Английская Википедия:Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024

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Austria is set to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden. The Austrian broadcaster Шаблон:Lang (ORF) internally selected Kaleen as the country's representative with the song "We Will Rave".

Background

Шаблон:Main Prior to the 2024 contest, Austria has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifty-five times since its first entry in Шаблон:Escyr. The nation has won the contest on two occasions: in Шаблон:Escyr with the song "Шаблон:Lang" performed by Udo Jürgens and in Шаблон:Escyr with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix" performed by Conchita Wurst. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the Шаблон:Escyr, Austria has featured in only eight finals. Austria's least successful result has been last place, which they have achieved on eight occasions, most recently in Шаблон:Escyr. Austria has also received nul points on four occasions; in Шаблон:Escyr, Шаблон:Escyr, Шаблон:Escyr and Шаблон:Escyr.

The Austrian national broadcaster, Шаблон:Lang (ORF), broadcasts the event within Austria and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. In Шаблон:Esccnty and since Шаблон:Esccnty, ORF has held an internal selection to choose the artist and song to represent Austria at the contest. On 14 June 2023, ORF's program director Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz confirmed the broadcaster's intentions to participate at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest and to continue to internally select their representative.

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

In July 2023, ORF scouts Peter Schreiber and Шаблон:Ill (who had worked on the selection of Austrian entries since Шаблон:Esccnty) started making open calls for interested artists to contact them by 30 September 2023, receiving more than sixty entries by that date. An expert committee, headed by Forcher, shortlisted fourteen artists, who were invited to the ORF headquarters in Vienna in order to shoot videoclips for their songs and were ultimately assessed by a 25-member jury and six Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs at an audition round. In early September 2023, ORF's head of entertainment Martin Gastinger had commented on the possibility of holding a national final or a public online vote among the shortlisted finalists rather than a fully internal selection; however, this was later reconsidered for "legal reasons", with the selected performer planned to be announced in December 2023; this was ultimately not the case and the announcement was scheduled for 16 January 2024, during the Шаблон:Lang show on Hitradio Ö3. The selected artist was revealed to be Kaleen; she has previous experience in the contest, having worked as a stand-in singer, dancer, creative director and choreographer for various countries since 2018. Her competing entry, "We Will Rave", is set to be released in early March; it has been anticipated that it is a "techno-inspired pop track" co-written by Jimmy Thörnfeldt alongside two other Swedish songwriters.

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will take place at the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden, and consist of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 7 and 9 May and the final on 11 May 2024. All nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final will progress to the final. On 30 January 2024, an allocation draw was held to determine which of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show, each country will perform in; the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. Austria was scheduled for the first half of the second semi-final.

In a joint meeting held in Munich in September 2023, ORF and German-language broadcasters ARD for Шаблон:Esccnty and SRF for Шаблон:Esccnty renewed their plans to cooperate on the broadcast of Eurovision-themed programmes Шаблон:Lang and Шаблон:Lang in 2024, as they did for the 2023 contest.