Years > Eurovision Song Contest 1983
Contest details
Location: Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, München, Germany
Broadcaster: ARD
Host(s): Marlene Charell
Participating countries: 20
Voting: Each country allocated 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point to the top 10 of the national jury in descending order.
Participants
Eurovision Song Contest 1983
| country | participant(s) | song | pts | rnk | ||
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20 | Luxembourg | Corinne Hermès | Si la vie est cadeau | 142 | 1 |
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16 | Israel | Ofra Haza | Hi | 136 | 2 |
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4 | Sweden | Carola Häggkvist | Främling | 126 | 3 |
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12 | Yugoslavia | Danijel | Dzuli | 125 | 4 |
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14 | Germany | Hoffmann und Hoffmann | Rücksicht | 94 | 5 |
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3 | United Kingdom | Sweet Dreams | I'm never giving up | 79 | 6 |
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11 | The Netherlands | Bernadette | Sing me a song | 66 | 7 |
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1 | France | Guy Bonnet | Vivre | 56 | 8 |
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18 | Austria | Westend | Hurricane | 53 | 9 |
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2 | Norway | Jahn Teigen | Do re mi | 53 | 9 |
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5 | Italy | Riccardo Fogli | Per Lucia | 41 | 11 |
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9 | Finland | Ami Aspelund | Fantasiaa | 41 | 11 |
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17 | Portugal | Armando Gama | Esta balada que te dou | 33 | 13 |
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10 | Greece | Christie | Mou les | 32 | 14 |
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8 | Switzerland | Mariella Farré | Io così non ci sto | 28 | 15 |
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13 | Cyprus | Stavros and Constantina | I agapi akoma zi | 26 | 16 |
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15 | Denmark | Gry Johansen | Kloden drejer | 16 | 17 |
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19 | Belgium | Pas de Deux | Rendez-vous | 13 | 18 |
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6 | Turkey | Çetin Alp and the Short Wave | Opera | 0 | 19 |
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7 | Spain | Remedios Amaya | ¿Quién maneja mi barca? | 0 | 19 |
Click here for a full crostable of the votes (available after the contest)
Eurovision Song Contest 1983
With Italy, France and Greece back in competition and Ireland stepping out for one year there were 20 countries again. It was not a spectacular show this time, there were no postcard movies and the stage was rather dull. Host Marlene Charell tried to announce each song in English, French and German, which was pretty hard for her, and so she made a lot of mistakes. During the voting she made thirteen further mistakes. Eventually it was Luxembourg to win the 28th Eurovision Song Contest, the 5th victory for the small country.