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Germany HoD: “We care about Eurovision”

German Head of Delegation for Eurovision, Ms. Alexandra Wolfslast has defended her role and Germany’s most recent participation in the music festival.

Germany’s most recent results in the Eurovision Song Contest have been far from perfect.  Ms. Wolfslat has been the Head of the Delegation since 2020.  During her term, Germany’s best result was 25th place in 2021 (second last).  Furthermore, the Big 5 country ended in last place in the last two editions of the festival.

However, she says that this bad streak is not attributable to a lack of commitment by the public broadcaster.  During an interview with The Euro Trip, Ms. Wolflstat talked about Eurovision and Germany’s current plans for the 2024 edition.

“We are trying to do as much as we can. I do hope that people see that we do care and that we’re pulling all the strings to get good contestants in the preselection and to Malmö.”

Germany will choose their representative via their national final Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale 2024, on Friday, February 16, 2024.  The public chose one of the contestants for the national final on the show, Ich will zum ESC!

Floryan won this pre-show and will join eight contestants in the German national final.  According to the HoD, using this format was part of the 2024 strategy to raise interest from the tv audience for Eurovision

“The normal German only knows about Eurovision in May, so that was one of the reasons to have this format [starting] earlier.”

Lord of The Lost represented Germany in 2023 with the song Blood and Glitter.  They ended in last place  in the Grand Final

Source: The Euro Trip

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Germany 2024: The participants for Das Deutsche Finale 2024 to be revealed soon!

In about a two weeks’ time we will know the list of contestants for  Das Deutsche Finale 2024.  According to website Schlagerpuls the planned date for this announcement will be on January 19, 2024.  According to news website, the information comes directly from German broadcaster NDR.  However, the date is still subject to change.

693 artists submitted their songs to enter German national final for Eurovision Das Deutsche Finale 2024. After an internal selection process, 32 entries were submitted for evaluation by a 20-person international jury.

Shortly before Christmas NDR made the final shortlist of the participants.  Little is known until this point about the names of the acts that are still in the race.  Nevertheless, some of the wishful candidates have confirmed that their songs were rejected.  For instance, pop singer Claudia stated that the screening “was intense” and that she did not make it.

Marie Rime, Alexandra Hofmann (with Jørgen Olsen), Marina Marx and the boy band Zeitflug are some of the names that have been floated as contestants.  Rime herself helped fueled these rumours on an Instagram posted where she said “it will not take long” until her upcoming single, Naiv will be revealed.

 

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German national final for Eurovision Das Deutsche Finale 2024 will be broadcasted in Berlin on February 16, 2024.  The acts selected by the professional jury will join a final act chosen by the public via the music show Ich Will Zum ESC! on February 8, 2024.

Source: Schlagerpuls

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Austrian, German, Swiss broadcasters join forces for Eurovision 2024 programming!

Public broadcasters ORF (Austria), ADR (Germany) and SRF (Switzerland) are working together to increase their cooperation in different programming areas including the Eurovision Song Contest.

The decision was taken in a joint meeting in Munich.  The three partner channels agreed on bi and trilateral plans for future coordination broadcasting in the areas of culture, documentaries, entertainment.  The 140 billion euros agreements allow the channels to share their expertise and resources in future productions.  This would include future cooperation for the Eurovision Song Contest.

For instance, last May, Austrian and Swiss broadcasters broadcasted together ARD’s programmes “ESC – der Countdown” and “ESC – die Aftershow” hosted by Barbara Schöneberger.  In a similar fashion, the three channels will work together in the broadcasting of next Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö.

Source: SRF

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