Place 23 at the ESC: Sarah Engels Draws a Surprising Lesson from the Voting

TVS News AI, editorially supervised, presents Place 23 at the ESC: Sarah Engels Draws a Surprising Lesson from the Voting.

Place 23 at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna – for most acts, that would be a bitter disappointment. Sarah Engels (33) sees it differently. The singer comes across surprisingly calmly in her Bild interview and makes clear that she does not measure her own worth by any points table.

Instead of agonizing over the rating, the mother of two draws a lesson from the evening that goes far beyond the music competition. What she takes away from Vienna has surprisingly little to do with the voting.

"I didn't care about the rating at all"

The singer puts it that bluntly herself. While after the ESC the talk is usually all about points and placements, Engels sorts the result soberly into perspective – and devalues it for herself personally.

The insight she takes away from Vienna

In the end, what stands for her is a message that reaches far beyond the music competition. It's about something that no jury in the world can award.

The most important insight for me was that we humans are so much more than any rating on a piece of paper or in any statistic.

Why she takes setbacks more calmly

Engels doesn't stop at the ESC. She transfers her attitude to other areas of life – school grades included.

It doesn't matter at all whether you finish in 23rd place, get a bad grade at school, or whatever. Things in life are sometimes just unfair.

By her own account, this attitude also shapes the way she handles setbacks and disappointments. Letting a points table dictate her self-image – that's not her thing.