Dr. Irving Benoît Wolther ("Dr. Eurovision") is a linguist and cultural scientist, journalist and author. He works for the official German Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.de and regularly gives academic lectures on the ESC, including as a guest speaker at the Information Center of the German Embassy in Paris in cooperation with the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 2011 and as a keynote speaker at the "Dare to Dream of Europe" conference of the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Berlin in 2019.