Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990

Austria was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 with the song "Keine Mauern mehr", composed by Marc Berry and Nanna Berry, with lyrics by Mario Botazzi, and performed by Simone Stelzer. The Austrian participating broadcaster ORF, organised a national final in order to select its entry for the contest. The national final was won by the song "Das Beste" performed by Duett, but it was disqualified later, and the runner-up "Keine Mauern mehr" was declared the Austrian entry for Eurovision.

Before Eurovision

National final

ORF held the national final on 15 March 1990 at Studio Z1 of the ORF-Zentrum in Vienna, hosted by Lizzi Engstler, who represented as part of the duo, Mess.
The winner was decided through a mixture of televoting and an expert jury. The winner of the final was the song "Das Beste" performed by Duett.

	Artist	Song	Percentage	Place
1	Alex	"Freiheit"	16.3%	7
2	Gruppe Papageno	"Papagena"	25.4%	3
3	Stefanie Pascal	"Mit dir geh'n"	12.3%	9
4	Nika	"Ein kleiner Stern"	16.4%	6
5	Eugene Price	"Tausend Feuer sind in mir"	16.7%	5
6	Waterloo	"So ein wunderschönes Leben"	23.8%	4
7	Erwin Bros	"Für Kinder sieht das anders aus"	12.7%	8
8	Duett	"Das Beste"	39.3%	1
9	Roxy	"Sandy"	9.9%	10
10	Simone Stelzer	"Keine Mauern mehr"	27.6%	2

Disqualification and replacement

The winning entry was disqualified later after it was revealed it had entered the. The song "Keine Mauern mehr" performed by Simone Stelzer was then declared the winner and the Austrian entry for Eurovision.

At Eurovision

Stelzer performed 20th on the night of the contest, following and preceding. At the close of the voting she had received 58 points, placing 10th of 22 countries competing.

Voting

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