Nur Ein Lied

"Nur ein Lied" ("Only a Song") was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed in German by Thomas Forstner.

The song was performed thirteenth on the night, following Denmark's Birthe Kjær with "Vi maler byen rød" and preceding Finland's Anneli Saaristo with "La dolce vita". At the close of voting, it had received 97 points, placing 5th in a field of 22 entries.

The song is a ballad, with Forstner singing about the power of singing itself to bring peace, love and happiness to the world.

It was succeeded as Austrian representative at the 1990 Contest by Simone singing "Keine Mauern mehr".


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Eurovision Song Contest 1989
Countries
Final
  • Italy
  • Israel
  • Ireland
  • Netherlands
  • Turkey
  • Belgium
  • United Kingdom
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Sweden
  • Luxembourg
  • Denmark
  • Austria
  • Finland
  • France
  • Spain
  • Cyprus
  • Switzerland
  • Greece
  • Iceland
  • Germany
  • Yugoslavia
Artists
Final
  • Anna Oxa & Fausto Leali
  • Gili and Galit
  • Kiev Connolly & The Missing Passengers
  • Justine Pelmelay
  • Pan
  • Ingeborg
  • Live Report
  • Britt Synnøve Johansen
  • Da Vinci
  • Tommy Nilsson
  • Park Café
  • Birthe Kjær
  • Thomas Forstner
  • Anneli Saaristo
  • Nathalie Pâque
  • Nina
  • Fani Polymeri & Yiannis Savvidakis
  • Furbaz
  • Mariana Efstratiou
  • Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson
  • Nino de Angelo
  • Riva
Songs
Final
  • "Avrei voluto"
  • "Derekh Hamelekh"
  • "The Real Me"
  • "Blijf zoals je bent"
  • "Bana Bana"
  • "Door de wind"
  • "Why Do I Always Get it Wrong?"
  • "Venners nærhet"
  • "Conquistador"
  • "En dag"
  • "Monsieur"
  • "Vi maler byen rød"
  • "Nur ein Lied"
  • "La dolce vita"
  • "J'ai volé la vie"
  • "Nacida para amar"
  • "Apopse As Vrethoume"
  • "Viver senza tei"
  • "To Dhiko Su Asteri"
  • "Það sem enginn sér"
  • "Flieger"
  • "Rock Me"

Famous quotes containing the words ein and/or lied:

    “Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strauss waltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.”
    —Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)

    “The difference between guilt and shame is very clear—in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”
    —Lewis B. Smedes, U.S. psychologist, educator. Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don’t Deserve, ch. 2, Harper (1993)