On 21 December 2014 , Jürgens died of acute heart failure in Münsterlingen , Switzerland at the age of 80 . With Austria 's success at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest , the first since Jürgens ' success in 1966 , Jürgens expressed his interest in performing in the interval of the next contest . With his death , the organisers of the 2015 contest in Vienna paid tribute to him with a tribute day on 20 May and at the beginning of the grand final
2015 contest in Vienna
Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Udo Jürgens