Eurovision Song Contest 2012
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The 57th Euro Vision Song Contest was held in Azerbaijan's capital Baku on 22, 24 and 26 May 2012. The Azerbaijani singing duo Ell & Nikki won the competition last year with the contribution of Running Scared.
The Swedish Post Euphoria, sung by the singer Loreen, took first place. With 372 points she reached the second highest score in the history of the Euro Vision Song Contest according to Alexander Rybak in 2009.
- 4.1 Final scoreboard
- 4.2 TeleVote and jury vote
- 4.3 Statistics of the twelve-point award
- 4.4 Special
- 4.5 Marcel- Bezençon price
- 4.6 Returning Artists
- 7.1 Germany
- 7.2 Switzerland
- 7.3 Austria
- 7.4 Albania
- 7.5 Production Partnership
Venue
Already mid-May 2011 was proposed to build a new concert complex in the center of Baku. As the possible venue also the Tofiq - Bəhramov Stadium and the " Heydar Aliyev Palace " were mentioned. (: " Place the national flag " German ) announced on August 4, 2011, the construction of the " Baku Concert Arena " on " Dövlət Bayrağı Meydanı " became official. According to Azad TV the planned " Baku Crystal Hall " should have a capacity of 25,000 people.
The ESC, the Baku Crystal Hall had a capacity of about 16,000 people on the basis of the stage structures. The construction costs of the hall were 120 to 140 million euros. Total expenditure has been estimated by the East - West Research Centre in Baku on 575 million euros.
Participant
- Finalist
- Countries that did not qualify for the finals
- Countries that have not participated in the past, in 2012 at the Euro Vision Song Contest.
Until the expiry of the registration period to 43 countries had registered to participate in the 57th Euro Vision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. After two years break Montenegro took part again. In contrast, Poland decided not to participate this year at the Euro Vision Song Contest.
The participating countries were Azerbaijan as host country, and the " Big Five" ( Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) directly qualified for the final on 26 May 2012. The other countries had in two semifinals in the top ten come to participate in the Finals can. At the first semi-final should the 18 countries on the second first participating 19 countries. The six countries had already qualified in one of the two semifinals to vote.
The number of participants decreased to 42 countries, as 7 March 2012 informed the Armenian transmitter of the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU), but that Armenia will not participate in the Euro Vision Song Contest in Baku. At this time Armenia had already been drawn against the first initiator group of the second semi-final, but had no post selected.
Semifinal
On 25 January 2012, the contraction of the two semi-finals took place at a ceremony in Baku. We also find the complete logo and motto were " Light Your Fire! " Presented in accordance with Azerbaijan as the "Land of Fire" ( oil ). For the musical accompaniment attended besides Safura and AySel the ESC winner Marija Serifovic, Dima Bilan, Alexander Rybak, Lena and Ell & Nikki with their winning titles.
The participating countries, except the Big Five and the host Azerbaijan were distributed according to their vocal award in recent years to six pots. Azerbaijan, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom were allocated as mitabstimmende Nations by lot a semifinal. Germany was set from the outset for the second semi-final, as it had been previously successfully applied for the EBU to be allowed to vote in the second semi-final. After that, the remaining participants were randomly assigned to one of the two semi-finals for a key from the pots. When the draw was set at the same time, if the country starts in the first or in the second half of their semifinal.
At the meeting of the Reference Group of the European Broadcasting Union on 20 March 2012, the starting numbers in the semifinals and the pre-qualified countries were drawn in the final. In this ever a wild card drawn from each semi-final and half from the finale, which could be sought out their seats. These were the first Semifinal Finland (No. 9 ) and Ireland (No. 18), in the second the Ukraine (No. 7 ) and Lithuania (No. 18) and in the final Spain (no. 19).
- Albania Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia Croatia
- Macedonia Macedonia
- Montenegro Montenegro
- Switzerland Switzerland
- Serbia Serbia
- Denmark Denmark
- Estonia Estonia
- Finland Finland
- Iceland Iceland
- Norway Norway
- Sweden Sweden
- Georgia Georgia
- Israel Israel
- Moldova Moldova
- Russia Russia
- Ukraine Ukraine
- Belarus Belarus
- Armenia Armenia
- Belgium
- Greece Greece
- Netherlands The Netherlands
- Turkey Turkey
- Cyprus Republic of Cyprus
- Ireland Ireland
- Latvia Latvia
- Lithuania Lithuania
- Malta Malta
- Portugal
- Romania Romania
- Bulgaria
- Austria Austria
- San Marino San Marino
- Slovakia Slovakia
- Slovenia Slovenia
- Hungary Hungary
Semi-final 1
The first semi-final was held on 22 May 2012. Italy Italy, Azerbaijan and Spain evaluated in this semi-final.
Scoreboard semifinal 1
Semi-final 2
The second semi-final was held on 24 May 2012. Germany Germany United Kingdom United Kingdom and France evaluated in this semi-final.
1 The song contains sentences in Arabic, Azerbaijani, English, French, Greek, Italian, Romany, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Turkish
Scoreboard Semi-final 2
Final
Each of the 42 participating countries evaluated.
Scoreboard Finale
As Swedish champion title (not Sweden from Italy, Russia not from Switzerland ) received second-placed Russian contribution of all countries, except one, points, but Sweden was 18 times twelve points ( so often reached in the history of the competition has never been a Post the highest score ), Russia only once ( Belarus ).
TeleVote and jury vote
On 18 June 2012, the EBU announced the segregated televoting and jury votes votes in the final. Each nation had the top ten of their audience and their jury separately submitted to the EBU and as usual presents the summarized results Appreciation on the final evening. The following table gives the sums of the TeleVote and jury points and the particular resulting placement for each finalist again:
Statistics of the twelve-point award
Special
Since Azerbaijan in an Eastern Time Zone (UTC 5 GMT 3) is, the beginning of the events in Europe but traditionally always at the same time takes place ( 19:00 UTC clock, in Germany CEST 21.00 clock ), the events began in Baku to only 0:00 clock at night.
As in the past there were in 2012, inconsistencies in the choice of contribution to Belarus. First, the singer Alyona Lanskaja won the preliminary round Belarus with the song All My Life. On February 24, 2012, the television station BRTC however, explained that the group Lite Sound will travel with We Are the Heroes to Baku.
A day after the release of the song of San Marino was the reference group of the EBU on March 17, 2012 that the text and the title of the song Facebook, Uh, Oh, Oh violates the rule 1.2.2.g. In this article it is stipulated that a song must contain, among other things, no effective advertising message for a product. On March 23, San Marino released a new version of the song with the title The Social Network Song ( OH OH OH Uh- OH). In the new version the word " Facebook" "Beep - Beep" "Hello " and " ( Social) network" was replaced by " OH OH ", replaced. In addition, the phrase " But soon Mark Zuckerberg 's hammerin ' " to " But soon the Internet 's beepin ' rewritten '.
The 86 -year-old Elizabeth Sarbatowa from the Russian group Buranowskije babushkas set a record for the oldest nominated for a Euro Vision Song Contest person, which in turn was reorganized in the following year by Emil Ramsauer from the Swiss group Takasa 95 years. Previously, this was the Croatian rapper was 75 cents, which occurred as 75 -year-old in 2008. Sarbatowa is 70 years older than the youngest participant, the 16 -year-old Eva Boto for Slovenia. The " grandmothers Buranowo " also present the first Euro Vision Song Contest contribution in udmurtischer language. In addition, the Georgian and Azerbaijan are represented for the first time at the competition stage, although Azerbaijani can only be heard with a set in the Bulgarian contribution Love Unlimited.
The Swede Peter Boström was co-author of both the Swedish champion title as well as the last -placed Norwegian contribution.
The Barbara Dex Award this year won the Albanian singer Rona Nishliu.
Marcel- Bezençon price
This year's winners of the awarded since 2002 Marcel- Bezençon Prize are:
- Press Award for best song: Azerbaijan Azerbaijan - When the Music Dies - Sabina Babayeva
- Artist Award for Best Artist: Sweden Sweden - Loreen - Euphoria
- Composers Award for the best composition / Text: Sweden Sweden - Thomas G: son ( m & t) and Peter Boström ( m & t) - Euphoria - Loreen
Returning performers
National preliminaries
On 15 June 2011, a further cooperation between the ARD and ProSieben for the German preliminary decision to Song Contest has been officially announced. The contribution was determined by the casting format Unser Star für Baku. After the departure of Stefan Raab Thomas D was recruited as president of the jury.
In Austria the preliminary round was entitled Austria rocks the Song Contest as a cooperation of the television station ORF and one of the radio station Ö3. Of the ten participants, eight were selected by a jury Ö3 in advance. Another starting point was the band from the talent show Block Stars - Sido makes band, also, interested parties could apply for a Wild Card. From the preliminary went out on 24 February 2012, the band Trackshittaz, the play-off against Conchita Wurst could prevail - Trackshittaz finally finished in the semifinals one last place.
When Swiss preliminary decision on 10 December 2011, the Ticino band Sinplus could prevail with their song Unbreakable. The 88- year-old singer Lys Assia, the winner of the first Euro Vision Song Contest in 1956, finished with the song composed by Ralph Siegel C'était ma vie the 8th Place.
Changes in the televoting
End of June 2011 was for 2012 a further change of voting method announced by telephone: How recently in 2009, the telephone lines were open for voting until after the presentation of the last track, the time window for the vote was as it was 15 minutes.
Transmission
Germany
The first semi-final was broadcast May 22, 2012 live in the specialty channel EinsFestival and from midnight repeated again in the NDR television. The second semi-final, in which Germany was entitled to vote, was transferred from the specialty channel Phoenix and repeated from 23:00 clock of a festival. The countdown to the finale and after party on the final day was moderated by Judith Rakers. The German points were given during the awarding points by Anke Engelke to Baku. Thus, all three presenters of last year's Euro Vision Song Contest were also this year as a judge of the preliminary decision (Stefan Raab ), moderator of the countdown ( Judith Rakers ) or the German scoring (Anke Engelke ) involved in the contest. The German jury consisted of Anke Engelke, Kitty MIA. , Tim Bendzko, Sabine Heinrich and Ben. On the Internet, both the final and the two semi-finals were to be seen via webstream on eurovision.de ( German ) and on eurovision.tv (English). In the radio 1 Live rendered the second semi-final and hr3, N -Joy and NDR 2 transferred from 21:00 clock the final with Tim Spring and Thomas Mohr as commentators.
Switzerland
In the German speaking part of Switzerland, the first semi-final and the final were transferred to SF two. Commentator was Sven Epiney. In the French-speaking part of the country, these two events were sent to RTS Deux with commentary by Jean -Marc Richard and Nicolas Tanner. In the Italian-speaking part of the first semi-final on RSI LA 2 and the final were broadcast on RSI LA 1, commenting on Clarissa Tami and Paolo Meneguzzi. The second semi-final was broadcast by any Swiss station. The Swiss scoring announced the SF- presenter Sara Hildebrand.
Austria
In Austria both semifinals and the finals with commentary by Andi Knoll were - support during the Finals of Luke Plöchl - shown on ORF one. After ten years of abstinence Stermann Grissemann and commented on the final as an alternative bilingual and FM4. Kati Bellowitsch announced at the finale, the Austrian points. Dominic Heinzl led previously to set the mood by a society magazine.
Albania
The EBU allowed the Albanian national television station RTSH, the semi-finals with Rona Nishliu not to transmit live television since May 22 had been declared after a serious bus accident on the day of national mourning. For scoring, only the votes of the jury counted.
Production partnership
The host broadcaster Ictimai TV obliged the German production company Brain pool with the technical implementation of the event. Brain Pool recorded in 2011 responsible for the production of the Eurovision Song Contest in Dusseldorf. As the executive producer Adil Karimli announced that it was convinced by the then " excellent design ". Had therefore been decided in 2012 for Brain Pool as a production partner. In order to ensure smooth implementation of the program in Baku, this substantially all of technical equipment such as cameras, transmission and recording technology was delivered from Germany.
Political and Human Rights
In connection with the construction activities for the Euro Vision Song Contest in Baku to have come to human rights violations. Human Rights Watch reported that houses and apartments were illegally dispossessed and evicted, sometimes without warning and at night. Owners who did not want to leave their homes were forced to evacuate by them even the windows were water and electricity turned off and removed. Also houses to have been demolished before they could be cleared by the residents. In addition, dividends paid by the government compensation payments were inadequate, if they occurred at all.
Amnesty International called on the occasion of the Euro Vision Song Contest on to appeal to the President of Azerbaijan, to effect the release of political prisoners.
"! Light Your Fire" Based on the slogan chanted demonstrators in Baku for political reforms under the slogan ( German: " Fight your liar !") " Fight Your Liar ".
At a demonstration in front of the final of the Euro Vision Song Contest in Azerbaijan more than 60 people have been arrested, according to the opposition. As the Alliance Public Chamber to provide about ten protesters were injured. On a busy promenade in the capital, Baku, May 25, 2012 Dozens of people had gathered and "Freedom! " recalled.
As only one of the 42 jury speaker and speakers inside Anke Engelke took the attention of the audience of millions in the final, to make it clear attention to the human rights situation in Azerbaijan. In the live broadcast they said at the beginning of the German points proclamation: "Tonight, nobody Could vote for Their Own country, but it is good to be able to vote and it is good to have a choice. Good luck on your journey, Azerbaijan. . Europe is watching you " ( German: ". . Tonight no one could vote for his own country, but it is good to be able to choose, and it is good to have a choice Good luck on your journey, Azerbaijan Europe looks at thee. " )
On March 7, 2012 Armenia said from his participation in Baku. The reason for the boycott of the state television called in a statement utterances of the President of Azerbaijan, according to which these Armenians have called all over the world as the main enemies of Azerbaijan - although the local authorities had promised to guarantee the safety of all participating countries.
The neighboring state of Iran called the Euro Vision Song Contest as an insult to Islam and moved to protest the Western orientation of Azerbaijan its ambassador to Baku from.