Sandra Studer the television presenter and singer who represented Switzerland in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest will be returning to Swiss Television's regular schedule on Sunday nights. She will take over the presentation duties for the Swiss cultural series Klanghotel beginning next month on the 30th September.
Sandra Studer, a favourite with German speaking Swiss television audiences, has not had a regular series since the Swiss music show Takito almost 10 years ago. Instead she's known for hosting gala events and other mega-spectacles like the Eurovision Song Contest which she often attends as the Swiss German-language commentator. Now she's taking over the Swiss broadcaster's weekly cultural magazine Klanghotel which looks at the international music, dance and theatre scenes with a focus on Swiss artists.
Swiss Television is promising a completely revised and overhauled series when she takes over next month, but Sandra's fans should not expect a red-carpet spectacle like they might be used to from the high-society Eurovision Song Contest commentator. Ms. Studer told the Blick newspaper that the revitalized show will be "klein, fein und intim" – or "a small but very fine, intimate experience".
Swiss audiences did not hear Sandra's commentary this year from Helsinki, the mother of three was at home near Zürich with her newest child born last year.
Sandra Studer studied music theory at the University of Zürich and represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest in Rome with the Italian-language song Canzone per te. In Rome, Sandra Studer performed as Sandra Simo using her mother's Spanish maiden name; she finished in fifth place.
