eurovision 1956
Freddy Quinn
Freddy Quinn represented Germany at Eurovision 1956 in Lugano with “So geht das jede Nacht”; only the winner was announced that year.
- who
- Austrian singer-actor
- born
- 27 September 1931
- contest
- 1956
- active
- 1953 to 2009
- sang for
- Germany
Biography
Freddy Quinn is a former Austrian singer and actor who became hugely popular in the German-speaking world in the late 1950s and the 1960s. “So geht das jede Nacht” was one of Germany’s two songs in Lugano in 1956; the results of that first contest were never published beyond the name of the winner.
Written by ESC Predictions, 8 October 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, “Freddy Quinn”.
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At Eurovision
One song, and what became of it.
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1956 Lugano
“So geht das jede Nacht”
Placing not published Only the winner was announced that year. The other placings were never published.
- Sung in
- German
- Written by
- Peter Moesser, Lotar Olias
- Conductor
- Fernando Paggi
- Running order
- 11th of 14
- Age on the night
- 24
- Won that year
- Switzerland: Lys Assia, “Refrain”
The story of Eurovision 1956: Seven countries, fourteen songs, and a result nobody kept
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Away from Eurovision
Awards
- Honorary Lock keeper 1981
- Goldene Stimmgabel 1984, 1996
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1984
- Paul-Lincke-Ring 1997
- Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna
- Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
As recorded on Wikidata, which is rarely the whole list.
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