Competition: Who will represent Germany at the ESC? audience decides

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Who represents Germany at the ESC? audience decides

More than 900 German musicians and bands have not been deterred by the recent defeats at the Eurovision Song Contest and have applied for the ESC 2022. On March 4th, the audience in Turin, Italy, can decide who should represent our country. There are four to six acts to choose from. They are currently being selected by the German ESC jury, as the Norddeutsche Rundfunk (NDR) announced on Tuesday in Hamburg. Exactly 944 bands and musicians threw their hats in the ring.

Barbara Schöneberger will moderate

The program “Germany 12 Points – the German ESC preliminary decision” will be broadcast live from Berlin on all third programs of the ARD from 8.15 p.m. and will be moderated by Barbara Schöneberger. In addition, the ARD pop waves play the songs of the candidates on the day and call for voting.

The act with the most voting points will finally appear in the ESC finals on May 14th. The jury’s favorites are to be presented on the website www.eurovision.de from February 10th, online voting will start on February 28th.

Various models had recently been tried out for the German preliminary round. In 2020 and 2021 there was a selection for the German act by juries without involving the audience.

Hoping for the end of the bad luck

With the new variant, the ARD hopes to end Germany’s bad luck. Most recently this year in Rotterdam, the Hamburg singer Jendrik landed in 25th place and thus in the penultimate place. At the ESC 2019 (before a compulsory Corona break), the duo S!sters with “Sister” also only got the penultimate place, as did Levina 2017. Others were even the absolute tail lights.

Only Lena (1st place in 2010), Roman Lob (8th place in 2012) and Michael Schulte (4th place in 2018) stand out from recent German ESC history.

dpa