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Baller (song)
"Baller" (; ) is a song by Austrian music duo Abor & Tynna from their debut studio album, . It was released on 24 January 2025 through Jive Records. "Baller" represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. It gained popularity across Europe in the weeks after Eurovision and experienced strong chart success throughout the continent. It reached number one in Lithuania and Latvia, the top five in Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria as well as the top 10 in Finland and Poland. "Baller" is the first Eurovision Song Contest entry from Germany performed entirely in German since 1998. Background and composition Following his highly anticipated comeback to television in 2024, German entertainer and songwriter Stefan Raab was announced as the head presenter of the 2025 selection through a show called '' Chefsache ESC 2025 – Wer singt für Deutschland?'' After multiple unsatisfying placements in previous years, German broadcasters ARD and RTL joined forces with Raab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abor & Tynna
Abor & Tynna are an Austrian music duo of Hungarian and Romanian descent consisting of siblings Attila (born 27 August 1998) and Tünde Bornemisza (born 22 December 2000). They specialise in pop, hip-hop and electronic music. The duo represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song " Baller", where they finished 15th overall with 151 points. History Pre-Abor & Tynna The siblings are of Hungarian and Romanian origin and grew up in a family of artists from Hungary. Their father Csaba Bornemisza (born 1966) has been a cellist with the Vienna Philharmonic, the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, since 1993. All siblings received classical music lessons: Attila trained in cello, Tünde played the flute from the age of nine (she won first prizes in state and national competitions), their younger sister trained in violin. Tünde and Attila studied psychology and mechanical engineering respectively.''Chefsache ESC 2025 – Wer singt für Deutschland?'' vom 1. März ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland
The (RND) () is the Hanover-based joint corporate newsroom A newsroom is the central place where journalists—reporters, editing, editors, and Television producer, producers, associate producers, news anchors, news designers, photojournalists, videojournalists, associate editor, residence editor, visu ... of German . The biggest limited partner of Madsack is the , which is fully owned by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Madsack has the majority in regional newspapers with a circulation of roughly a million copies published in Northern and Eastern Germany (states of Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Thüringen, Hessen, and Sachsen-Anhalt). Including partner newspapers, RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland claims a coverage of roughly four million readers. In a modernization effort, the central editor office was founded in 2013 with the chief editor of the '' Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung'' taking over the lead. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princ Od Vranje
Stefan Zdravković ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Здравковић; born 29 September 1993), known professionally as Princ od Vranje ( sr-Cyrl, Принц од Врање, lit=Prince of Vranje) or simply Princ, is a Serbian singer. He represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song " Mila". Early life and education Stefan Zdravković was born in Vranje, and has lived in Belgrade since 2002. He was the Serbian national champion and vice-champion in karate, and also competed for the national team. In high school, at the age of 15, he began to play music, when he founded the band Šesta Žica with his friends. He is a philologist by profession, having graduated from the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Literature and Culture, Norwegian Language, at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. Career 20162021: Early career Zdravković sings, plays the guitar and drums. Since 2016, he has been the lead singer of the band Sisyphus. In 2020, he was cast in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuval Raphael
Yuval Raphael (; born 5 November 2000) is an Israeli singer. Having won the eleventh season of the singing competition ''HaKokhav HaBa'', she represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "New Day Will Rise", finishing in second place. Biography Raphael is the niece of businesswoman and comes from Ra'anana, Israel. She was born in Tel Aviv and grew up in Pedaya. She spent three years of her childhood in Geneva, Switzerland. As a child, she listened to rock bands such as Led Zeppelin and the Scorpions, and singers such as Beyoncé and Céline Dion. After finishing high school, Yuval served as a checkpoint combat soldier in the Jerusalem area with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). She began singing professionally in 2024. Raphael was attending the Nova Sukkot Gathering music festival in Re'im on 7 October 2023, when Hamas militants attacked the festival. She hid inside a Death Shelter near kibbutz Be'eri with 50 other people, while sustaining shrapnel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Five (Eurovision)
The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster submits an original song representing its country to be performed and broadcast live to all of them via the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner. The contest was inspired by and based on the Italian Sanremo Music Festival, held in the Italian Riviera since 1951. Eurovision has been held annually since 1956 (except for due to the COVID-19 pandemic), making it the longest-running international music competition on television and one of the world's longest-running television programmes. Active members of the EBU and invited associate members are eligible to compete; broadcasters from 52 countries have participated at least once. Each participating broadcaster sends an original song of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; , UER) is an alliance of Public broadcasting, public service media organisations in countries within the European Broadcasting Area (EBA) or who are member states of the Council of Europe, members of the Council of Europe. , it is made up of 123 member organisations from 56 countries, and 31 associate members from a further 20 countries. It was established in 1950, and has its administrative headquarters in Geneva. The EBU owns and operates the Eurovision (network), Eurovision and Euroradio telecommunications networks on which major television and radio broadcasts are distributed live to its members. It also operates the daily Eurovision news exchange in which members share breaking news footage. In 2017, the EBU launched the Eurovision Social Newswire, an eyewitness and video verification service. Led by Head of Social Newsgathering, Derek Bowler, the service provides members of the EBU with verified and cleared-for-use newsworthy eyewitn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basel
Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland and the city is famous for its many Museums in Basel, museums, including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum, which is the first collection of art accessible to the public in the world (1661) and the largest museum of Swiss art, art in Switzerland, the Fondation Beyeler (located in Riehen), the Museum Tinguely and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel), Museum of Contemporary Art, which is the first public museum of contemporary art in Europe. Forty museums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The (; ''FAZ''; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt and is considered a newspaper of record for Germany. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' (; ''FAS''). The paper runs its own network of correspondents. Its editorial policy is not determined by a single editor, but cooperatively by four editors. History The first edition of the ''FAZ'' appeared on 1 November 1949; its founding editors were Hans Baumgarten, Erich Dombrowski, Karl Korn, Paul Sethe and Erich Welter. Welter acted as editor until 1980. Some editors had worked for the moderate '' Frankfurter Zeitung'', which had been banned in 1943. However, in their first issue, the ''FAZ'' editorial expressly refuted the notion of being the earlier paper's successor, or of continuing its legacy: Until 30 September 1950, the ''FAZ'' was printed in Mainz. Traditionally, many of the headlines in the ''FAZ'' were styled in bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; ) is an orchestra that was founded in 1842 and is considered to be one of the finest in the world. The Vienna Philharmonic is based at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Its members are selected from the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Selection involves a lengthy process, with each musician demonstrating their capability for a minimum of three years' performance for the opera and ballet. After this probationary period, the musician may request an application for a position in the orchestra from the Vienna Philharmonic's board. The Vienna Philharmonic hires no musician over 35 years of age, and has a mandatory retirement age of 65; 30 years of service are required for full pension. History Precursors and formation Until the 1830s, orchestral performance in Vienna was done by ''ad hoc'' orchestras, consisting of professional and (often) amateur musicians brought together for specific performances. In 1833, Franz Lachner formed the forerunner of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Santos (singer)
Nico Wellenbrink (born 7 January 1993), professionally known as Nico Santos or occasionally as Santos or Santi, is a German singer-songwriter. In 2017, after having been featured on Topic's hit "Home" (2015), he released his breakthrough solo single "Rooftop", which reached the top five in German-speaking Europe, Poland and Slovakia, as well as number one in the Czech Republic. It also received several certifications, including triple gold by the German (BVMI) and quintuple platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Switzerland (IFPI SWI). Santos' debut studio album, ''Streets of Gold'', was issued in October 2018 and yielded other moderately successful singles alongside "Rooftop", such as "Safe" (2018) and "Unforgettable" (2019). In May 2020, Universal Music Group released his self-titled second record, which fared well commercially and featured three top 40 hits on the German singles chart—" Better" (2019), "Play with Fire" (2019) and "Like I L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conchita Wurst
Thomas Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988) is an Austrian singer, fashion designer, human rights activist and drag queen who is known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst (or simply Conchita). He came to international attention after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 as with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix". Neuwirth has stated that he is not a trans woman. He is gay, and has also described himself as a drag queen. Born in Gmunden, Neuwirth moved to Graz to do his ''Matura'' exam with a focus on fashion, before embarking on a singing career through the 2007 casting show ''Starmania (TV series), Starmania''. He subsequently became a founding member of ''Jetzt Anders!'', a short-lived boy band. In 2011, Neuwirth began appearing as Conchita—a female character noted for her beard—and came second in the Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Austrian pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Two years later, Neuwirth was selected to represent Austria as Conchita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunte
''Bunte'' (company's preferred spelling in capital letters) is a German-language weekly celebrity gossip magazine published by Hubert Burda Media. The first edition was published in 1948 under the name ''Das Ufer''. Under the leadership of Hubert Burda, ''Bunte'' developed into a modern popular magazine. In 2014, Bunte was the 11th most popular media brand in Germany, with 10.57 million monthly users. After Patricia Riekel stepped down, Robert Pölzer took over as Editor-in-Chief in July 2016. History After the end of World War II, the French authorities commissioned ex-Nazi publisher Franz Burda to come up with an illustrated magazine and, following their request, he released the first edition in 1948 under the name ''Das Ufer''. Whereas the editorial section was initially provided by the French authorities, an independent editorial team emerged at the end of the 1950s. From the beginning, the magazine reported on a wide variety of events in society. In 1953, marking the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
