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Germany: Watch the castings online
- You can watch the castings here.
However, most of the performers shown are not among those to compete in the live shows.
The first two live shows will be held on 2nd and 9th February with ten acts competing each. Five performers out of each heat will move forward to the next stage of the selection - the elimination rounds. After the semi final, two acts will remain to compete in the grand final on 12th March. Before the winner will be chosen, the German song for Oslo will be determined.
In 2009, Germany was represented by Alex Swings, Oscar Sings! with the song Miss kiss kiss bang. The duo finished 20th in the final with 35 points.
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@ Stockholm calling
I haven't read anywhere that the songwriters have to be German, so I guess it could be true.
I don't know Matilda Thompson. What kind of music is she making?
Katrin
I read on a Swedish ESC site that a couple of songs have been submitted to "Unser Star für Oslo" by Sweden Songs, one of which with singer/songwriter Matilda Thompson. Could this be true?
hilarious so funnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Katrin
I'm glad Stefaan is having some involvement then, cos regardless of what people may say about him, he really knows what hes doing. I agree about private channel involvement being a good idea aswell, as even though we can't really complain about how the BBC handle Eurovision, I think our Channel 4 would defo have a more interesting selection, and I assume it's the same in alot of other countries.
@ Little Imp
I forgot that year. Sadly enough that cooperation didn't last. And even then we only had one show which was shown on ARD.
It is no comparison to the involvement of the much bigger private channel Pro7 and the fact that we will have a much bigger preselection.
@ Kathrin Schmidt:
There was involvement of music channel VIVA in 2004.
@ Thorazin Corazon
A few songwriters will write a few songs. Stefan Raab said in an interview that he doesn't know yet if he will also write one. But I am optimistic that there will be at least one good song which the public can choose. In the final televoters will first decide the song and then who of the two finalist should sing it at the ESC.
I think the involvement of Stefan Raab and a private channel is a really good change. It is the first time in German ESC history that a private channel is involved with the ESC. This is very good because the public channels main audience is usually older than 50 years old. People under 30 rarely watch them at all. Because of that the ESC national selection shows were usual quite old fashioned in the past. The exception were some shows around the millennium change when the public channels cooperated with a modern radio channel. But those public channels officials thought that those ESC shows then were too "wild" and "unsavory" so they changed them to the boring preselection shows of the last few years. And last year we didn't even have a preselection show at all.
Everything is better than the last few years. It can't get worse!
ALL of the performers shown are not in the live shows. At the beginning of each video Stefan Raab says that those singers weren't good enough.
I read on another side that there will be 10 male singers and 10 female singers in the live shows. I am curious if the first two shows will be divided among the genders or not. I think a division would be good because men have usually a slight advantage in televoting and I like to have some gender balance in later live shows. I just hate it when the less talented "cute" guy reach the next round, and the very talented female singer has to go.
In "Teil 2" there was a guy with dreadlocks singing. He had a good voice, too bad he screamed so much, lol.
Melodifestivalen would fail in any of these big countries eg France, Germany, Spain, UK where big artists don't want to do Eurovision. The reason why it works so well in Sweden is because so many Swedish artists (Well known artists) are willing to do it, but over here it'd be 4 semis with 32 unknown people and sub-standard songs, and the public just wouldn't watch. It'd be like Eurovision: Your Decision but with 5 times as many songs 
i hope Germany can find a great song and a good singer this year for Esc , i hope this is a right format
Oh noooooo. Most of the people shown are not among the 20 selected? 
That probably means the two promising ones (guy in green shirt and girl in red top) might not be among them. 
@ fred tonton
ther is no point germany hosting a melodifestivalen tho if it aint gonna have the popularity it would in sweden. t'would be a waste of money and resources
Because Sweden's MF is not a successful format anymore for ESC results, and YCNY was successful, why waste money on pefecting an unsuccessful show, when you have a successful one there !? 
Germany is A GREAT country, they have money and the potential enough to organise something as great as the melodifestivalen or at leas the MGP ! WHY DONT THEY ?
I think this process is perfectly fine tbh 
If it worked for the UK then why won't it work for Germany? Stefan Raab is a decent songwriter (he is writing the song, right?), and the talent is clearly there so I think it'll turn out pretty decent for Germany
I'm not liking this process.
A very wrong selection process from Germany...
@ mira: you are 100% right
Ohhh finaly new LOGO, the old one was funny! Like from East Berlin in 1986!!
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