Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest

Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Member station	RTL
National selection events	Internal selection 1956–1958 ; 1960–1964 ; 1965 (artist) ; 1966–1970 ; 1972–1975 ; 1977 ; 1979–1988 ; 1989 (artist) ; 1990–1991 ; 1992 (artist) ; 1993 ; National final 1965 (song) ; 1971 ; 1976 ; 1978 ; 1989 (song) ; 1992 (song) ;
Participation summary
Appearances	37
Host	1962, 1966, 1973, 1984
First appearance	1956
Highest placement	1st: 1961, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1983
Nul points	1970
External links
	Luxembourg's page at Eurovision.tv
	For the most recent participation see; Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993

Luxembourg has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 37 times since making its debut at the first contest in 1956. Between 1956 and 1993, Luxembourg missed only the 1959 contest. Luxembourg has not participated in the contest since its last participation in 1993, but will return to the contest in 2024. Luxembourg has won the contest five times. Only Ireland and Sweden (seven) have more wins.

Luxembourg's first victory was in 1961, when Jean-Claude Pascal won with "Nous les amoureux". France Gall then won in 1965 with "Poupée de cire, poupée de son". Luxembourg achieved back-to-back victories in the early 1970s, with Vicky Leandros winning with "Après toi" in 1972 and Anne-Marie David with "Tu te reconnaîtras" in 1973. Luxembourg's fifth victory was in 1983, when Corinne Hermes won with "Si la vie est cadeau". After hosting the 1984 contest, Luxembourg struggled to make an impact, only reaching the top ten twice, with Sherisse Laurence third (1986) and Lara Fabian fourth (1988). After being relegated from taking part in 1994, the country did not participate in the contest up to 2023. Luxembourg is set to return to the contest in 2024.[1]

Participation overview

Due to the country's small size and the national broadcaster's penchant for internal selection, most of Luxembourg's entrants came from outside the Grand Duchy, mainly from France. Solange Berry, Plastic Bertrand and Lara Fabian were from Belgium, Nana Mouskouri and Vicky Leandros from Greece, David Alexandre Winter and Margo from the Netherlands, Ireen Sheer and Malcolm Roberts from the United Kingdom, Geraldine from Ireland, Jürgen Marcus and Chris Roberts from Germany, Baccara from Spain, Jeane Manson, Maggie Parke and Diane Solomon from the United States and Sherisse Laurence from Canada. Of the five winners who represented Luxembourg, four were French and one was Greek.

Out of 38 entries in total, only the following nine entrants were native to Luxembourg: Camillo Felgen, Chris Baldo, Monique Melsen, Sophie Carle, Franck Olivier, Park Café, Sarah Bray, Marion Welter and Modern Times. Another singer native to Luxembourg, Mary Christy, represented Monaco in the 1976 contest, finishing in third place.

Table key
1	Winner
2	Second place
3	Third place
◁	Last place
†	Upcoming

Year	Entrant	Song	Language	Final	Points	Semi
1956	Michèle Arnaud	"Ne crois pas"	French	—[lower-alpha 1]	—[lower-alpha 1]	No semi-finals
1956	Michèle Arnaud	"Les Amants de minuit"	French	—[lower-alpha 1]	—[lower-alpha 1]
1957	Danièle Dupré	"Amours mortes (tant de peine)"	French	4	8
1958	Solange Berry	"Un grand amour"	French	9 ◁	1
1960	Camillo Felgen	"So laang we's du do bast"	Luxembourgish	13 ◁	1
1961	Jean-Claude Pascal	"Nous les amoureux"	French	1	31
1962	Camillo Felgen	"Petit bonhomme"	French	3	11
1963	Nana Mouskouri	"À force de prier"	French	8	13
1964	Hugues Aufray	"Dès que le printemps revient"	French	4	14
1965	France Gall	"Poupée de cire, poupée de son"	French	1	32
1966	Michèle Torr	"Ce soir je t'attendais"	French	10	7
1967	Vicky	"L'Amour est bleu"	French	4	17
1968	Chris Baldo and Sophie Garel	"Nous vivrons d'amour"	French	11	5
1969	Romuald	"Catherine"	French	11	7
1970	David Alexandre Winter	"Je suis tombé du ciel"	French	12 ◁	0
1971	Monique Melsen	"Pomme, pomme, pomme"	French	13	70
1972	Vicky Leandros	"Après toi"	French	1	128
1973	Anne-Marie David	"Tu te reconnaîtras"	French	1	129
1974	Ireen Sheer	"Bye Bye I Love You"	French, English	4	14
1975	Géraldine	"Toi"	French	5	84
1976	Jürgen Marcus	"Chansons pour ceux qui s'aiment"	French	14	17
1977	Anne-Marie B	"Frère Jacques"	French	16	17
1978	Baccara	"Parlez-vous français ?"	French	7	73
1979	Jeane Manson	"J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux"	French	13	44
1980	Sophie and Magaly	"Papa Pingouin"	French	9	56
1981	Jean-Claude Pascal	"C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique"	French	11	41
1982	Svetlana	"Cours après le temps"	French	6	78
1983	Corinne Hermès	"Si la vie est cadeau"	French	1	142
1984	Sophie Carle	"100% d'amour"	French	10	39
1985	Margo, Franck Olivier, Diane Solomon, Ireen Sheer, Malcolm Roberts and Chris Roberts	"Children, Kinder, Enfants"	French, German, English	13	37
1986	Sherisse Laurence	"L'Amour de ma vie"	French	3	117
1987	Plastic Bertrand	"Amour, Amour"	French	21	4
1988	Lara Fabian	"Croire"	French	4	90
1989	Park Café	"Monsieur"	French	20	8
1990	Céline Carzo	"Quand je te rêve"	French	13	38
1991	Sarah Bray	"Un baiser volé"	French	14	29
1992	Marion Welter and Kontinent	"Sou fräi"	Luxembourgish	21	10
1993	Modern Times	"Donne-moi une chance"	French, Luxembourgish	20	11	Kvalifikacija za Millstreet
2024	Confirmed intention to participate †[1]

Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest

Entrant	Song	Language	At Congratulations				At Eurovision
Entrant	Song	Language	Final	Points	Semi	Points	Year	Place	Points
France Gall	"Poupée de cire, poupée de son"	French	Failed to qualify		14 ◁	37	1965	1	32

Hostings

Year	Location	Venue	Presenter
1962	Luxembourg	Villa Louvigny	Mireille Delannoy
1966		Villa Louvigny	Josiane Chen
1973		Nouveau Théâtre Luxembourg	Helga Guitton
1984		Théâtre Municipal	Désirée Nosbusch

Conductors

Year	Conductor	Musical Director	Notes	Ref.
1956	Jacques Lasry	N/A		[2]
1957	Willy Berking		Host conductor
1958	Dolf van der Linden
1960	Eric Robinson
1961	Léo Chauliac
1962	Jean Roderes		[lower-alpha 2]
1963	Eric Robinson	N/A	Host conductor
1964	Jacques Denjean
1965	Alain Goraguer
1966	Jean Roderes		[lower-alpha 3]
1967	Claude Denjean	N/A
1968	André Borly
1969	Augusto Algueró		Host conductor
1970	Raymond Lefèvre			[3]
1971	Jean Claudric
1972	Klaus Munro
1973	Pierre Cao
1974	Charles Blackwell	N/A
1975	Phil Coulter
1976	Jo Plée
1977	Johnny Arthey
1978	Rolf Soja
1979	Hervé Roy
1980	Norbert Daum			[4]
1981	Joël Rocher
1982	Jean Claudric
1983	Michel Bernholc
1984	Pascal Stive	Pierre Cao	[lower-alpha 4] Host Conductor
1985	Norbert Daum	N/A
1986	Rolf Soja
1987	Alec Mansion
1988	Régis Dupré
1989	Benoît Kaufman		Host conductor
1990	Thierry Durbet
1991	Francis Goya
1992	Christian Jacob
1993	Francis Goya

Commentators and spokespersons

Through the 37 years Luxembourg took part in the Eurovision Song Contest, the contest was broadcast on two channels (RTL TV and RTL Hei Elei), but the contest was mostly broadcast on the French section of RTL until it was divided in 1991 and after that it was broadcast in Luxembourgish. However, only one commentator, Maurice Molitor, was native to Luxembourg.

Year	Television commentator	Radio commentator	Spokesperson
1956	Commentary via RTF	No radio broadcast	No spokesperson
1957			Pierre Bellemare
1958			Pierre Bellemare
1959			Did not participate
1960			Unknown
1961			Unknown
1962	Nicole Védrès		Robert Diligent
1963	Commentary via ORTF		Unknown
1964
1965
1966	Jacques Navadic		Camillo Felgen
1967			Unknown
1968
1969
1970		Camillo Felgen
1971			No spokesperson
1972
1973
1974			Unknown
1975			Unknown
1976		André Torrent	Jacques Harvey
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981	Jacques Navadic and Marylène Bergmann
1982	Marylène Bergmann
1983	Valérie Sarn
1984	Valérie Sarn and Jacques Navadic
1985	Valérie Sarn		Frédérique Ries
1986
1987
1988			Jean-Luc Bertrand
1989
1990
1991
1992	Maurice Molitor	Unknown	Unknown
1993	Maurice Molitor	Unknown	Unknown
1994–2023	No broadcast		Did not participate
2024	TBA

Photogallery

Solange Berry in Hilversum (1958)
Camillo Felgen in Luxembourg (1962)
France Gall in Naples (1965)
David Alexandre Winter in Amsterdam (1970)
Jürgen Marcus in The Hague (1976)
Sophie and Magaly in the Hague (1980)

Notes and references

Notes

The 1956 contest had secret voting and, apart from the winner, no results were released.
Also conducted the Spanish entry.
Also conducted the Belgian and Swiss entries.
Cao conducted the Cypriot and German entries.

References

"Luxembourg to return to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2024". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 12 May 2023.
Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 93–101. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
Roxburgh, Gordon (2014). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. Two: The 1970s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 142–168. ISBN 978-1-84583-093-9.
Roxburgh, Gordon (2016). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. Three: The 1980s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84583-118-9.

External links

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[esc_1956-2] The 1956 contest had secret voting and, apart from the winner, no results were released.

[4] Also conducted the Spanish entry.

[5] Also conducted the Belgian and Swiss entries.

[8] Cao conducted the Cypriot and German entries.

[return-1] "Luxembourg to return to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2024". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 12 May 2023.

[3] Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 93–101. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.

[6] Roxburgh, Gordon (2014). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. Two: The 1970s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 142–168. ISBN 978-1-84583-093-9.

[7] Roxburgh, Gordon (2016). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Vol. Three: The 1980s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84583-118-9.

Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest
Participation	1956 1957 1958 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993
Artists	Michèle Arnaud Hugues Aufray Baccara Anne-Marie B Chris Baldo Solange Berry Sarah Bray Sophie Carle Céline Carzo Anne-Marie David Danièle Dupré Lara Fabian Camillo Felgen France Gall Sophie Garel Géraldine Corinne Hermès Kontinent Sherisse Laurence Vicky Leandros Margo Jeane Manson Jürgen Marcus Monique Melsen Modern Times Nana Mouskouri Franck Olivier Park Café Jean-Claude Pascal Plastic Bertrand Chris Roberts Malcolm Roberts Romuald Ireen Sheer Diane Solomon Sophie and Magaly Svetlana Michèle Torr Marion Welter David Alexandre Winter
Songs	"100% d'amour" "À force de prier" "Les Amants de minuit" "L'Amour de ma vie" "L'Amour est bleu" "Amour, Amour" "Amours mortes (tant de peine)" "Après toi" "Un baiser volé" "Bye Bye I Love You" "Catherine" "Ce soir je t'attendais" "C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique" "Chansons pour ceux qui s'aiment" "Children, Kinder, Enfants" "Cours après le temps" "Croire" "Dès que le printemps revient" "Donne-moi une chance" "Frère Jacques" "Un grand amour" "J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux" "Je suis tombé du ciel" "Monsieur" "Ne crois pas" "Nous les amoureux" "Nous vivrons d'amour" "Papa Pingouin" "Parlez-vous français ?" "Petit bonhomme" "Pomme, pomme, pomme" "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" "Quand je te rêve" "Si la vie est cadeau" "So laang we's du do bast" "Sou fräi" "Toi" "Tu te reconnaîtras"