riccardo Fogli "Per Lucia" Italian Maurizio Fabrizio
 Luxembourg CLT Corinne Hermès "Si la vie est cadeau" French
  • Alain Garcia
  • Jean-Pierre Millers
Michel Bernholc
 Netherlands NOS Bernadette "Sing Me a Song" Dutch
Piet Souer
 Norway NRK Jahn Teigen "Do Re Mi" Norwegian Sigurd Jansen
 Portugal RTP Armando Gama "Esta balada que te dou" Portuguese Armando Gama Mike Sergeant
 Spain TVE Remedios Amaya "Quién maneja mi barca" Spanish
  • José Miguel Évoras
  • Isidro Muñoz
José Miguel Évoras
 Sweden SVT Carola Häggkvist "Främling" Swedish Anders Ekdahl
  Switzerland SRG SSR Mariella Farré "Io così non ci sto" Italian
Robert Weber
 Turkey TRT Çetin Alp and the Short Wave "Opera" Turkish
Buğra Uğur
 United Kingdom BBC Sweet Dreams "I'm Never Giving Up" English
John Coleman
 Yugoslavia JRT Daniel "Džuli" (Џули) Serbo-Croatian
Radovan Papović

Returning artists

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Artist Country Previous year(s)
Guy Bonnet  France 1970
Sandra Reemer (backing singer)  Netherlands 1972 (along with Andres Holten), 1976, 1979 (as Xandra)
Jahn Teigen  Norway 1978, 1982
Anita Skorgan (backing singer) 1977, 1979, 1981 (as backing singer for Finn Kalvik) 1982
Izolda Barudžija (backing singer)  Yugoslavia 1982 (part of Aska)

Production

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Preparations for the production of the contest started in June 1982.[3] The final was produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, with production costs of 1.2 million DM, further 1.5 million DM for the organisation and transmission, making a total of 2.7 million DM.[1][11] With the help of donations and other contributions, Bayerischer Rundfunk was able to reduce the costs at its own expense to about 1 million DM.[12] The city of Munich had to contribute 60 000 DM to a reception for the participating delegations.[13]

The contest was directed by Rainer Bertram [de].[14] Dieter Reith served as the general musical director of the 60-piece orchestra.[12] Christian Hayer and Günther Lebram served as the executive producers.[15] Other leading figures in the production included Wolf Mittler, Sylvia de Bruycker, Christof Schmid and Joachim Krausz.[16] Rehearsals started on 18 April 1983.[14]

Stage design

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The stage was designed by Hans Gailling [de].[3] The set was an arc-shaped stage surrounding the orchestra section and had a size of 4 × 34 metres.[2] A 26 metres large and seven metres high steel construction with frames resembling giant electric heaters was used as the background.[1][17][3] The 33 frames were equipped with three light panels each, at which hundreds of light bulbs were suspended.[3] In total, 63 000 light bulbs, which could be controlled manually or by sound frequency, lit up and flashed in different sequences and combinations depending on the nature and rhythm of the songs.[1][3]

Format

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Various receptions and events were organised in the week leading up to the final. On 19 April 1983, a cruise on Lake Starnberg with several participants was held by the German National Tourist Board as a press event for 250 journalists.[18][19][20] The Tourist Board also organised a bus tour for several participants to Linderhof Palace and Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 20 April 1983.[21][20] On 19 April 1983, a reception for the participants was held at the Antiquarium in the Munich Residenz, on behalf of Franz Josef Strauss, minister-president of the state of Bavaria.[1][22][23] Parties and receptions for the artists were also organised by the record labels Ariola, Polydor and Deutsche Grammophon.[20] Ralph Siegel, composer of the winning entry of 1982, and his own record label Jupiter Records [de], held a party for 1000 guests, including many artists, on 21 April 1983.[20][24][25]

A press centre with television monitors, typewriters, telephones and paper notebooks was installed for the 600 journalists covering the event.[26][27]

German Bundespost installed a post office from 18 to 23 April at the Rudi-Sedlmayr-Halle and stamped letters from there with a special Eurovision Song Contest postmark.[28]

Presentation format

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Instead of pre-filmed "postcards", the production team for this edition chose not to produce the postcards for technical reasons. During the change of the stage elements, the name of the next country was shown on screen accompanied by music from the orchestra, followed by a presentation of the upcoming entry by Marlene Charell.[15]

After the first rehearsals, the Austrian and British commentators complained that, since there were no postcards, they felt that there was not enough time to introduce the upcoming entry to their viewers, and subsequently threatened to withdrawn from the contest.[29] As a reaction, for the live show and latter rehearsals, the name of the upcoming country was shown on screen for a certain time so that commentators had enough time.[4]

For the introduction of each entry, Charell stood in front of individual flower arrangements with flowers in the colours of the corresponding entry’s national flag.[1] The floral arrangements were provided by the International Garden Expo 83 organization, as the event was also scheduled to be held on city weeks after the contest.[3] Hostess Marlene Charell made all of her announcements in German before translating a repetition in both French and English.[16] In all three languages, Charell named the country, song title, performing artist, author, composer and conductor. The decision not to use postcards apparently left Marlene lost during the event, as she would have to use three languages to introduce each of the participants.

Due to host Charell's use of three, the voting went on for nearly an hour, stretching the Eurovision contest past three hours for the second time ever, the first after 1979.[30] In addition, Charell made 13 language mistakes throughout the night,[30] some as innocuous as mixing up the words for "points" between the three languages, some as major as nearly awarding points to "Schweden" (Sweden) that were meant for "Schweiz" (Switzerland).

The language problems also occurred during the contest introductions, as Charell mispronounced the Finnish singer Ami Aspelund's surname as "Aspesund" and Spanish singer Remedios Amaya's name as "Ramedios", furthermore she introduced the Norwegian conductor Sigurd Jansen as "...Johannes...Skorgan...",[31] having been forced to make up a name on the spot after forgetting the conductor's name.

Contest overview

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The contest took place on 23 April 1983, beginning at 21:00 CEST (19:00 UTC).[32] At the start of the broadcast, a 7-minutes-film with views of various sights of Germany and of the host city Munich was shown.[33][34] As part of introduction,a parade of nations was called by the presenter Marlene Charell.[15] The interval act was a dance number set to a medley of German songs which had become internationally famous, including "Strangers in the Night". The host, Marlene Charell was the lead dancer accompanied by her ballet with 20 dancers from her company.[35]

Director of the show Rainer Bertram [de] and Roger Kreischer, the them program director at the Luxembourgish broadcaster RTL, openly criticized the mocking tone of the local media and the public present at the venue towards the luxembourgish entry.[29] [36] It was famously seen during the broadcast that a good part of the public present at the contest site voluntarily left during the performance of Corine Hèrmes, which according to the draw was the last of the 20 participating songs. Other embarrassing reactions towards the Luxembourgish participant were recorded during the voting. Each time the name Luxembourg was announced by the jury spokespeople from each country, laughters and some joking words were heard and when high scores appeared, boos and another low slangs were ensued.[29] When Corinne Hermès performed her reprise, a great part of the audience was already leaving.[29][37]

After the show, a reception for 1600 guests on behalf of the city of Munich took place in a tent of the International Garden Expo 83.[36][38]

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1983[39]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1  France Guy Bonnet "Vivre" 56 8
2  Norway Jahn Teigen "Do Re Mi" 53 9
3  United Kingdom Sweet Dreams "I'm Never Giving Up" 79 6
4  Sweden Carola Häggkvist "Främling" 126 3
5  Italy Riccardo Fogli "Per Lucia" 41 11
6  Turkey Çetin Alp and the Short Wave "Opera" 0 19
7  Spain Remedios Amaya "Quién maneja mi barca" 0 19
8   Switzerland Mariella Farré "Io così non ci sto" 28 15
9  Finland Ami Aspelund "Fantasiaa" 41 11
10  Greece Christie "Mou les" 32 14
11  Netherlands Bernadette "Sing Me a Song" 66 7
12  Yugoslavia Daniel "Džuli" 125 4
13  Cyprus Stavros and Constantina "I agapi akoma zi" 26 16
14  Germany Hoffmann and Hoffmann "Rücksicht" 94 5
15  Denmark Gry Johansen "Kloden drejer" 16 17
16  Israel Ofra Haza "Hi" 136 2
17  Portugal Armando Gama "Esta balada que te dou" 33 13
18  Austria Westend "Hurricane" 53 9
19  Belgium Pas de Deux "Rendez-vous" 13 18
20  Luxembourg Corinne Hermès "Si la vie est cadeau" 142 1

Spokespersons

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Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1983 contest are listed below.

Detailed voting results

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Each country had a jury consisting of 11 non-professional jurors who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) to their top ten songs.[43]

Detailed voting results[44][45]
Total score
France
Norway
United Kingdom
Sweden
Italy
Turkey
Spain
Switzerland
Finland
Greece
Netherlands
Yugoslavia
Cyprus
Germany
Denmark
Israel
Portugal
Austria
Belgium
Luxembourg
Contestants
France 56 3 10 10 6 7 2 3 4 4 1 3 3
Norway 53 5 3 6 8 1 8 4 6 3 7 2
United Kingdom 79 5 5 12 2 5 8 5 5 6 3 5 2 10 6
Sweden 126 6 12 8 8 7 2 5 10 10 3 1 7 12 10 8 4 8 5
Italy 41 7 2 4 3 1 2 8 1 6 7
Turkey 0
Spain 0
Switzerland 28 1 7 1 7 6 1 5
Finland 41 1 2 6 3 4 8 7 7 2 1
Greece 32 3 12 5 12
Netherlands 66 2 7 1 6 4 2 12 3 5 5 2 4 3 4 2 4
Yugoslavia 125 8 12 1 12 10 12 6 7 8 6 12 10 1 12 8
Cyprus 26 4 1 6 5 1 5 4
Germany 94 10 10 7 8 6 2 4 1 10 3 8 7 6 12
Denmark 16 2 7 1 4 2
Israel 136 8 6 10 5 3 6 7 7 3 12 10 10 7 10 12 10 10
Portugal 33 4 1 5 6 2 6 2 7
Austria 53 3 4 5 10 4 4 4 3 6 2 5 3
Belgium 13 4 8 1
Luxembourg 142 12 10 12 8 7 3 8 12 1 12 10 8 2 12 12 5 8

12 points

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Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
6  Luxembourg  France,  Greece,  Israel,  Italy,  Portugal,  Yugoslavia
5  Yugoslavia  Belgium,  Denmark,  Finland,  Turkey,  United Kingdom
2  Greece  Cyprus,  Spain
 Israel  Austria,  Netherlands
 Sweden  Germany,  Norway
1  Germany  Luxembourg
 Netherlands   Switzerland
 United Kingdom  Sweden

Broadcasts

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Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.[46] Host broadcaster BR provided 30 commentator boxes for this purpose.[3]

The contest was reportedly broadcast in 30 countries;[47] no official accounts of the global viewing figures are known to exist, with estimates given in the press at the time ranging from 300 to 600 million viewers.[1][48][27] Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF FS2 Ernst Grissemann [49][50]
 Belgium BRT TV1 Luc Appermont [51][52]
BRT 2 [53]
RTBF Télé 2, RTBF Radio 1 [54]
 Cyprus CyBC RIK [55]
 Denmark DR DR TV Jørgen de Mylius [56]
 Finland YLE TV1 Erkki Pohjanheimo [57]
Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi] Markus Similä [fi]
 France Antenne 2 Léon Zitrone [58]
RFO RFO-Martinique [fr][b] [59]
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Ado Schlier [de] [16][32][60]
BR Bayern 1 [29][32][61]
HR Frankfurt 1
NDR NDR 2 [de] [29][62]
RIAS RIAS 1 [29][61]
 Greece ERT ERT1, B Programma [63][64]
 Israel IBA Israeli Television, Reshet Bet [he] [65][66]
 Italy RAI Rete Uno[c] Paolo Frajese [it] [67]
 Luxembourg CLT RTL Télévision [68]
 Netherlands NOS Nederland 1 Willem Duys [69]
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet Ivar Dyrhaug [no] [70]
NRK[d] Erik Heyerdahl [no]
 Portugal RTP RTP1 Eládio Clímaco [71][72]
RDP Antena 1 [73]
 Spain TVE TVE 1 José-Miguel Ullán [74][75]
 Sweden SVT TV1 Ulf Elfving [76]
RR [sv] SR P3 Kent Finell [77]
  Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS Theodor Haller [de] [78][79]
TSR[e] Georges Hardy [fr]
TSI[e] Giovanni Bertini [80][81]
 Turkey TRT TRT Televizyon [82]
 United Kingdom BBC BBC1 Terry Wogan [83]
BFBS BFBS Radio Richard Nankivell [7]
 Yugoslavia JRT TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar [84][85][86]
TV Ljubljana 1 [sl] [87]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Australia SBS Channel 0/28[f] Terry Wogan [7][88]
 Czechoslovakia ČST ČST2[g] [89]
 Faroe Islands SvF[h] [90]
 Greenland KNR KNR[i] [91]
 Iceland RÚV Sjónvarpið [92]
 Ireland RTÉ RTÉ 1 Terry Wogan [93]
RTÉ Radio 1 Brendan Balfe [94]
 Poland TP TP1[j] [95]
 Romania TVR Programul 1[k] [96]
 South Africa SABC Radio 5 [97]

Notes

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  1. ^ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[10]
  2. ^ Delayed broadcast on 8 June 1983 at 20:02 (AST)[59]
  3. ^ Deferred broadcast at 22:00 (CEST)[67]
  4. ^ Deferred broadcast at 22:50 (CEST)[70]
  5. ^ a b Broadcast through a second audio programme on TV DRS[79]
  6. ^ Deferred broadcast on 24 April at 19:30 (AEST)[88]
  7. ^ Delayed broadcast on 20 May 1983 at 22:00 (CEST)[89]
  8. ^ Delayed broadcast on 1 May 1983 at 20:00 (WEST)[90]
  9. ^ Delayed broadcast on 30 April 1983 at 20:20 (WGST)[91]
  10. ^ Delayed broadcast on 21 May 1983 at 20:15 (CEST)[95]
  11. ^ Delayed broadcast in a shortened format on 30 April 1983 at 22:20 (EEST)[96]

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