International Press

[Melanie]

Eurovision winner to defend crown in 2011

Lena Meyer-Landrut, Germany's winner, to perform at next year's song contest in her home country


http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010...end-crown-2011

[Humphrey]

05/06/2010 EPOCA - Lisboa

“Lena, te amamos!”
A Europa festeja a cantora alemã Lena Meyer-Landrut que venceu o festival da canção do continente
Paulo Nogueira, de Oslo

http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revist...TE+AMAMOS.html

[Humphrey]

Carta de Berlim : Essa tal de Lena
Brasilia 6.6.10

Quelle: oglobo.globo.com

[Humphrey]

Lena erobert Spanien: Einstieg in die Charts, Presse alarmiert
Madrid 6.6.10

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Quelle : saz-aktuell.com (Spaniens Allgemeine Zeitung / deutschsprachige Online-Tageszeitung)

[Melanie]

How Lena helped the new Germany get its mojo back



IF you want to understand how Europe's most powerful country has changed, just take a look at the pretty 19-year-old brunette who won the Eurovision last weekend and compare her to the only other German Eurovision winner, who claimed the prize 28 years ago with a sappy ballad calling for a little more peace in the world.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/...k-2208916.html

[Melanie]

If someone understand Russian:

The Russkaja Germanija (a Russian language newspaper in Germany) and the MK (another Russian language newspaper in Germany) have articles about Lena.

[Melanie]

The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1225873201567

[Melanie]

Here is one of the best international articles about Lena.
Germany drags Eurovision into the 21st Century

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertain...s/10192518.stm

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Here is one of the best international articles about Lena.
Germany drags Eurovision into the 21st Century

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertain...s/10192518.stm

This is what Lena is about.

Her refreshingly direct performance reflected a vivacious, playful personality.

[Melanie]

The most impartant part of the article

Not only has she signalled an end to a politically-motivated, 13-year losing streak for the "big four" countries who help fund the competition, but her winning song, Satellite, has reclaimed the contest's musical credibility.
With echoes of Lily Allen and Paloma Faith, it is the first contemporary pop hit Eurovision has produced in decades.

Remarks:

I think this is a great honour for a newcomer from Germany to be compared with one of the greatest singers from the UK. The last Eurovision victory for a big four country was the classic Love Shine A Light by Katrina and the Waves

[Nick Name]

Yay, a really great article! And very funny too!

Indeed, there were so many seductive women with manes of hair billowing into the wind, that you began to think the audience consisted entirely of wind machines.

But amidst all the hotpants, fireworks and questionable haircuts (I'm looking at you, Serbia) it was a lone 19-year-old pop singer who made the biggest impression.

[Ritter der Lilie]

Some links to reactions in the swedish press

http://www.schwedentipps.se/blog/len...dien-schweden/

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Some links to reactions in the swedish press

http://www.schwedentipps.se/blog/len...dien-schweden/

well, not really for english speaking people, because all swedisch reactions are translated into german

[noireht]

aus Litauen:

http://www.15min.lt/naujiena/zmones/...iere-27-102698

[noireht]

aus der Schweiz:
http://www.20min.ch/life/musik/story...rvt---17835444