Stage designer Florian Wieder has confirmed he would be willing to do the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest stage design if he was asked. Florian has been the designer of seven past Eurovision stages in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. In 2022 Florian Wieder did submit a proposal however they went for Italian designer Francesca Montinaro’s set design instead.
Florian Wieder on potential Eurovision 2023 stage design
Florian Wieder has confirmed in an interview with German newspaper DWDL that if he was asked by the BBC he would be up for designing the Eurovision 2023 stage. When asked about it in an interview he said the following:
I’ve never thrown my hat into the ring at the ESC. We were always asked, but not by the EBU but by the broadcaster of the host country. Sometimes there are tenders, sometimes someone is simply commissioned directly. If we are asked, we will definitely present a concept. That’s what we did in Italy. But whether a call comes from the UK, we will have to wait and see. The ESC is a mammoth event charged with a lot of meaning, so the awarding of contracts is sometimes to be understood from a patriotic point of view.
Florian Wieder on potentially designing the Eurovision 2023 stage
Eurovision Song Contest 2023
After Ukraine won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, it was revealed that Ukraine will not host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. The hosting duties were then passed to the runners-up; the United Kingdom. At the time of writing, seven cities have been shortlisted to host next year’s competition, with their bids due to be submitted on the 8th of September. The shortlisted cities are as follows:
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News Source: DWDL
Photo Credit: EBU/Florian Wieder
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