ESC – The Smallest Book About the Greatest Musical Event

Ballads, Glamour, and Politics: Everything You Need to Know About the ESC

The Eurovision Song Contest is a cult phenomenon. This book brings together the funny, the astonishing, the political, and the heartbreaking. In an amusing and entertaining style, Lukas Heinser writes about the most beautiful moments from 70 years of the Grand Prix and uncovers the facts that are truly unknown: from Holocaust survivor Walter Andreas Schwarz, who represented West Germany in 1956, to the question of why so many of the songs sound so familiar to us.

It is the perfect gift for ESC fans and for everyone who will be glued to their screens on May 16th to rank the acts, celebrate, and vote for their favorites.

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  • Publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch
  • Release: 25.03.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-596-52005-3
  • 384 Pages
  • Authors: Lukas Heinser
  • Illustrated by: Sophie Strauß
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Lukas Heinser

Lukas Heinser , born in 1983, is a blogger, journalist, and a renowned ESC expert. In 2010, he collaborated with Stefan Niggemeier on the YouTube channel Oslog to report on Lena’s victory in Oslo; this was followed by the sequels Duslog and Bakublog . Since 2013, he has been at the heart of the action as the assistant to the German commentator (previously Peter Urban, and Thorsten Schorn since 2024), traveling to Malmö, Kyiv, Lisbon, Vienna... and all across Eurovision-Europe. Lukas Heinser lives in Bochum.

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