And suddenly there are only eight left: singer Alina Süggeler and her band Frida Gold had to cancel their participation in the German ESC preliminary round at short notice. The 37-year-old has had such a bad cold that she has lost her voice and cannot be on stage live on Friday night. Then the TV show “Unser Lied für Liverpool” will take place in the MMC Studios in Cologne. Eight juries from eight different countries and the audience will decide which artist will represent Germany at the ESC in Liverpool on May 13th. ARD broadcasts the program very late in the evening, from 10:20 p.m. The station itself calls it a “program planning experiment”.
The best-known applicant for the ESC ticket is certainly Ballermann singer Ikke Hipgold, who had previously won a TikTok vote. The NDR ESC editorial team, together with an advisory team of national and international music experts, decided whether the other performers would participate. From pop, folk and ballads to punk and metal, everything is included.