Alf Poier

Alf Poier
Background Information
Origin	Judenburg, Styria
Birth date	22 February 1967
Death date	N/A
Age	58
Eurovision Song Contest
Country	Austria
Year	2003
Song	Weil der Mensch zählt
Semi Position	--
Semi Points	--
Final Position	6th
Final Points	101

Alf Poier is an Austrian artist and stand-up comedian. He represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga with his song Weil der Mensch zählt. The song and his stage act were a parody of the contest's excesses. He secured a 6th place - Austria's best result of the 21st century, until the 2014 contest in Copenhagen where Austria achieved its second victory in the contest, with Conchita Wurst.

Although his result was considerably better than most of the pre-contest predictions, Poier spent several hours mischievously telling anyone that would listen that his 'low' placing was an outrage, that Europe had demonstrably shown itself to have no musical taste, and that he wasn't sure if the shame would permit him to return to Austria.

In 2005 Poier attempted to resprent Austria for a second time only to be "narrowly" beaten by folk band Global Kryner. Poier was able to - very loudly - claim a moral victory after it emerged that his song had actually garnered the most votes (2nd place with 106.000 for Poier, 1st place with 60.000 for Global Kryner), and had only been thwarted by the regional points system that was used.

In 2011 he was a candidate for the online voting round of the Austrian national final, but didn't make it to the final.