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Eurovision Song Contest 1966
The Eurovision Song Contest 1966 was the 11th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" by France Gall. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (CLT), the contest was held at the Villa Louvigny on 5 March 1966 and was hosted by Luxembourgish television presenter Josiane Chen. Eighteen countries participated in the contest, the same that had competed the year before. The winner was with the song "", performed and composed by Udo Jürgens, and written by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger. This was Udo Jürgens third consecutive entry in the contest, finally managing to score a victory for his native country. Austria would not go on to win again until the edition. This was also the first winning song to be performed in German. The contest is also noted for its historic results for several countries. Austria who came first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiane Shen
Josiane Shen is a Luxembourgers, Luxembourgish former television presenter. She is best known for hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in . Career Having earned a degree in journalism, Shen spent her entire career as a television presenter with RTL9, Télé-Luxembourg. She is best known for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg in , which she presented entirely in French with the exception of the voting procedure. Shen is best remembered for accidentally greeting the United Kingdom during the voting procedure with "Good night, London", before correcting herself to "Good evening, London", to which the British spokesperson, Michael Aspel, replied "Good morning, Luxembourg". She also co-hosted two editions of the short-lived Grand Prix RTL International in 1970 and 1971. Filmography Television See also *List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters References External links * Living people Luxembourgian television personalities Year of birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ville Haute
The Ville Haute (, ; ; ) is a Quarters of Luxembourg City, quarter in central Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is the historical district, historic center of Luxembourg City and is involved in its UNESCO World Heritage Site status. , the Ville Haute has a population of 3,449 inhabitants. The Ville Haute is home to prestigious squares, buildings and monuments such as Place Guillaume II, Place d'Armes (Luxembourg), Place d'Armes, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg, Notre-Dame Cathedral and Grand Ducal Palace, Luxembourg, Grand Ducal Palace, as well as many government institutions. The Gëlle Fra Monument of Remembrance war memorial is situated on Place de la Constitution. References Quarters of Luxembourg City {{Luxembourgcanton-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulla Pia
Ulla Pia Nielsen (17 February 1945 – 22 August 2020), known simply as Ulla Pia, was a Danish singer, best known internationally for her participation in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest. Ulla Pia was born in Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ..., where she started her career as a vocalist with bands and orchestras. In the mid-1960s she was singing with jazz musician Finn Ziegler, and it was suggested in 1966 that she enter a song in the Danish Eurovision selection, Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. She performed the song " Stop - mens legen er go'" ("Stop, While the Going's Good"), and to her surprise, emerged the clear winner. Ulla Pia stated in a recent interview that she had assumed that one of her better-known competitors (such as Dario Campeotto or G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DR (broadcaster)
DR (), officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. DR shares many of its organisational characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled. DR is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union. Bjarne Corydon will become the Director-General of DR in August 2025. DR was originally funded by a media licence, however since 2022, the media license has been replaced by an addition to the Danish income tax. Today, DR operates three television channels, all of which are distributed free-to-air via a nationwide DVB-T2 network. DR also operates seven radio channels. All are available nationally on DAB+ radio and online, with the four original stations also available on FM radio. History DR was founded on 1 April 1925 under the name of ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonia (singer)
Tonia (born Arlette Antoine Dominicus, 25 July 1947, Anderlecht) is a Belgian singer, best known for her participation in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest. Early career Tonia released her first single, "Mon p'tit copain de vacances", in 1963, and went on to release numerous further singles. She would often record both Dutch and French cover versions of popular German songs. Eurovision Song Contest In the 1966 Belgian Eurovision selection, Tonia performed four songs and the winner, " Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel" ("A Little Pepper, A Little Salt"), was chosen by postcard voting as the representative for the 11th Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 5 March in Luxembourg City. "Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel" finished in fourth place of 18 entries, Belgium's highest placing in Eurovision to that date, which would not be bettered until 1978. In 1968, Tonia again participated in the Belgian selection with the song "Il y avait", but failed to place in the top two. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radiodiffusion-télévision Belge
The ("Belgian Radio-television of the French Community"), shortened to RTBF (branded as rtbf.be), is a public service broadcaster for the French-speaking Community of Belgium. Its counterpart in the Flemish Community is the Dutch-language VRT (), and in the German-speaking Community it is BRF (). The RTBF operates five television channels (, , , and ) together with a number of radio channels, including , , , , , and . The organisation's headquarters in Brussels, which is shared with VRT, is sometimes referred to colloquially as ''Reyers''. This comes from the name of the avenue where the RTBF/VRT's main building is located, the /. History The National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (; ), the state-owned broadcasting organisation was established by law on 18 June 1930, and from 1938 was housed in the Flagey Building, also known as the ''Radio House'', a purpose-built building in the "paquebot" style of Art Deco architecture. On 14 June 1940, the INR was forced to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hörbiger
Thomas Hörbiger (1931–2011) was a German film actor and lyricist. He was the son of the actor Paul Hörbiger. His daughter is the actress Mavie Hörbiger. Hörbiger co-wrote Austria's winning entry at the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest, which was sung by Udo Jürgens. Selected filmography * '' The Doctor's Secret'' (1955) * '' Emperor's Ball'' (1956) * '' The Winemaker of Langenlois'' (1957) * ''Love, Girls and Soldiers ''Love, Girls and Soldiers'' (German: ''Liebe, Mädchen und Soldaten'') is a 1958 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Renate Holm, Willy Hagara and Carla Hagen.Bock & Bergfelder p.175 The film's sets were designed by ...'' (1958) * '' The Street'' (1958) References Bibliography * Barclay, Simon. ''The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2014''. External links * 1931 births 2011 deaths German male film actors Male actors from Berlin Eurovision Song Contest-winning songwriters {{Germany-fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ORF (broadcaster)
(ORF ; , ) is the national public broadcaster of Austria. Funded from a combination of television licence fee revenue and limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media. Austria was the last country in continental Europe after Albania to allow nationwide private television broadcasting, although commercial TV channels from neighbouring Germany have been present in Austria on Pay television, pay-TV and via Signal overspill, terrestrial overspill since the 1980s. History of broadcasting in Austria The first unregulated test transmissions in Austria began on 1 April 1923 by Radio Hekaphon, run by the radio pioneer and enthusiast (1887–1958), who applied for a radio licence in 1921; first in his telephone factory in the Brigittenau district of Vienna, later in the nearby TGM technical college. On 2 September, it aired a first broadcast address by Austrian President Michael Hainisch (1858–1940). One year later, a powerful transmitte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europeana
Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe. It includes records of over 50 million cultural and scientific artefacts, brought together on a single platform and presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern users. The prototype for Europeana was the European Digital Library Network (EDLnet), launched in 2008. The Europeana Foundation is the governing body of the service, and is incorporated under Dutch law as Stichting Europeana. History Europeana had its beginnings after a letter was jointly sent in April 2005 by Jacques Chirac, President of France, and the premiers of Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and Hungary to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso. It urged the creation of a virtual European library in order to make Europe's cultural heritage more accessible to everyone. The letter helped to give added support to work that th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black People
Black is a racial classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion. Not all people considered "black" have dark skin and often additional phenotypical characteristics are relevant, such as facial and hair-texture features; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned compared to other populations. It is most commonly used for people of sub-Saharan African ancestry, Indigenous Australians and Melanesians, though it has been applied in many contexts to other groups, and is no indicator of any close ancestral relationship whatsoever. Indigenous African societies do not use the term ''black'' as a racial identity outside of influences brought by Western cultures. Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milly Scott
Marion Henriëtte Louise Molly (born 29 December 1933), known professionally as Milly Scott, is a Dutch singer and actress of Surinamese origin, best known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966. She is recognised as the first black singer to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest. Early life Scott was born in Den Helder, the main base of the Royal Netherlands Navy, where her father was stationed as a marine. Both her parents were immigrants from the Dutch colony of Surinam, while her paternal grandfather was originally from North Brabant. As the first black family in Den Helder and the only black child in kindergarten, she often experienced discrimination while growing up. In the beginning of World War II, the ship HNLMS ''Johan Maurits van Nassau'' was bombed, severely wounding Scott's father, after which the family moved to Amsterdam. Soon after, her father was summoned by the Nazis and taken to Germany as a prisoner of war. The Red Cross later inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Gazzetta Del Mezzogiorno
(English: "The Gazette of the South") is an Italian daily newspaper, founded in 1887 in Bari, Italy. It is one of the leading newspapers published in Southern Italy, with most of its readers living in Apulia and Basilicata. suspended its publication temporarily on 1 August 2021 due to financial crisis and court proceedings against its owner, Mario Ciancio Sanfilippo. The newspaper resumed publications on 19 February 2022. History and profile was first published on 1 November 1887 in Bari, Italy, by the magazine editor Martino Cassano to fill the niche for a local newspaper in Bari despite Apulia's high rate of illiteracy; it measured at 70% in 1905. Originally published as the ''Corriere delle Puglie'', its current title began to be used by editor Raphael Gorjux on 26 February 1928. The editor-in-chief of was Giuseppe de Tomaso until 2021. Since the 1990s the paper has objectively covered the news on migration to Italy. On 11 November 2021, Oscar Iarussi was appointed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
