Miami Herald 31 May 2010
Thousands of German fans have welcomed 2010 Eurovision Song Contest winner Lena Meyer-Landrut as she arrived at the airport of her hometown of Hannover. Meyer-Landrut, wearing jeans and flowers in her hair, waved to her fans and told them ``you guys are crazy, go inside, it's raining.'' The 19-year-old high school student, who won Saturday's song competition with the catchy pop song Satellite, was also welcomed by Lower Saxony's state governor, Christian Wulff.
BERLIN -- Germany's victory at the Eurovision Song Contest has cemented an unprecedented bond between pubcaster giant ARD and its commercial rival ProSieben that will continue through next year.In a potentially controversial decision, the broadcasters announced Monday that Eurovision winner Lena Meyer-Landrut will defend her title in 2011.
Geändert von simon (01.06.2010 um 17:50 Uhr)
Grund: gekürzt
With Lena Meyer-Landrut’s hands-down victory at the Eurovision Song Contest, a German has won the event for the first time in 28 years.
But Lena’s charm offensive has taken not only Germany but all of Europe by storm, fostering feelings of oneness from Riga to Barcelona, writes the left-liberal Frankfurter Rundschau:
Lena from Germany was out of this world with her Eurovision song and flew her way to victory with the song "Satellite".
The results from around Europe are in and Germany is Eurovision's winner with 246 points.
At first, the winner wasn't clear, but then Deutschland began to storm ahead and soon enough they couldn't be caught.
So next year, the huge Eurovision bandwagon will relocate to Germany - only 364 days to go until the next final! Can you wait?
Here's the top five results for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010: Germany - 246 points Turkey - 170 points Romania - 162 points Denmark - 149 points Azerbaijan - 145 points
Singing schoolgirl rekindles German love for Europe
By Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin
Published: May 31 2010 03:00 | Last updated: May 31 2010 03:00
A 19-year-old schoolgirl this weekend rekindled Germany's much-tested love for Europe by winning the Eurovision Song Contest for the country for the first time since 1982.
Past few weeks since May 1st Azerbaijani contestant at Eurovision 2010 Safura has spent cruising around Europe in a promo tour. One of her stops was at Germany where Safura gave many interviews and made a couple of appearances in Munich, Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg.
The Armenian sang about an apricot, the Albanian praised Jesus Christ, and the Ukrainian railed against nuclear Holocaust. But in the end, victory at the 55th annual Eurovision Song Contest went to Lena Meyer-Landrut, a 19-year old German whose song blurred the line between puppy love and psychotic obsession. "This is so absolutely awesome. I feel that this is not real," she said on stage after being handed a crystal microphone-shaped trophy in Oslo's Telenor Arena. "I'm kind of freaking out." (See the 50 worst inventions of all time.)
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Geändert von simon (01.06.2010 um 17:53 Uhr)
Grund: gekürzt
Lena Meyer-Landrut, the 19-year-old German winner of the 55th Eurovision Song Contest, is to defend her title at next year's event - the first winner to do so since the Netherlands' Corry Brokken in 1957/1958.
The surprise decision was announced in a statement by Stefan Raab, who wrote and produced several tracks on Lena's debut studio set "My Cassette Player" (USFO/Universal) and produced the German TV show "Our Star For Oslo" in which the artist was chosen as Germany's 2010 Eurovision entry. Raab is a popular TV host and comedian in Germany, as well as a musician/producer and songwriter.
THE Eurovision Song Contest (Sunday, 7.30pm on SBS One) is 54 years old and remains as idiosyncratic and idiotic as ever. The format goes like this: first, we watch 25 different performances from 25 countries. Then we watch highlights of those 25 songs. Twice.
Then we spend a whole hour trying to stay awake during the judging process, which is usually about as gripping as Teflon.
And then finally, a winner is announced.
Germany still in 'Lena epidemic' after Eurovision win
By Johnny Summerton.
Germany is still celebrating its win last weekend in the Eurovision Song Contest, when Lena sang her way to victory with "Satellite" and there's even talk of her representing the country again next year when it hosts the competition.
Anyone who followed the Eurovision Song Contest[/URL] held in the Norwegian capital Oslo last weekend surely knows by now that the winner was the German entry "Satellite" sung by Lena.
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