| Eurovision Song Contest 2011 | ||||
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| Country |  Austria | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Düsseldorf - wir kommen! | |||
| Selection date(s) | Guten Morgen Düsseldorf: 1 February 2011 Final: 25 February 2011 | |||
| Selected artist(s) | Nadine Beiler | |||
| Selected song | "The Secret Is Love" | |||
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (7th, 69 points) | |||
| Final result | 18th, 64 points | |||
| Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Austria participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011 with the song "The Secret Is Love" written by Thomas Rabitsch and Nadine Beiler. The song was performed by Nadine Beiler. In July 2010, the Austrian broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) announced that they would be returning to the Eurovision Song Contest after a three-year absence following their withdrawal in 2008. ORF organised the national final Düsseldorf - wir kommen! in order to select the Austrian entry for the 2011 contest in Düsseldorf, Germany. Thirty songs competed in an online voting round titled Guten Morgen Düsseldorf, of which ten were selected to proceed to the national final. The ten songs competed in a televised show where two rounds of public voting selected the winner. The first round selected the top three entries to proceed to the second round, during which "The Secret Is Love" performed by Nadine Beiler was selected as the winner after gaining 46.73% of the votes.
Austria was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 12 May 2011. Performing during the show in position 2, "The Secret Is Love" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 14 May. This marked the first time that Austria qualified to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest from a semi-final since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004. It was later revealed that Austria placed seventh out of the 19 participating countries in the semi-final with 69 points. In the final, Austria performed in position 18 and placed eighteenth out of the 25 participating countries, scoring 64 points.