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Marcus Klier

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9/Apr 2009 at 14:09

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Liane Augustin representing Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958.  - © EBU
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Austria: Liane Augustin gets a place named after her

Liane Augustin, who represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958, will get a place in Vienna named after her. The Augustinplatz will honour a successful singer and actress who was not only popular in her home country but also in the United States.

The comitee of culture decided to rename the place in the seventh district of Vienna last October. Currently, the place is named after Marx or Markus Augustin, but it was decided that more street names and places shall be named after women.

Liane Augustin was born in Berlin but her family moved to Austria when she was a teenager. After a successful career with performances all over the world, she died in Vienna in 1978 at the age of only 49. She was the second Austrian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 with the song Die ganze Welt braucht Liebe finishing fifth in a field of ten participants. She had been chosen internally be the broadcaster.

Liane Augustin in Hilversum, 1958:


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Tie Break [15413]
Sun 12 Apr 2009 20:58:40

Ok, let's not get sarcastic. Even Sigmund Freud has a park in Vienna named after him. Lol.


Poppy Pickette [54713]
Fri 10 Apr 2009 08:02:20

Nice gesture :)


La Mark - Mooftastic [57246]
Thu 9 Apr 2009 18:01:41

awwwwwwwww. She was so sweet and adorable !! :D :D


Jesse Kuiper [17503]
Thu 9 Apr 2009 17:15:34

So atm it's called Augustinplatz, and it will be renamed... Augustinplatz. See how ridiculous political correctness can get.


Ramon Ramos [16974]
Thu 9 Apr 2009 15:46:14

I can imagine Chikilicuatre square in the centre of Barcelona or Soraya's Avenue in Madrid. It would be also nice to change the name of the royal palace in Oslo, for example Rybak's Palace and the Royal Secret Gardens. In Berlin, the Bundestag can be renamed as Bundeskisskiss and The Hermitage in Saint Petersbourg should dedicate some rooms to Philipp Kirkorov and Alla Pugachova


Emma Kiernan [52359]
Thu 9 Apr 2009 14:46:18

thats nice i want a street named after me imagine: Emmakiernan street! :L :L :L


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