Sehnsucht (English translation: "Longing") was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961, performed in German by Jimmy Makulis. The song was performed third on the night (following Monaco's Colette Deréal with Allons, Allons Les Enfants and preceding Finland's Laila Kinnuen with Valoa Ikkunassa). At the close of voting, it had received one point, placing it 15th in a field of 16 (joint last place with Belgium's September, Gouden Roos, performed by Bob Benny).
Sehnsucht is a German word that literally means "longing". However, Sehnsucht is almost impossible to translate adequately. The stage director and author Georg Tabori called Sehnsucht one of those quasi-mystical terms in German for which there is no satisfactory corresponding term in another language.