The Russian ESC winner of 2008, Dima Bilan (right), with the former model and ex-spy in the USA as well as successful TV presenter Anna Chapman (left) at a Fashion Week 2011 in Moscow
Foto: picture alliance / dpa | Dmitry Korobeinikov
“Now I am no longer afraid of February on the toes,” Walther von der Vogelweide joined when he received a fief of his art of sealing and singing from Frederick II. Probably the most famous minstrel in the Middle Ages had not had to dare to show how the only preserved authentic documentary mention of his name testifies, the snippet of a travel expense statement in one of his benefactors, the Passauer Bishop Wolfgar of November 12, 1203: »Walther, the singer from Vogelweide , for a fur coat five shillings. ”Thanks to the blessing of the Stauferkaiser, he then took care of it forever.
The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest often have this. Dima Bilan, who won the ESC for Russia in 2008, hardly knows anyone in the West. Although supporters of Putin’s party “some Russia” and populist views, he campaigned against the ban on a LGBT parade in Moscow and to remove homophobic MPs. Nevertheless, he was put on the sanction list by Kiev and Ottawa. Before that, the ESC excluded Russia whether the attack on Ukraine – that, noted by the way, and the winner, each with four second and third places, was more successful than Germany.
Putin now counters with its own song contest, called “Intervision”. The first edition should start in autumn. The occupation of the organization committee with men from his closest environment, including the Vice Prime Minister and the Vice Presidential Office, as well as the presumably 20 willing states of participation suggest that it will be a propaganda show. Perhaps not as clumsy as in the “singing war” on the Wartburg, where it was about who understood his prince best to praise the most impressive. In any case, national competition on stages is more bearable than on battlefields.
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