"Weil's dr guat got" was the Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996

Eurovision Song Contest 1996

The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 18 May 1996 in Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway. The presenters were Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket. Harket, lead singer of a-ha, opened the show with a performance of his single "Heaven's Not For Saints". Eimear...

, performed in Vorarlbergish

High Alemannic German

High Alemannic is a branch of Alemannic German and is often considered to be part of the German language, even though it is only partly intelligible to non-Alemannic speakers....

 (a dialect of Austrian German

Austrian German

Austrian German , or Austrian Standard German, is the national standard variety of the German language spoken in Austria and in the autonomous Province of South Tyrol...

) by George Nussbaumer, who lost his eyesight before the age of 1.

The song was performed eighth on the night, following Croatia

Croatia

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's Maja Blagdan

Maja Blagdan

Maja Blagdan is a Croatian pop singer.She began her singing career in a rock band, Stijene, in 1986.Later she had a solo career. Her first solo album was released in 1993....

 with "Sveta ljubav

Sveta ljubav

"Sveta ljubav" was the Croatian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, performed in Croatian by Maja Blagdan.The song was performed seventh on the night, following Malta's Miriam Christine with "In A Woman's Heart" and preceding Austria's George Nussbaumer with "Weil's dr guat got"...

" and preceding Switzerland

Switzerland

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's Kathy Leander

Kathy Leander

Kathy Leander is a Swiss singer.She was born in the village of Alle in the Canton of Jura, Switzerland, on May 24, 1963 as Catherine Meyer. From the age of thirteen, she sang in the choir at her home village church and performed at several local events....

 with "Mon coeur l'aime

Mon coeur l'aime

"Mon cœur l'aime" was the Swiss entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, sung in French by Kathy Leander. The song was written and composed by Soren Mounir....

". At the close of voting, it had received 68 points, placing 10th in a field of 23.

This was the second occasion on which Austria was represented in a dialect of German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 (the first being Marianne Mendt

Marianne Mendt

Marianne Mendt is an Austrian jazz singer and actress, best known for her participation in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest.- Early career :...

 with "Musik

Musik (song)

"Musik" was the Austrian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed in Viennese by Marianne Mendt....

" in 1971

Eurovision Song Contest 1971

The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the sixteenth Eurovision Song Contest and the first held in Dublin, Ireland. The new voting system that was introduced in this Eurovision did have one big problem: some juries gave fewer points out than others...

).

The song itself is about the enjoyment to be had in the world when everything is going well. Unusually, it is performed in an up-tempo gospel

Gospel music

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-influenced style. Nussbaumer leads the song on a piano, with a series of backing singers providing appropriate responses.

It was succeeded as Austrian representative

Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest

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 at the 1997 contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1997

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 by Bettina Soriat

Bettina Soriat

Bettina Soriat is an Austrian singer.Bettina Soriat is a singer, dancer, actress, comedienne, and choreographer. Her first success came with the girlgroup "Three Girl Madhouse" and their single-hit "Always gonna be around you" was released in 1990.Bettina has appeared in musicals in Vienna,...

 singing "One Step

One Step

"One Step" was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, performed in German almost exclusively by Bettina Soriat....

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