Brandenburger Tor (song)

Brandenburger Tor (song)

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Norway "Brandenburger Tor"


caption =
year = 1990
country = Norway
artist = Ketil Stokkan
as =
with =
language = Norwegian
languages =
composer = Ketil Stokkan
lyricist = Ketil Stokkan
conductor = Pete Knutsen
place = 21st
points = 8
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1990no from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip =
prev = Venners Nærhet
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next = Mrs. Thompson
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"Brandenburger Tor" (English translation: "The Brandenburg Gate") was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990, performed in Norwegian by Ketil Stokkan.

The song is inspired by the collapse of the Berlin Wall, with Stokkan singing about the amazement that many Europeans felt as the Wall came down, and also at the reunification of Berlin, with the titular Brandenburg Gate no longer representing the border between West and East Germany. As befits the triumphant lyrical theme, the song is performed over an up-tempo beat.

The song was performed ninth on the night (following Iceland's Stjórnin with "Eitt lag enn" and preceding Israel's Rita with "Shara Barkhovot"). At the close of voting, it had received 8 points, placing 21st (equal last) in a field of 22.

It was succeeded as Norwegian representative at the 1991 Contest by Just 4 Fun with "Mrs. Thompson".


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