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Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Country Germany
National selection
Selection processUnser Lied für Israel
Selection date(s)22 February 2019
Selected artist(s)S!sters
Selected song"Sister"
Selected songwriter(s)Laurell Barker
Marine Kaltenbacher
Tom Oehler
Thomas Stengaard
Finals performance
Final result25th, 24 points
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Germany participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The German entry was selected through the national final Unser Lied für Israel, organised by the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).

As a member of the "Big 5", Germany automatically qualified to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Background

Main article: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2019 Contest, Germany had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest sixty-two times since its debut as one of seven countries to take part in 1956.[1] Germany has won the contest on two occasions: in 1982 with the song "Ein bißchen Frieden" performed by Nicole and in 2010 with the song "Satellite" performed by Lena. Germany, to this point, has been noted for having competed in the contest more than any other country; they have competed in every contest since the first edition in 1956 except for the 1996 contest when the nation was eliminated in a pre-contest elimination round. In 2018, the German entry "You Let Me Walk Alone" performed by Michael Schulte placed fourth of twenty-six competing songs with 340 points.

The German national broadcaster, ARD, broadcasts the event within Germany and delegated the selection of the nation's entry to the regional broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). NDR confirmed that Germany would participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest on 19 May 2018.[2] In 2018, the multi-artist national final Unser Lied für Lissabon determined both the song and performer to compete at Eurovision for Germany. For their 2019 entry, ARD organised a national final with the same procedure.[2]

Before Eurovision

Unser Lied für Israel

Unser Lied für Israel (English: Our Song for Israel) was the competition that selected Germany's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The competition took place on 22 February 2019 at the Studio Berlin Adlershof in Berlin, hosted by Linda Zervakis and Barbara Schöneberger.[3] Seven acts competed during the show with the winner being selected through a combination of votes from a 100-member Eurovision panel, a twenty-member international expert jury panel and public voting.[4] The show was broadcast on Das Erste, One and Deutsche Welle as well as online via ARD's official website daserste.de.[5] The national final was watched by 2.99 million viewers in Germany.

Format

The competition featured seven competing acts performing a song especially written for Eurovision and the winner was selected through a combination of votes from a 100-member Eurovision panel, a 20-member international expert jury panel and public voting.[6] The international jury panel consisted of members who had been national juries for their respective countries at the Eurovision Song Contest, while the Eurovision panel consisted of German television viewers selected in cooperation with Simon-Kucher & Partners and Digame through surveys on social media in order to reflect the taste of the wider European audience.

Competing entries

Interested artists were able to apply for the competition by submitting an application between 19 May 2018 and 31 July 2018. By the end of the process, it was announced that 965 applications were received by NDR and an expert panel narrowed the total number of applicants to 198 artists.[7] Twenty candidates were selected by the twenty-member international jury panel from fifty shortlisted by the 100-member Eurovision panel, who went through a workshop organised by NDR at the Maarwegstudio 2 in Cologne between 28 September and 2 October 2018 where they received vocal coaching and choreography training and the six competing acts were selected through a 50/50 combination of votes from the international jury panel and the Eurovision panel. The six participating acts were announced on 8 November 2018.[8] Between 5 and 9 November 2018, the competing acts worked with twenty-four national and international songwriters, composers and producers in a songwriting camp in order to create new songs or edit existing songs for the national final. 25 songs were created at the songwriting camp and the international jury panel and the Eurovision panel selected six competing entries for the national final. On 8 January 2019, S!sters were announced as the seventh participating act selected by the international and Eurovision panel from additional proposals received by NDR from producers and artists themselves.

Artist Song Composer(s)
Aly Ryan "Wear Your Love" Aly Ryan, Michelle Leonard, Thomas Stengaard, Tamara Olorga
BB Thomaz "Demons" BB Thomaz, Andrew Tyler, Ricardo Bettiol, Tim Schou
Gregor Hägele "Let Me Go" Gregor Hägele, Jonas Shandel, David Jürgens, Tamara Olorga
Lilly Among Clouds "Surprise" Elisabeth Brüchner, Udo Rinklin
Linus Bruhn "Our City" Linus Bruhn, Dave Roth, Pat Benzner, Serhat Sakin, Simon Reichardt, Gianna Roth
Makeda "The Day I Loved You Most" Makeda, Tim Uhlenbrock, Kelvin Jones, Kristine Bogan
S!sters "Sister" Laurell Barker, Marine Kaltenbacher, Tom Oehler, Thomas Stengaard

Final

The televised final took place on 22 February 2019. The winner, "Sister" performed by S!sters, was selected through a combination of votes from a 100-member Eurovision panel (1/3), a twenty-member international jury panel (1/3) and public voting (1/3), including options for landline and SMS voting. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, 2010 German Eurovision entrant Lena, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, performed her single "Thank You" and 2018 German Eurovision entrant Michael Schulte performed his single "Back to the Start". German singers Udo Lindenberg and Andreas Bourani performed their single "Radio Song" and German band Revolverheld also performed.[10][11] 374,313 votes were cast in the final.

Unser Lied für Israel – 22 February 2019
Draw Artist Song Eurovision
Panel 		International
Jury 		Televote Total Place
1 Gregor Hägele "Let Me Go" 592 5 100 4 26,053 5 14 6
2 Aly Ryan "Wear Your Love" 991 12 125 6 39,503 7 25 4
3 Makeda "The Day I Loved You Most" 840 10 186 10 39,480 6 26 2
4 BB Thomaz "Demons" 566 4 117 5 20,697 4 13 7
5 Lilly Among Clouds "Surprise" 789 8 158 7 83,677 10 25 3
6 Linus Bruhn "Our City" 782 7 167 8 71,490 8 23 5
7 S!sters "Sister" 640 6 187 12 93,413 12 30 1

Promotion

S!sters made several appearances across Europe to specifically promote "Sister" as the German Eurovision entry. On 6 April, they performed at the Eurovision in Concert at the AFAS Live venue in Amsterdam, hosted by Cornald Maas and Marlayne, to over 4500 spectators.[12] They also made several radio & television promotions for "Sister" in Germany.

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 took place at Expo Tel Aviv in Tel Aviv, Israel and consisted of two semi-finals on 14 and 16 May and the final on 18 May 2019.[13] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big 5" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. As a member of the "Big 5", Germany automatically qualifies to compete in the final. In addition to their participation in the final, Germany is also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals.

Final

Germany performed fourth in the final, following the entry from Czech Republic and preceding the entry from Russia. At the end of the show, Germany placed 25th, receiving a total of 24 points: 0 points from the televoting and 24 points from the juries. With the old voting system, Germany would have ranked 24th with 8 points.

Voting

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member, as well as the nation's televoting results, were released shortly after the grand final.[14]

Points awarded to Germany

Points awarded to Germany (final)
Televote
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Jury
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

Points awarded by Germany

Split voting results

The following five members comprised the German jury:[14]

Split voting results from Germany (Semi-final 2)
Draw Country Jury Televote
M. Schulte A. Louisan N. Santos N. Rost J. Chialo Average Rank Points Rank Points
01  Armenia 8 15 11 12 15 12 12
02  Ireland 15 14 8 14 17 14 17
03  Moldova 17 13 10 18 11 15 18
04   Switzerland 1 4 5 4 3 3 8 1 12
05  Latvia 12 16 12 11 12 13 16
06  Romania 13 2 6 8 9 7 4 14
07  Denmark 10 5 7 7 2 6 5 11
08  Sweden 3 10 2 6 5 4 7 6 5
09  Austria 5 8 14 9 18 10 1 13
10  Croatia 16 12 13 16 14 17 8 3
11  Malta 4 7 3 5 7 5 6 15
12  Lithuania 18 18 18 15 16 18 10 1
13  Russia 9 11 15 13 10 11 4 7
14  Albania 14 17 17 10 13 16 9 2
15  Norway 7 6 9 17 6 9 2 2 10
16  Netherlands 2 3 4 2 4 2 10 3 8
17  North Macedonia 6 1 1 1 1 1 12 5 6
18  Azerbaijan 11 9 16 3 8 8 3 7 4
Split voting results from Germany (final)
Draw Country Jury Televote
M. Schulte A. Louisan N. Santos N. Rost J. Chialo Average Rank Points Rank Points
01  Malta 8 8 6 13 7 8 3 24
02  Albania 19 22 21 6 14 14 16
03  Czech Republic 12 20 16 16 13 16 18
04  Germany
05  Russia 18 19 19 8 8 13 3 8
06  Denmark 11 15 9 11 10 10 1 7 4
07  San Marino 25 24 24 25 15 24 25
08  North Macedonia 5 3 7 1 5 4 7 15
09  Sweden 9 14 4 12 11 9 2 10 1
10  Slovenia 14 10 17 19 23 17 8 3
11  Cyprus 15 11 14 22 16 15 21
12  Netherlands 3 4 5 4 3 3 8 4 7
13  Greece 21 12 18 20 25 22 19
14  Israel 23 23 23 18 21 25 20
15  Norway 7 5 11 10 4 6 5 1 12
16  United Kingdom 24 16 15 17 18 21 22
17  Iceland 20 13 20 15 17 19 9 2
18  Estonia 22 21 22 14 24 23 14
19  Belarus 16 7 8 21 19 11 23
20  Azerbaijan 10 18 25 9 9 12 13
21  France 6 9 12 3 12 7 4 11
22  Italy 1 1 1 2 2 1 12 5 6
23  Serbia 17 17 10 23 20 18 17
24   Switzerland 2 6 2 7 6 5 6 2 10
25  Australia 4 2 3 5 1 2 10 6 5
26  Spain 13 25 13 24 22 20 12

References

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  10. ^ "Lena ist Stargast beim deutschen Vorentscheid" (in German). Eurovision.de. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  11. ^ Granger, Anthony. "Germany: Andreas Bourani Completes Line Up of Interval Acts at Unser Lied für Israel". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  12. ^ "This was Eurovision in Concert 2019 in Amsterdam". Eurovision.tv. 6 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Tel Aviv to host Eurovision 2019! - Eurovision Song Contest Israel 2019". eurovision.tv. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  14. ^ a b Groot, Evert (30 April 2019). "Exclusive: They are the judges who will vote in Eurovision 2019!". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 30 April 2019. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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