| Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1989 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) | |||
| Country |  Switzerland | |||
| Selection process | Concours Eurovision de la Chanson1989 | |||
| Selection date | 18 February 1989 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Viver senza tei" | |||
| Artist | Furbaz | |||
| Songwriter | Marie Louise Werth | |||
| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 13th, 47 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Switzerland was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 1989 with the song "Viver senza tei", written by Marie Louise Werth, and performed byFurbaz. The Swiss participating broadcaster, theSwiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), selected its entry through a national final. In addition,Télévision suisse romande (TSR), on behalf of the SRG SSR, was the host broadcaster and staged the event at thePalais de Beaulieu inLausanne, after their win at theprevious edition with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi" byCéline Dion. This was the first-ever entry performed in Romansh in theEurovision Song Contest.
TheSwiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) held a national final to select its entry for theEurovision Song Contest 1989. Each division of SRG SSR —Swiss German andRomansh broadcasterSchweizer Fernsehen der deutschen und rätoromanischen Schweiz (SF DRS),Swiss French broadcaterTélévision suisse romande (TSR), andSwiss Italian broadcasterTelevisione Svizzera di lingua italiana (TSI) —, used its own method to select its entries for the final.[1] Eligible songs were required to have been composed by songwriters from Switzerland orLiechtenstein, and the deadline for the song registration was on 28 October 1988.[1][2]
TSR internally selected its three songs for the final out of 51 song submissions.[3][4] In total, 137 songs were submitted (with 9 being invalid), of which ten were selected: three in French, German, and Italian, and one in Romansh.[4][5] It is unknown how the remaining regional broadcasters selected their songs.
SF DRS staged the national final on 18 February 1989 at 20:10CET at the Theater Casino inZug. It was hosted byRaymond Fein [de]. The national final was broadcast onTV DRS (with commentary byMariano Tschuor [rm]),TSR (with commentary bySerge Moisson [fr]), andTSI[a] (with Italian commentary).[6]Céline Dion— who won forSwitzerland in 1988 — and the Gipsy Line Dancers made guest appearances.[7]
| R/O | Artist(s) | Song | Songwriter(s) | Language | |
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| Composer | Lyricist | ||||
| 1 | Michel Villa | "Sur des musiques qui balancent" | Jean-Jacques Egli | French | |
| 2 | Nadia Goj [it] | "Una canzone per sognare" | Renato Mascetti | Italian | |
| 3 | Carl Nicholas | "Reisefieber" | Karl Niklaus Weber | German | |
| 4 | Alexandra | "S'envoler pour ailleurs" | Alexandra Passina | French | |
| 5 | Chris Lorens | "Mutter Erde" | Amanda Hermle | German | |
| 6 | Pierrette Dufaux | "Coup d'assommoir" | Mario Bonny | Yvan Sjöstedt | French |
| 7 | Silvana Rezzonico | "Déjà vu" | Daniele Christen | Italian | |
| 8 | Ann Lomar | "Wege in der Nacht" | Tobias Frey | Ueli Schnorf | German |
| 9 | Renato Mascetti | "La voce del mare" | Renato Mascetti | Italian | |
| 10 | Furbaz | "Viver senza tei" | Marie Louise Werth | Romansh | |
The voting consisted of regional public votes which were sent to the three divisions of SRG SSR (SF DRS, TSR, TSI: German-Romansh, French, and Italian speaking, respectively), a press jury, and an "expert" jury.[5] Applications for viewers to join the regional juries were sent via postcard until the week before the final, and 50 viewers from each canton were randomly selected to cast their votes to their broadcaster divisions via phone call.[5]
The winner was the song "Viver senza tei", composed by Marie Louise Werth and performed byFurbaz. The song received the highest possible amount of 60 points; 12 points from all five juries, and became the first song in Eurovision to be performed inRomansh.
| R/O | Artist(s) | Song | Regional Juries | Press Jury | Expert Jury | Total | Place | ||
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| DRS | TSR | TSI | |||||||
| 1 | Michel Villa | "Sur des musiques qui balancent" | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 34 | 4 |
| 2 | Nadia Goj [it] | "Una canzone per sognare" | 7 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 36 | 3 |
| 3 | Carl Nicolas | "Reisefieber" | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 28 | 5 |
| 4 | Alexandra | "S'envoler pour ailleurs" | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 |
| 5 | Chris Lorens | "Mutter Erde" | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 46 | 2 |
| 6 | Pierrette Dufaux | "Coup d'assommoir" | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 |
| 7 | Silvana Rezzonico | "Déjà vu" | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 8 | Ann Lomar | "Wege in der Nacht" | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 5 |
| 9 | Renato Mascetti | "La voce del mare" | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 7 |
| 10 | Furbaz | "Viver senza tei" | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 60 | 1 |
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At the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, held at thePalais de Beaulieu inLausanne, the Swiss entry was the eighteenth entry of the night followingCyprus and precedingGreece. The Swiss conductor at the contest was Benoît Kaufman. At the close of voting, Switzerland had received 47 points in total; finishing in thirteenth out of twenty-two countries.
Each participating broadcaster assembled a jury panel with at least eleven members. The jurors awarded 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their top ten songs.
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