“We are the winner,” the Carintic Governor Peter Kaiser welcomed and he is right: because Carinthian Thomas Thurnner produced the ESC-Winning song “Wasted Love” by JJ. The party will probably not increase in Carinthia next year.
One thing in advance: how it should feel to win a Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is difficult to imagine. The music producer Thomas Thurner, born in St. Veit and grew up in Klagenfurt, describes his feelings as a mixture of joy and exhaustion: “I am great now! Very tired now. I still don’t really understand what’s going on,” he said Vienna on Sunday evening.
It will probably take some time before the experience is processed: “We are all in such a hype! You walk back and forth and do not know where to go with your emotions. Since Saturday I felt in a fever dream. We did not realize it yet,” the 25-year-old, who wasted the song “Verspilde” in Berlijna and moscollega and, written,.
Meeting with Van der Bellen: “Classic Monday”
How are the talented Carinthian? “Actually, I would have had a flight back to Berlin to produce other music. But that’s all a bit in the balance. On Monday we will meet the federal president – Classic Monday,” laughs Thurner. And he confirms: “We have already celebrated – even if there was a lot of press and chaos immediately after the victory. But we still celebrated a bit in the hotel’s lobby.”
And while cities such as Graz, Wels and even Oberwart hope to be the background of the ESC next year, an application as a location of the 70th ESC in Klagenfurt was excluded: ten years ago, when the Wörthersee stadium was in conversation after Conchitas, the requirements were carefully analyzed.
However, the evaluation showed that an event of this dimension in this country was “not possible”. The reason: adjustments that are too expensive would be needed, then you would hardly need them. That is why the city of Klagenfurt was canceled with a heavy heart on Sunday, even if the ESC in the southernmost state “would of course be great. But it is simply not possible with us.”
By the way – Klagenfurt is not only, Salzburg also refuses: “The idea itself would be attractive, we are the city of music,” said Mayor Bernhard Auinger (Spö). However, the event would neither be neither infrastructure nor financially.
Song matches goes to Carinthia for the second time
After Udo Jürgens and Conchita Wurst, singer JJ is the third Austrian to win ESC. “A musical milestone for our country,” says Governor and Cultural Officer Peter Kaiser (Spö) about the success of Thurner: “This makes Carinthia a part of this triumph! It is not only a victory for JJ and Austria, but also a great moment for the Carinthian music scene and for our Federal stands.
“JJ comes together with his producer in the big footsteps of Udo Jürgens, who is also deeply connected to Carinthia,” congratulates the Carinthia boss Gerhard Köfer.
Source: Krone
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