Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992
| Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1992 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) | |||
| Country |  Switzerland | |||
| Selection process | Internal selection among entries from Concorso Eurovisione della Canzone 1992 | |||
| Selection date | 13 April 1992 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Mister Music Man" | |||
| Artist | Daisy Auvray | |||
| Songwriters | Gordon Dent | |||
| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 15th, 32 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Switzerland was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 with the song "Mister Music Man", written by Gordon Dent, and performed by Daisy Auvray. The Swiss participating broadcaster, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), selected its entry through a national final.
Before Eurovision
Regional selections
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) held a national final to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1992. Each division of SRG SSR — Swiss German and Romansh broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen der deutschen und rätoromanischen Schweiz (SF DRS), Swiss French broadcater Télévision suisse romande (TSR), and Swiss Italian broadcaster Televisione 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 or Liechtenstein.[1]
TSR and SF DRS internally selected their songs,[2] however it is unknown how TSI selected theirs. In total, 142 songs were submitted (with 38 being invalid), of which ten were ultimately selected: three in French and Italian and four in German.[3]
Concorso Eurovisione della Canzone 1992
TSI staged the national final on 23 February 1992 at 20:25 CET at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano.[4] It was hosted by Alessandra Marchese. The national final was broadcast on TSI, TSR (with commentary from Ivan Frésard),[5] and SF.[5] Richard Clayderman and Sandra Simó— who represented Switzerland in 1991 —, made guest appearances.[4]
Initially, only nine songs were due to compete,[4] however "Soleil, soleil" by Géraldine Olivier was eventually added to the lineup.[6]
| R/O | Artist(s) | Song | Songwriter(s) | Language | |
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| Composer | Lyricist | ||||
| 1 | Philippe Roussel | "Immer gewinnen kannst du nicht" | Toni Amatoni | German | |
| 2 | K. Loren | "Un monde sans musique" | Pierre Collet | French | |
| 3 | Guido Bugmann | "Heut' nacht" |
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Guido Bugmann | German |
| 4 | Renato Mascetti | "Non sei piu la mia bambina" | Renato Mascetti | Italian | |
| 5 | Daisy Auvray | "Mister Music Man" | Gordon Dent | French[a] | |
| 6 | Daniel Stein | "Es geht uns alle an" | Bela Balint | Salvatore Ingrassia | German |
| 7 | Mary | "Vento da nord" | Mario Robbiani | Italian | |
| 8 | Michel Audrey | "Marie-Blanche" | Michel Audrey | Jean-Jacques Egli | French |
| 9 | Mario D'azzo | "Apro le mani" | Mario D'azzo | Italian | |
| 10 | Géraldine Olivier | "Soleil, soleil" | Peter-Jörg Wassermann | Géraldine Olivier | German[b] |
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.[8][9] The winner was the song "Soleil, soleil", composed by Peter-Jörg Wassermann and written and performed by Géraldine Olivier.
| Draw | Artist | Song | Regional Juries | Press Jury |
Expert Jury |
Total | Place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRS | TSI | TSR | |||||||
| 1 | Philippe Roussel | "Immer gewinnen kannst du nicht" | 6 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 35 | 4 |
| 2 | K. Loren | "Un monde sans musique" | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 7 |
| 3 | Guido Bugmann | "Heut' nacht" | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 9 |
| 4 | Renato Mascetti | "Non sei più la mia bambina" | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 8 |
| 5 | Daisy Auvray | "Mister Music Man" | 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 45 | 2 |
| 6 | Daniel Stein | "Es geht uns alle an" | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 10 |
| 7 | Mary | "Vento da nord" | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 33 | 5 |
| 8 | Michel Audrey | "Marie-Blanche" | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 38 | 3 |
| 9 | Mario D'Azzo | "Apro le mani" | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 30 | 6 |
| 10 | Géraldine Olivier | "Soleil, soleil" | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 51 | 1 |
Disqualification and replacement
On 9 April, it was announced that Géraldine Olivier was disqualified due to her song being submitted in both the TSR (in French, where it was rejected) and SF DRS preselections, which breached a rule regarding song submissions— songs cannot be submitted twice to the regional selections by the same artist.[2][6] Additionally, the song was also added to the lineup late— even though only nine songs were set to compete, with 3 songs per language —, and was selected for the national final after the submission deadline.[6] Runner-up Daisy Auvray later filed a lawsuit against SRG SSR for the oversight of the breach in rules.[2]
On 13 April, it was announced that runner-up Daisy Auvray would replace Olivier and represent Switzerland instead with her song "Mister Music Man".[10] It was previously speculated that she would have done so following Olivier's disqualification.[6]
At Eurovision
At the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, held at the Malmö Isstadion in Malmö, the Swiss entry was the thirteenth entry of the night following Finland and preceding Luxembourg. The Swiss conductor at the contest was Rody Seidel. At the close of voting, Switzerland had received 32 points in total; finishing in fifteenth place out of twenty-three countries.
Voting
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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Notes
References
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- ^ a b c "Nationales Eurovisions-Finale — Siegerin disqualifiziert" [National Eurovision Final — Winner disqualified]. Der Bund (in German). Vol. 143, no. 85. 10 April 1992. p. 13. Retrieved 30 March 2025 – via E-newspaperarchives.ch.
- ^ a b "Eurovision 1992 — Die Finalisten stehen fest" [Eurovision 1992 — The finalists have been announced]. Bieler Tagblatt (in French). No. 1. 3 January 1992. p. 12. Retrieved 29 March 2025 – via E-newspaperarchives.ch.
- ^ a b c d "Canzone svizzera, una voce per conquistare l'Europa — Finale nazionale per il Concorso Eurovisione" [Swiss song, a voice to conquer Europe — National final for the Eurovision Contest]. Giornale del Popolo (in Italian). Locarno, Switzerland. 9 July 1991. p. 12. Retrieved 30 March 2025 – via Eco di Locarno.
- ^ a b "Sur TSI: Concours Eurovision de la chanson" [On TSI: Eurovision Song Contest]. Journal du Nord vaudois, Feuille d’avis des districts d’Yverdon, Grandson et Orbe, Journal d’Yverdon et Feuille d’Avis de Ste-Croix (in French). Vevey, Switzerland. 22 February 1992. p. 3. Retrieved 30 March 2025 – via Scriptorium.
- ^ a b c d "Lauréate déboulonnée! — Qui représentera la Suisse au grand prix Eurovision de la chanson?" [Winner Deposed! — Who will represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest?]. Le nouvelliste (in French). Vol. 25, no. 83. 9 April 1992. p. 12. Retrieved 30 March 2025 – via E-newspaperarchives.ch.
- ^ "Nationale finale Zwitserland 1992". Eurovision Artists. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ a b c Concorso Eurovisione della Canzone 1992 (Video) (in Italian). 23 February 1992.
- ^ "En route pour l'Eurovision" [On the road to Eurovision]. TV8 (in French). Vevey, Switzerland. 20 February 1992. p. 11. Retrieved 30 March 2025 – via Scriptorium.
- ^ "Daisy Auvray für die Schweiz am Euro-Concours — Nach der Disqualifikation von Geraldine Olivier" [Daisy Auvray for Switzerland at the Euro-Concours — After the disqualification of Geraldine Olivier]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). No. 88. Bern, Switzerland. 14 April 1992. p. 9. Retrieved 30 March 2025 – via E-newspaperarchives.ch.
- ^ a b "Results of the Final of Malmö 1992". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
