Germany: Everything that happened in the first three episodes of “Ich will zum ESC”!

As we’ve previously informed you, these days, the first three episodes of “Ich will zum ESC” aired. The series is a competitive TV show consisting of six episodes, whose winner will get a wildcard to compete in the German national final, “Das Deutsche Finale”, in which the representative for Eurovision 2024 will be selected.

The contestants will be backed by two coaches in this process, Rea Garvey, and Eurovision 2014 winner, Conchita Wurst. In the first five episodes will perform covers, or songs of their own, while in the last episode, they will sing the song with which they will compete in “Das Deutsche Finale” if they win.

Episode One

The artists that took part in this episode are named below, along the song they chose to perform:

1. Christos – Be Yourself
2. Bibiane – Toxic
3. Apollson – Love On The Brain
4. Anne – Don’t Stop Me Now
5. Paul von POULISH KID – Out Of Time
6. Jamina – Creep
7. Esther – Slave To The Rhythm

The artists that managed to qualify are:

• Team Conchita: Anne, Christos
• Team Rea: Bibiane, Paul

Episode Two

The artists that took part in this episode are named below, along the song they chose to perform:

1. Esther – What A Wonderful World
2. Sophie – Schön genug
3. Luca – When I Was Your Man
4. Celina – Physical
5. Sven – Beggin‘
6. Marie – Irgendwas bleibt
7. Béranger – Wild Drift
8. Lyn – Calm After The Storm

The artists that managed to qualify are:

• Team Conchita: Luca, Sophie, Sven
• Team Rea: Esther, Béranger

Episode Three

The artists that took part in this episode are named below, along the song they chose to perform:

1. Lyn – Calm After the Storm
2. Flo – What Was I Made For

The artist that managed to qualify is Flo.

In this way, the teams of the two coaches are as follows:

• Team Conchita: Anne, Christos, Luca, Sophie, Sven
• Team Rea: Béranger, Bibiane, Esther, Paul und Florian

The ten artists were then divided in four groups:

• Christos & Sven: Take Me To Church
• Anne, Luca & Sophie: Time After Time
• Flo & Bibiane: Dancing On My Own (Version von Calum Scott)
• Esther, Béranger & Paul: You Get What You Give

As we know, the vocal coaches are Yvonne Ambrée and Katrin Mickiewicz . The two teams are divided into one group of two and two groups of three. They are assigned a song to try out in just one hour. Not everyone can do it, especially the lyrics, so when the songs are presented, some lyrics are in their hands or the lyrics are written on a large cardboard.

After the performances of all ten artists in the next episode, we will find out which artists will have to leave from “Ich will zum ESC”.

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the German participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, in Malmö!