After renewed debacle of Germany in the Euro Vision Song Contest will the ESC representatives of ARD, Thomas Schreiber, change the mode of the German preliminary decision. “Our main goal will be the future search for ESC song. For this we are looking for performers, then we take care of the production,” he told the editorial network Germany.
the ARD entertainment coordinator sees as reasons for the poor showing among others the orientation of the German preliminary decision: “this has to do with the fact that we – unlike, say, 2010 to 2012 – have chosen not the songs from an international pool of several hundred songs, searched but artists with songs. ” For a success in ESC but also belong luck. “A win can not be designed on the drawing board.”
With this statement announces recorder – without calling it so – a return to the principle of success Stefan Raab. Because the issues raised by the ARD-Man 2010 to 2012 were those in which Raab organized the qualifying round and with Lena Meyer-Landrut later ESC winner of Oslo (2010) discovered. 2011 took Lena in their second participation rank 10, 2012 came Roman Lob to eighth place
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As Raab thereafter withdrew from the ESC, Germany occupied in 2013 number 21 2014 number 18 and was then twice last.
News around the Euro vision song Contest 2016
+++ Germany next year at ESC this (May 20, 2016) +++
after the ESC is in front of the ESC: shortly after this year’s final of the Euro vision song Contest, the first countries announced their participation for the coming year. Despite the poor performance – singer Jamie-Lee Kriewitz finished in Stockholm last place – Germany will in 2017 participate in the competition
In addition to hosts Ukraine, the winner presented with singer Jamala this year, and Germany. said so far, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Hungary their participation in the Euro vision song Contest 2017.
+++ Another ESC debacle for Germany (15. May 2016) +++
the Ukraine is the winner of the 61st Euro Vision Song Contest . The song “1944″ by Jamala replaced by a head-to-head race with the most points against Australia and Russia. Germany ended the final in Stockholm in last place
+++ ESC scandal. Armenia is forbidden flag of Nagorno-Karabakh (12 May 2016) +++
A deliberate provocation attended the first semifinal of the ESC for a scandal: the Armenian singer Iveta Mukuchyan waved in the waiting room, the flag of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, infringing clearly against the rules.
As part of the Euro Vision Song Contest any political expression is prohibited. Even flags of disputed territories such as Nagorno-Karabakh, Crimea, Northern Cyprus or Palestine should therefore not be shown .
Mukuchyan told the press conference after the show that she showed the banner aware have: “My heart wants nothing but peace in the world and peace for Armenia,” she said. Your contribution “Love Wave” emphasize that because this “wave of love” it wants to send out into the world with her performance
+++ After Video of voting. Suspended Russian juror (10 May 2016) +++
The Russian RTR has suspended ESC juror Anastasia Stotskaja. The 33-year-old had made a video of the secret scoring the Russian jury at the first semi-final of the Euro Vision Song Contest into the net and thus taken care of trouble.
The action was carried out in coordination with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) the organizer of the ESC. The other four members of the Russian jury remain in office, their voting results valid. The points awarded forfeited by Stotskaja. For the finale of the music competition on Saturday (14 May), is RTR appoint a replacement member.
In the seven-minute clip among others, the performances of the candidates from the Netherlands and Armenia as well as the Jury reactions had been to see it, published
+++ video of voting. Russian ESC jury threatens trouble (May 10, 2016) +++
This video is likely to consequences have: the Russian ESC jury has filmed in scoring for the participants of the first semi-final show itself and published the video on Periscope. The saw of the organizers of the music competition, the EBU, do not like.
While the first semi-final of the “Euro Vision Song Contest” in Stockholm will only take place on Tuesday evening. This year, however, it is so that the national juries award their points in both the semi-finals and the finals already on the basis of non-public rehearsals. Viewers then vote as usual from under the live TV broadcasts over the phone.
When the Russian jury therefore saw the dress rehearsal on Monday night, it kept juror Anastasia Stotskaja probably a good idea, a video of it to publish. The nearly seven-minute Periscope clip that is no longer on their side now available, showed television footage from the arena and the reactions of the jury on individual performances.
In addition Stotskaja filmed from the ballots. Although at this point were no votes, but plus and minus signs in individual countries, which allow conclusions about how the artist arrived at the jury. Actually to the jury reviews the semi-finalists remain secret until the finale on Saturday night to avoid any negative effects.
+++ Justin Timberlake sings the ESC (9 May 2016) +++
a superstar in the Euro vision song Contest: US singer Justin Timberlake will perform on Saturday the final of the music competition in Stockholm as a guest star
He’ll be in a pause his new single “Can not stop the feeling”. imagine the organizers informed on Monday. His appearance hang together with the fact that the Swedish composer Max Martin and Shellback had co-written and -produziert his songs.
In the past year more than 200 million people watched the final of the ESC. By 2016, the event will be broadcast in the 42 participating countries, moreover, also in China, Kazakhstan, Portugal, New Zealand -. And for the first time the US
+++ Jamie-Lee Kriewitz wants at least into midfield (9 May. 2016) +++
All too wide, the chest is not just marches with Jamie-Lee Kriewitz to Stockholm. From victory does not speak the German hope the Euro Vision Song Contest 2016th A place in the midfield, they will but reach a minimum.
“I can evaluate zero, where I’ll end up. I hope in midfield or further forward,” said the 18-year-old of the Hessian broadcasting wave HR3.
Kriewitz occurs in the final of the Euro vision song Contest on 14 May with the song “Ghost” to. As one of the largest contributors to the contest Germany qualify automatically for the finals. Candidates of most other countries have to enforce previously in semi-finals.
+++ ESC odds make little courage Germany (May 7, 2016) +++
Is Germany again disaster the Euro vision song Contest? The odds can be in any case not bode well. From a title favorites, the German candidate Jamie-Lee Kriewitz is miles away; the bookies it is far behind in the lower field of participants.
When it comes to the last unerring betting offices, Russia and France may currently calculate the best chance of victory at the 61 ESC. The Ukraine, hosts and last year’s winner Sweden and now the second year An incoming consecutive Australia stand on the betting shop overview page www.oddschecker.com front.
Jamie-Lee on the other hand is close to the two semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday knocked off in the lower half of the currently 42 starters countries will compete from those in the finale 26th
so is Germany an extension of the body designated by ARD entertainment coordinator Thomas Schreiber as “annus horribilis” year 2015? First time preselection winner Andreas Kümmert had thrown, then was kümmerts spare Ann Sophie with embarrassing zero points in the ESC final in Vienna last.
In the fall Schreiber eventually failed with his idea, Xavier Naidoo without decider to Germany to elect starter. After accusations of homophobia and the right-wing populism ARD Naidoo invited again.
It seems so daring when Schreiber now about in the magazine “Prinz” for Jamie-Lee with her song “Ghost” a top ten -Placement outputs as the target. The singer wants to make himself no pressure but apparently. “I am totally excited to see how the mood will be in the hall and in which position I land,” she said just the “Deutsche Welle”. A commitment to a certain place avoided the newcomer here.
+++ ESC-finals for the first time live on US television (May 2, 2016) +++
The ESC excited now the whole world: For the first time will broadcast the final of the Euro vision song contest live in the USA. The channel logo TV has acquired the broadcasting rights of the most watched European music show for the United States of America.
For the 61st time takes place the music show, but only now the final is also shown in the United States. “We are thrilled that the biggest entertainment show in the world will be broadcast live in one of the largest television markets for the first time,” said ESC Supervisor Jon Ola Sand.
In fact, reach shipments of the cable network Logo according EBU nearly 50 million viewers. However, the transmitter is directed primarily to a gay audience, advertises with the slogan “Different by Design” for themselves. The transmitter mainly shows programs for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals, also shows like “Will & amp; Grace”. And “Queer as Folk”
This year’s ESC Finale is in Stockholm on May 14 on the stage. The United States emits the show live from 15 pm (New York) from.
+++ The German ESC jury is common (29 April 2016) +++
When ESC states: Fifty-Fifty. Fifty percent of the points for the artists who compete at the Euro Vision Song Contest, coming by televoting from the fans, the other fifty percent will award the German jury. Now the NDR has announced form the jury which artist this year.
Sarah Connor, Anna Loos, Namika ( “favorite person”) and the two BossHoss Cowboys Alec Völkel and Sascha Vollmer determine which singers and bands in the finals get as many points on 14 May.
In the second semi-final show, which takes place on May 12, Germany is entitled to vote and spectators and jury may cast their votes and a say so, move which ten artists to the final.
This year, the voting system at the ESC-finals, however, was changed: The scores of countries juries and the caller are now recorded separately. The judges shall vote on this before the big show: Unlike the TV audience they assess the performances of the finalists in the rehearsal the night before. This non-public “jury-finals” Connor, Loos, and Namika BossHoss see in Hamburg in the building of the NDR. Whom they have distributed what points, announced presenter Barbara Schöneberger then live by the ESC party on the Reeperbahn.
The results of the televoting of fans from all countries are evaluated against it as usual in the final after the performances of artists. The spectator points all countries added together and the sum of the ESC presenters after the publication of the jury points will be announced. Only after the winner is finalized
This also means that the audience does not know the show from which country come what viewers Points -. This you can read after the show on the Internet.
+++ Before her performance at ESC 2016: part-time job for Jamie-Lee Kriewitz (April 26, 2016) +++
Before Jamie-Lee Kriewitz Germany on May 14 with her hit “Ghost” represents the Euro vision song Contest, she still has to do a different job this weekend. Because of their Keidungsstils Jamie-Lee is considered among manga fans namely long as an icon and as such is the star guest at the anime convention DoKomi in Dusseldorf.
All fans of the singer should this deadline noted in any case. As the creators of the exhibition herald, Jamie-Lee is on Saturday, April 30, to be in Dusseldorf on site, a Meet & amp; Greet organize and their song “Ghost” during the opening ceremony perform.
+++ Romania is excluded from the ESC (22 April 2016) +++
From Romania before the competition: The country is excluded from this year’s Euro vision song contest. It’s about money
16 million Swiss francs -. To this level, the debt of the Romanian partner channel amount at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which hosts the ESC. The EBU announced that the transmitter Televiziunea Română (TVR) all membership rights have been revoked. This also means that any participation in the ESC
The transmitter have outstanding debts that date back to the year 2007, not paid even after several calls.. An ultimatum was not complied with. The EBU Director General regretted that they were forced to take this step: “But the amount of outstanding debt is threatening the financial stability of the EBU.”
A Romanian government spokesman commented that it was “no solution” found been. Bucharest had only a few days out from the seriousness of the situation.
The EBU declared against the organizers have already written this year four times to the Romanian government, but received no response. In addition, several attempts had been made to restructure the debt, because the Romanian broadcasting has significant financial problems. Romania was therefore several deadlines for the payment of a part of the blame and let them pass.
Romania has not yet won the contest twice landed the country in third place. This year, Anton should take, entitled “Moment of Silence”.
The EBU represents 73 TV channels from 56 countries. Again and again Eastern European countries had financial problems in recent years, and translated from the ESC. A formal exclusion from the competition, it has never been before.
The debt could for the Romanian stations still have far-reaching consequences. If the EBU consistently, the European Football Championship and the Olympic Games should not be transferred.
+++ Jamie-Lee Kriewitz puts her last name for the ESC from (15 April 2016) +++
Nicole and Lena – the two previous German ESC winners were only under her name on. Now Jamie-Lee Kriewitz decided in 2016 to omit her last name in the Euro Vision Song Contest in Stockholm, as she explained in an interview with t-online.de.
basic but had not, thereby increasing the chances of winning. “Kriewitz likely for some hard to pronounce presenters from other countries,” says the “Ghost” singer.
Anything else would be too presumptuous. Because that program will be the ESC is not automatically a guarantee for a good result only by their first names, we experienced even 2015. As was Ann-Sophie last.
+++ vocal Tremendous blonde sings for Norway (12 April 2016) +++
the strong-voiced singer Agnete represents Norway in the Euro vision song Contest 2016. the 21-year-old won the qualifying round in their home with the song “Icebreaker”.
the song sounds with its tempo and rhythm changes and the catchy tune like a medley successful ESC title. “Euphoria” by Loreen says hello. Let’s see if it is enough for the finals and for what place there. Norway enters first on May 12, in the second semifinal on.
The Scandinavians can look back on a successful ESC history. The past three years, the country was still in the top ten. Three times won one competition – last 2009.
+++ are the first live acts Reeperbahn Party firmly (April 8, 2016) +++
The final of the ESC on May 14, takes nearly five hours and is accompanied by many events. Now stand firmly the first national and international stars, the Barbara Schöneberger is welcome in the program at 20:15 and 00:20 live on the Reeperbahn
In “Euro Vision Song Contest 2016 – Countdown for Stockholm” and “Euro Vision song Contest 2016 – Grand Prix Party “are Sarah Connor, Mark Forster, Max Giesinger, Madeline Juno, Namika, the band” Royal Republic “from Sweden and the BossHoss on the open-air stage in Hamburg. More Acts is the NDR announce at a later date
In addition to the artists performing on the Reeperbahn, will be featured in both shows and Jamie-Lee. The German ESC participant reports live from Stockholm of the mood immediately before and after the final. The singer from near Hannover goes for Germany with the song “Ghost” at the start.
The transfer of the ESC-finals in first start at 21.00. Commentator is again this year Peter Urban, Pop and expert since 1974. Moderator at NDR 2. In the finals are acts from 26 countries. On Spielbudenplatz on the Reeperbahn, the show can be seen on a big screen. The access there is free.
+++ Phoenix transmits both ESC semi-final (4 April 2016) +++
The info-channel Phoenix shows on 10 and 12. May respectively at 21 o’clock, the two semi-finals of the Euro vision song Contest. German commentator as the finale on May 14 in the ARD Peter Urban.
The German viewers may vote with the second semi-final on May 12. Overall, this year go to Stockholm 43 countries at the start. Countries such as Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Bulgaria return after an absence again ESC to return.
In the first semifinal present 18 countries their songs. In the second set of 19 countries presented their songs. The ten best will qualify for the finals in the start also in France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain and Germany alongside hosts Sweden.
+++ Belarusian wants naked and with wolves on stage (March 26 2016) +++
Well, that would be a show time. The Belarusian ESC participants Ivan would occur in Stockholm with two real wolves. He wants to be naked. At least that explained Ivans producer Victor Drobisch. Ivans song is called “Help You Fly”. He’s off in the second semi-final on May 12.
According Drobisch every person identifying with any animal. “We want that all this fine line between man and nature feel.”
The ESC responsible not feel the limit anyway. According to the German side “eurovision.de” the official Ivan have already rejected that. “Animals are not allowed on the ESC stage”, it says, and “the question of costume Belarusian artist is not yet known. But he is not naked occur.”
Too bad. . The colorful ESC circus would have this number certainly placed the crown
+++ A rock opera for Romania (23 March 2016) +++
Romania makes this year a rock opera at ESC resound. The performances will be the title of “Moments Of Silence” by former X Factor candidates Ovidiu Anton.
The singer had tried to get hold of it previously four times in vain a ticket for the ESC. Romania enters the second semi-final on 12 May in Stockholm.
+++ mix of Jack Sparrow and d’Artagnan enters for Poland to (21 March 2016) +++
Poland sends with Michał Szpak an optical mixture of Captain Jack Sparrow and d’Artagnan for ESC to Sweden. His song sounds but rather by Rosamunde Pilcher Schmonzette than to cloak-and-dagger adventure. The singer takes with the ballad “Colour Of Your Life”.
Szpak was in Poland second in the talent show “X-Factor”. For the ESC, he has ran in the second semi-final on May 12.
+++ Jamie-Lee joins Echo Awards on (March 17) +++
Jamie-Lee Kriewitz are at Echo Awards in Berlin on April 7 the Honor. The German ESC participant in 2016 singing her song “Ghost”.
In addition Stars ( “Either way”) are on the stage as the Irish singer Enya and the singer-songwriter bosses and Mark Forster ( “Au Revoir “) are, as the organizer mitt rushed.
The ceremony of Echo Music Awards will be broadcast live on ARD from 20.15 and moderated by Barbara Schöneberger. The echo favorites include the British singer Adele, pop singer Helene Fischer and rapper Sido.
+++ Holland sends smarten Country Boy in the race (15 March 2016) +++
This smart singer-songwriter makes Jamie-Lie Kriewitz at this year’s ESC competition: Douwe Bob goes with his catchy country song “Slow down” in the first semifinal on May 10 for the Netherlands in the race.
Douwe Bob is the first male solo participants for Holland since 1992. He is 23 years old and won the 2012 talent show “De best singer-songriter van Nederland”. Since then he has released two albums. The ESC experienced artist Anouk he recorded the ballad “Hold Me”. A hit that was clicked almost 140,000 times alone on the Internet.
+++ 17-year-old takes on Sweden at ESC on (March 13, 2016) +++
A 17 -year-old is the host country Sweden represented the “Euro vision song Contest” in Stockholm: the ESC-decider on Saturday night voted most viewers for Frans Jeppsson Wall
was the teenage age of seven Swedish with a hymn to. football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic style.
with the catchy song “If I Were Sorry” the Sweden qualify automatically as hosts for the ESC final on 14 May. Sweden awarded the Grand Prix for the sixth time from after Måns Zelmerlöw had won the competition last year with “Heroes”.
+++ Canadian Rykka converts on Céline Dion’s footsteps (11 March 2016) + ++
Switzerland sets the Dion-factor: 28 years after Céline Dion’s ESC victory for the Confederates now reenters a Canadian. Rykka sings in Stockholm the pop ballad “The Last Of Our Kind”.
The singer who actually Christina Maria Rieder is, comes from Vancouver and has unlike Dion even Swiss roots.
the song should be “nice” when it comes to lyrics and melody – otherwise we expect from Switzerland. On the song the 29-year-old has even logged.
+++ High political award for the Song Contest (March 8, 2016) +++
A great honor for the Euro Vision Song Contest: The ESC receives a political distinction – the Charlemagne Medal , A very special grand prix star will hold at the ceremony the eulogy.
The ESC had “made outstanding contribution to the process of European unification and to the development of a European identity”, informed the city of Aachen. The Director-General of the European Broadcasting Union, Ingrid Deltenre wants, accept the award on April 28 representative in reception. The speech in honor of the ESC considers fittingly Abba star Bjorn Ulvaeus. Even Nicole, the German ESC-winner of 1982 ( “A bit of peace”), said to her coming.
“We rarely get Europe’s citizens the opportunity to feel across interconnected via the limits us” said the chairman of the association “Médaille Charlemagne”, Michael Kayser. “The Euro Vision Song Contest provides such an opportunity. By the presentation of each participant countries bring these closer to the viewer and are tangible.”
The award honors people or institutions from the media.
+++ Guildo Horn would Thomas Müller like to attend the ESC can (02 March 2016) +++
As he come up with this idea? Musician and entertainer Guildo Horn certifies Bayern Munich attacker Thomas Müller real show talent – and sees him as a potential candidate for the Euro Vision Song Contest (ESC)
“I have been a specific image in mind. “said Horn Munich” tz “. “Müller gives side parting and so a 70-year-Pornobrille. White suit with a long neck, and in his hand a big bouquet of red roses. Then he comes on a white horse to the stage ridden, and it gets really schmaltzy.” The result: “And even the horse to cry.”
Horn describes himself as crazy about football, but in all sympathy for the club not a fan of Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola. “Professional football or not, but this erfolgszerfressenen people are not my thing,” Horn said. “Sure you want his team to be successful, one can exaggerate but bottom line, it is also only football..”
+++ Jamie-Lee Kriewitz sings in “The Voice Kids” – semifinals (February 29, 2016) +++
For they all started in the music program “the Voice”. As protege of Fanta Michi Beck and Smudo Jamie-Lee Kriewitz won the ProSiebenSat.1 talent show. Now she was even chosen to represent Germany at the ESC in Stockholm.
Before we go on long trips, the overjoyed 17-year-old remembers its beginnings and the returns to private channels. In the semifinals of “The Voice Kids” Jamie-Lee seeks to work with the young singers on March 18 their ESC-song type “Ghost” to the best. And because it also celebrates her 18th birthday that day, all participants Jamie-Lee Kriewitz allowed to brace with safety on a big party.
+++ repeated school year (February 28, 2016) +++
Jamie-Lee Kriewitz (17), Germany’s hope the Euro vision song Contest 2016, will now definitely make up for the current school year. “By” The Voice of Germany “I have a lot of absenteeism at school, my testimony saw this half not so good,” the winner of ProSiebenSat.1 competition from December 2015 said on Friday night in the “NDR Talk Show”. “I have therefore decided to repeat this year because I want to make a good degree, and I can not if I’m only half-heartedly at school here.”
Shortly after winning the ESC -Vorentscheids entitled “Ghost” on Thursday, the manga girl had indicated from Springe near Hanover that a high school had to be moved. On March 18 Kriewitz comes of age.
+++ Jamie-Lee does ESC points target open (26 February 2016) +++
The German ESC participant Jamie-Lee Kriewitz leaves their points target for the Euro vision song Contest final in Stockholm. “I will simply send everything to me, and now do not say I have to reach and the place,” she told the German Press Agency in Cologne. It was important not to bend, “Because you never know who at the moment is sitting right in front of the television and who you vote.” That her quite special and inspired by the Asian manga culture style can also arrive at the ESC, it considers, however, for quite possible: “The fact that there are also many fans and many are in this scene, it could be many recognize and vote for me . ” 2015 Germany had scored the ESC in Vienna with singer Ann Sophie is no single point of jury and TV audience
+++ ESC preselection. Ralph Siegel scraped the final pass (26 February 2016) + ++
He had wanted so much and missed it at the end narrowly: The eternal ESC composer Ralph Siegel (70) is barely sidestepped the German preselection for the Euro vision song Contest 2016 in the final. As the NDR announced one day after the show, Seal has been assigned his singer Laura Pinski fourth place in the voting of the audience. That was not enough for the final of the top three, the student Jamie-Lee Kriewitz emerged from the in a second round of voting as the winner. She had, however, already clearly located at the first voting round with nearly 222,000 votes ahead. By comparison, their closest rival, Alex Diehl and Rocker Avantasia, it reached about 125 000 votes. What’s ranking also showed: indie pop was not really hot this year. Among the last three places the band keoma and the duo Joco found again. Worst cut the pop band Woods of Birnam from.
+++ Jamie-Lee Kriewitz and the ESC preselection up front (26 February 2016) +++
question of who moves to Germany for Euro vision song Contest (ESC) has, the First placed the odds victory on Thursday night. The 17-year-old schoolgirl Jamie-Lee Kriewitz from Springe near Hanover won with her song “Ghost”. She sat down at the end against the toughest competitors, Alex Diehl (28) and Avantasia, by – 4.47 million viewers (13.8 percent) had turned the show “Our song for Stockholm”. On RTL comedy series “The teacher” 3.29 million viewers reached from 20.15 (9.9 percent). The live show “I can do that” with moderator Steven Gätjen ZDF managed simultaneously contrast, only 2.12 million (6.4 per cent).
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