Dancing Stars (Austrian TV series)
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Dancing Stars is the Austrian version of Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...

and is shown on "ORF eins" in Austria.

History

The first season of "Dancing Stars" started airing in Autumn of 2005 on ORF1
ORF1
ORF eins is an Austrian television channel. It was the first television channel in Austria, started in 1955.ORF eins is one of four public TV channels in Austria. ORF eins broadcasts TV series and featured films, whereas ORF2 focuses on cultural programming and information. ORF Sport Plus is the...

, the second season started in Spring 2006, the third season in Spring of 2007, the fourth season in 2008 and the fifth season in 2009.
Dancing Stars hosts:

In Season 1, 2 and 3 the show was hosted by Alfons Haider (Main Host) and Mirjam Weichselbraun
Mirjam Weichselbraun
Mirjam Weichselbraun is an Austrian television host.Her first experience in broadcasting was with the regional radio station Antenne Tirol in 1999 and she first appeared in front of the camera in 2001 on the culture program Das Magazin on the channel TV Tirol.In 2000, she was voted the BRAVO-Girl...

 (Backstage and Interviews).
In Season 4 Mirjam Weichselbraun replaced Alfons Haider and winner of Season 3 Klaus Eberhartinger took her place. In Season 5, Mirjam Weichselbraun was the main host while Alfons Haider took Klaus Eberhartingers place.
Judges:

In the first season, the dancers were judged by professional dance sport judges Hannes Nedbal and Nicole Burns-Hansen, dance school owner Thomas Schäfer-Elmayer and former musical actress, singer and dancer Dagmar Koller. In the second season, Harald Serafin, operetta singer and theater manager, filled in for Dagmar Koller. In the third season, Guggi Löwinger, actress, singer and dancer, took his place. In the fourth season, Klaus Eberhartinger replaced Alfons Haider as a host who therefore joined the judging panel. In the fifth season, the two men switched places again with Klaus Eberhartinger judging beside Hannes Nedbal, Nicole Burns-Hansen and Thomas Schäfer-Elmayer who were judges in all five seasons.

Season 1

In the first season, no couple had to leave the first show and only two pairs were left in the final show.
In all other seasons, one couple had to leave the first show and three pairs were left in the final show. In the fourth season, the final show was split on two evenings. In the fifth season, men and women were split for the first two shows (qualification rounds).
  • Mat Schuh (Singer and Entertainer) with Kelly Kainz (8th place)
  • Arabella Kiesbauer
    Arabella Kiesbauer
    Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer is a TV presenter, writer and actress. She grew up in Vienna with her grandmother after her mother Hannelore and her father Sammy Ammissah separated.While she studied journalism and dramaturgy she started to work as presenter with the Austrian public service...

     (Host) with Balázs Ekker (7th place)
  • Peter Rapp (ORF Host) with Julia Polai (6th place)
  • Patricia Kaiser (Miss Austria 2000 and track and field athlete) with Alexander Kreissl (5th place)
  • Stefano Bernardin (Actor) with Christina Auer (4th place)
  • Barbara Rett (ORF Host) with Manfred Zehender (3rd place)
  • Toni Polster (Ex soccer player) with Michaela Heintzinger (2nd place)
  • Marika Lichter (Musical actress) with Andy Kainz (winner)
    couple 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
    marika&andy 24 27 23 29 28 32+36=68 33+34=67 Example
    toni&michaela 27 27 30 33 34 31+36=67 35+37=72 Example
    barbara&manfred 24 24 27 25 28 26+29=55 30+27=57
    stefano&christina 29 31 32 27 29 31+28=59
    patricia&alexander 21 28 25 27 27
    peter&julia 23 21 21 24
    arabella&balaz 22 24 26
    mat&kelly 19 22

Season 2

  • Gerda Rogers (Astrologer) with Andy Kainz (10th place)
  • Ulrike Beimpold (Actress and Comedian) with Manfred Zehender (9th place)
  • Edi Finger jun. (Radio-sportscaster) with Nicole Kuntner (8th place)
  • Barbara Karlich (Talkshow Host) with Alexander Zaglmaier (7th place)
  • Gregor Bloéb (Actor) with Michaela Heintzinger (6th place)
  • Simone Stelzer
    Simone Stelzer
    Simone Stelzer alias Simone is an Austrian pop singer. She was born in Vienna, Austria on 1 October 1969.In 1990 she participated in "Ein Lied für Zagreb", the Austrian qualifying heat for the Eurovision Song Contest. Her song "Keine Mauern mehr" was initially placed second...

     (Singer) with Alexander Kreissl (5th place)
  • Hans Georg Heinke (Journalist and Newscaster) with Elke Gehrsitz (4th place)
  • Nicole Beutler (Actress) with Balázs Ekker (3rd place)
  • Andreas Goldberger
    Andreas Goldberger
    Andreas Goldberger is a former ski jumper.He was one of the best in his sport during the 1990s...

     (Ex Ski jumper) with Julia Polai (2nd place)
  • Manuel Ortega
    Manuel Ortega
    Manuel Ortega, is an Austrian singer of Spanish parents, born in Steyregg. When he was ten years old, he began his career as a singer. He sang with the Florianer Sängerknaben in one of the oldest choirs from Austria.His love for pop music led to him joining a band called BAFF when he was a...

     (Singer) with Kelly Kainz (winner)

Season 3

  • Timna Brauer
    Timna Brauer
    Timna Brauer is an Austrian singer-songwriter, and the daughter of painter, writer and singer Arik Brauer. She is married to Israeli pianist Elias Meiri with whom she collaborates...

     (Singer and Artist) with Manfred Zehender (10th place)
  • Hera Lind (bestselling author) with Alexander Kreissl (9th place)
  • Stephanie Graf
    Stephanie Graf
    Stephanie Graf is a former Austrian middle distance runner.She finished second to Maria de Lurdes Mutola in the women's 800 meters at both the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Alberta.Her time from the 2000 Olympics, 1:56.64 minutes, is the current...

     (Ex Runner) with Andy Kainz (8th place)
  • Michael Konsel
    Michael Konsel
    Michael Konsel is a retired Austrian football goalkeeper.-Club career:Konsel started his professional career with First Vienna and moved to local rivals Rapid Wien in 1985. He then played a part in the successful Rapid team in the 1980s, claiming the League crown twice and most prominently losing...

     (Ex soccer player) with Nicole Kuntner (7th place)
  • Harry Prünster (Host) with Michaela Heintzinger (6th place)
  • Nina Proll
    Nina Proll
    Nina Proll is an Austrian actress. She has appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1995. She starred in the film September, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival....

     (Actress) with Balázs Ekker (5th place)
  • Michael Tschuggnall (Starmania
    Starmania (TV series)
    Starmania is an Austrian casting show, a talent show for would-be pop stars. It is broadcast on the Austrian TV channel "ORF 1".Despite striking similarities, Starmania is not a licensed version of the Idols format distributed by FremantleMedia. Attempts to export the format to Germany failed due...

    -Winner 2002) with Alice Guschelbauer (4th place)
  • Zabine Kapfinger (Singer) with Alexander Zaglmaier (3rd place)
  • Peter L. Eppinger (Ö3-Host) with Julia Polai (2nd place)
  • Klaus Eberhartinger
    Klaus Eberhartinger
    Klaus Eberhartinger is an Austrian singer and presenter.In Braunau am Inn, Eberhartinger grew up and graduated in 1968. He then stayed for a year in the United States of America, before he began medical studies in Graz. It was in Graz, where he met the sister of Thomas Spitzer, who had founded...

     (Singer, EAV
    Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
    The EAV is an Austrian band that got together in 1977....

    -Frontman) with Kelly Kainz (winner)

Season 4

  • Claudia Stöckl (Ö3-Host) with Alexander Kreissl (10th place)
  • Peter Tichatschek (Host) with Michaela Heintzinger (9th place)
  • Oliver Stamm (Beach volleyball player) with Julia Polai (8th place)
  • Christine Reiler
    Christine Reiler
    Christine Reiler is a beauty queen who represented Austria in Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China, and she became one of the top 16 semifinalists. Reiler is studying Medicine and would like to join Médecins sans Frontières and work in the Third World.In private, she had a relationship with Austrian...

     (Miss Austria 2007) with Manfred Zehender (7th place)
  • Marc Pircher (Singer) with Kelly Kainz (6th place)
  • Jeannine Schiller (Charity-lady) with Balázs Ekker (5th place)
  • Hans Kreuzmayr (Waterloo & Robinson
    Waterloo & Robinson
    Waterloo & Robinson is an Austrian band, consisting of Johann Kreuzmayr and Josef Krassnitzer . The duo are most famous for representing Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, performing the song My Little World, where they recorded a 5th-place finish with 80 points...

    ) with Alice Guschelbauer (4th place)
  • Elke Winkens (Actress) with Andy Kainz (3rd place)
  • Elisabeth Engstler (ORF Host) with Alexander Zaglmaier (2nd place)
  • Dorian Steidl (ORF Host) with Nicole Kuntner (winner)

Season 5

  • Christoph Fälbl (Actor and comedian) with Julia Polai (12th place)
  • Marie-Christine Friedrich (Actress) with Alexander Zaglmaier (11th place)
  • Andy Lee Lang (Singer and pianist) with Nicole Kuntner (10th place)
  • Gerhard Zadrobilek
    Gerhard Zadrobilek
    Gerhard Zadrobilek is an Austrian former professional road bicycling racer.-Palmarès:198119841987-External links:...

     (Ex cyclist) with Alice Guschelbauer (9th place)
  • Maggie Entenfellner (Columnist) with Gerhard Egger (8th place)
  • Vincent Bueno
    Vincent Bueno
    Vincent Bueno , born in Vienna of Filipino parents is a singer in the Philippines and formerly in Austria....

     (Winner of ORF casting show Musical!) with Christina Auer (7th place)
  • Gitta Saxx (Playmate of the century) with Balázs Ekker (6th place)
  • Sandra Pires
    Sandra Pires
    Sandra Pires Tavares is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Jackie Silva....

     (Singer) with Alexander Kreissl (5th place)
  • Tini Kainrath (Singer) with Manfred Zehender (4th place)
  • Udo Wenders (Singer) with Babsi Koitz (3rd place)
  • Ramesh Nair (Testimonial and choreographer) with Michaela Heintzinger (2nd place)
  • Claudia Reiterer (Journalist and TV host) with Andy Kainz (winner)

Season 6

  • James Cottriall
    James Cottriall
    James Cottriall is an English musician, currently living in Vienna, Austria. He became famous throughout Austria with the success of his debut single "Unbreakable" which spent twenty weeks in the Austrian top 40 charts over the summer of 2010...

     (Singer) with Roswitha Wieland (12th place)
  • Christine Kaufmann
    Christine Kaufmann
    Christine Maria Kaufmann is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured....

     (Golden Globe winning actress) with Werner Figar (11th place)
  • Markus Wolfahrt (Singer) with Alice Guschlbauer (10th place)
  • Reinhard Nowak (Actor) with Kelly Kainz (9th place)
  • Uwe Kröger
    Uwe Kröger
    Uwe Kröger is a famous musical star in the German-speaking countries of the world. Besides starring on stage, Kröger has taken part in numerous galas and concerts, as well as making a few television and film appearances...

     (Singer) with Babsi Koitz (8th place)
  • Dieter Chmelar (Journalist) with Kathrin Menzinger (7th place)
  • Cathy Zimmermann (Model and presenter) with Christoph Santner (6th place)
  • Mirna Jukić
    Mirna Jukic
    Mirna Jukić is an retired former Austrian swimmer of Croatian origin who won a bronze medal in both short course and long course at the world championships in swimming. She is trained by her father Željko Jukić, a former basketball player...

     (Swimmer) with Gerhard Egger (5th place)
  • Alfons Haider (Entertainer) with Vadim Garbuzov (4th place)
  • Mike Galeli (Actor) with Julia Polai (3rd place)
  • Alexandra Meissnitzer
    Alexandra Meissnitzer
    Alexandra Meissnitzer is a retired alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are the Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom disciplines....

    (Alpine skier) with Florian Gschaider (2nd place)
  • Astrid Wirtenberger (Singer) with Balazs Ekker (winner)

Special Episodes

After the final of the second and third season a "Dancing Stars Best of" was aired and after the "Best of" of Season 3 there was a special episode called " Dancing Stars – Die Traumhochzeit" (Dancing Stars – The Dream Wedding) in which the professional ballroom dancers Balázs Ekker and Alice Guschelbauer got married.
Another "Best of" was aired before the start of season 5.
After the fourth season, there was a special episode called "Dance for Europe" in which the couple to represent Austria at the Eurovison Dance Contest 2008 was selected. The couples to participate in this episode were:
  • Julia Polai with Peter L. Eppinger
  • Alexander Kreissl with Simone Stelzer
  • Alice Guschelbauer with Michael Tschuggnall
  • Balázs Ekker with Nicole Beutler
  • Michaela Heintzinger with Gregor Bloéb
  • Manfred Zehender with Christine Reiler
  • Alexander Zaglmaier with Zabine Kapfinger
  • Nicole Kuntner with Dorian Steidl

Andy and Kelly Kainz who represented Austria in the Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 (5th place) did not participate in this special episode due to conflicting schedules.
The winners were Nicole Kuntner and Dorian Steidl who later came second last at the Dance Contest in Glasgow.
Before the start of season four, ORF aired the reality show "Dance with Me" in which the private life of the professional dancers was shown.
During season five, a dance course was aired in which the professional dancers taught the viewers basics of Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Jive, Samba, Paso Doble, English Waltz, Slow Foxtrot, Quickstepp, Tango and Viennese Waltz.

External links

Austria official website
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