Elisabeth Engstler

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Elisabeth "Lizzi" Engstler (born May 6, 1960, in

singer who took part in the Eurovision Song Contest with the duo Mess
in 1982.

Life and career

Elisabeth Engstler grew up in the Seehotel Engstler on Wörthersee.[1] After school, she began to study medicine in Vienna, but did not finish. In 1982 she represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest with Michael Scheickl as the duo "Mess" with the song Sonntag and reached ninth place. The duo released the titles Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So oder so, Träumen von Olivenbäumen, Cabrio and Ich will ein Eis as well as the two English versions of their competition entry Honey Bee and Sunday. Mess then disbanded.

Engstler began studying at the

Wiener Festwochen, she completed her training in 1986. Since then, she has presented Ferienexpress for ORF, from 1987 Wurlitzer, Ich und Du, Die große Chance, Happy End, from 1995 to 2007 alongside Wolfram Pirchner Willkommen Österreich and Frisch gekocht. In 2005, she received the Romy
as the most popular presenter.

Until 1996, she presented radio programs such as Querstadtein and Autofahrer unterwegs. Since 1997, she has been performing as a singer again and released a CD with love songs and musical hits under the title Endlich wieder Musik.

Alternating with

Dancing Stars. With her partner Alexander Zaglmaier, she took second place behind her ORF colleague Dorian Steidl with partner Nicole Kuntner
. In March 2009 she published Mein Chaos-Kochbuch. The audio CD Sehnsucht was released in 2011. From January 7, 2014, until the end of 2014, Elisabeth Engstler hosted Frisch gekocht again.

Since September 2017, Elisabeth Engstler has played the role of hotel manager Romy Edler in the jukebox musical I Am from Austria.[3]

In 2020, she recorded the announcements for the Badner Bahn.[4] As part of the Sommernachtskomödie Rosenburg in 2023, she played the role of Queen Elizabeth in a stage version of Shakespeare in Love directed by Marcus Ganser.[5]

Awards

  • 2005: Golden Romy as most popular presenter (Audience Award)

References

  1. ^ Vgl. Sommer, Sonne, Strandgeflüster. Auftakt zur Starnacht. Sendung in ORF 2 am 9. Juli 2011.
  2. ^ Archived (Date missing) at kundendienst.orf.at (Error: unknown archive URL) auf kundendienst.orf.at, abgerufen am 24. August 2010.
  3. ^ "Musical Vienna - I Am From Austria" (in German). Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  4. ORF.at
    . 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  5. ORF.at
    . 2023-06-11. Retrieved 2023-06-12.

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