Malmo. This year the German participant comes from Ostwestfalen-Lippe for only the second time in the 68-year history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Singer Isaak Guderian from Espelkamp in the Minden-Lübbecke district will compete in the final on May 11th with his self-written song “Always on the Run”. We accompany the Week of East Westphalia live from Malmö.
The essentials in brief:
- The ESC will take place from May 6th to 11th in Malmö, Sweden. Today’s finale started at 9 p.m.
- After the two preliminary finals it is clear which countries Espelkamp’s Isaak Guderian will have to compete against for Germany. He will be the third artist to perform.
- The Dutch candidate Joost Klein was excluded from the final on Saturday – due to an as yet unspecified “incident”. Accordingly, Isaac competes against 24 countries.
- Thousands of people have been demonstrating in Malmö for days against the appearance of the Israeli Eden Golan and are calling for her expulsion because of Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip.