| Musikantenstadl | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Music |
| Format | Entertainment/ Music |
| Country of origin | Austria |
| Language(s) | German |
| Broadcast | |
| Original airing | 5 March 1981 |
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| Website | |
Musikantenstadl is a live television entertainment program broadcast in the German language throughout Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It features Austrian and German popular folk music (Schlager, Volkstümliche Musik), international pop and folk music as well as interviews and comedy. As a production of Eurovision, is co-produced by the Österreichischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Schweizer Fernsehen[1]. Aside from the live television broadcasts it also tours in Austria and Germany as live concerts. It is currently hosted by Andy Borg and its location of broadcast varies between towns in different regions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It occasionally broadcasts from other countries such as Slovenia in 1985, China in 1999 and Croatia in 2011.
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Musikantenstadl's first episode was broadcast from Enns, Austria hosted by Karl Moik with Hias Mayer providing humor until the early 1990s.
In 2005, Andy Borg became host of the revamped program, with the German comedy duo "Waltraud & Mariechen" (Volker Heißmann & Martin Rassau) providing humor.
From the first Musikantenstadl episode broadcast in Enns Austria, each episode would be filmed with an increasingly large audience in a major stadium or hall. Each episode is situated in a different city in either Austria, Germany or Switzerland. Occasionally an episode is filmed in a foreign country in cooperation with a local television network, including Canada in 1994 and Australia in 1995. Although the program's set changed in 2005 with a new host, Musikantenstadl continues to feature local and foreign Schlager, Volkstümliche Musik (music) groups and popular singers with interviews, small-talk and other variety acts. Since 1989 an extended episode of Musikantenstadl is aired live on New Year's Eve, called Silvesterstadl, also held at a venue with a live audience. Occasionally a 'Best Of' episode is aired, featuring highlights from Musikantenstadl's most recent episodes.