Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992

The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) held a national final to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1992. Each division of SRG SSR — Swiss German and Romansh broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen der deutschen und rätoromanischen Schweiz (SF DRS), Swiss French broadcater Télévision suisse romande (TSR), and Swiss Italian broadcaster Televisione Svizzera di lingua italiana (TSI) — used its own method to select its entries for the final.^[1] Eligible songs were required to have been composed by songwriters from Switzerland or Liechtenstein.^[1]

TSR and SF DRS internally selected their songs,^[2] however it is unknown how TSI selected theirs. In total, 142 songs were submitted (with 38 being invalid), of which ten were ultimately selected: three each in French and Italian and four in German.^[3]

TSI staged the national final on 23 February 1992 at 20:25 CET at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano.^[4] It was hosted by Alessandra Marchese. The national final was broadcast on TSI, TSR (with commentary from Ivan Frésard [fr]),^[5] and SF.^[5] Sandra Simó, who represented Switzerland in 1991, and Richard Clayderman made guest appearances.^[4]

Initially, only nine songs were due to compete,^[4] however "Soleil, soleil" by Géraldine Olivier was eventually added to the lineup.^[6]

The voting consisted of regional public votes which were sent to the three divisions of SRG SSR (SF DRS, TSR, TSI: German-Romansh, French, and Italian speaking, respectively), a press jury, and a jury of music experts.^[7][8] The winner was the song "Soleil, soleil", composed by Peter-Jörg Wassermann [de] and written and performed by Géraldine Olivier.

On 9 April, it was announced that Géraldine Olivier was disqualified due to her song being submitted in both the TSR (in French, where it was rejected) and SF DRS preselections, which breached a rule regarding song submissions, specifically that songs could not be submitted twice to the regional selections by the same artist.^[2][6] Additionally, the song was also added to the lineup late, even though only nine songs were set to compete, with 3 songs per language, and was selected for the national final after the submission deadline.^[6] Runner-up Daisy Auvray [fr] later filed a lawsuit against SRG SSR for the oversight of the breach in rules.^[2]

On 13 April, it was announced that runner-up Daisy Auvray [fr] would replace Olivier and represent Switzerland instead with her song "Mister Music Man".^[9] It was previously speculated that she would have done so following Olivier's disqualification.^[6]

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At the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, held at the Malmö Isstadion in Malmö, the Swiss entry was the thirteenth entry of the night following Finland and preceding Luxembourg. The Swiss conductor at the contest was Rody Seidel [fr]. At the close of voting, Switzerland had received 32 points in total; finishing in fifteenth place out of twenty-three countries.

Each participating broadcaster assembled a jury panel with at least eleven members. The jurors awarded 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their top ten songs.

Points awarded to Switzerland[10] Score Country 12 points  Iceland 10 points  Italy 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points  Belgium 4 points  United Kingdom 3 points 2 points 1 point  Ireland

Points awarded by Switzerland[10] Score Country 12 points  France 10 points  Greece 8 points  United Kingdom 7 points  Italy 6 points  Ireland 5 points  Malta 4 points  Israel 3 points  Iceland 2 points  Cyprus 1 point  Netherlands