News are still unclear and unconfirmed but Italian Eurovision site, Eurofestivalnews has announced the supposed new method the German broadcaster will follow to pick their entry for the contest. Once again, Germany would not get somebody internally chosen for the Eurovision. As the land has not been enjoying good scores for the last 3 years on the Song Contest final scoreboard and after Ann Sophie‘s drama where she got ‘nul points’ with Black Smoke, an entry which was not the one selected by the German audience to represent themselves in Vienna – everyone here remembers Andreas Kümmert declining -, NDR ARD has decided to change things up in order to pick next year’s German Eurovision entrant by adopting a new preselection format similar to the Swedish Melodifestivalen, something which has been in mind for several years.
Unser Song Für Schweden will consist on a single and Clubkonzert show anymore but different stages:
- Singers will be able to apply and send in songs (period extended from the 1st of September 2015 till October 11th)
- From all the contributions received, a still undecided number of participants will enter one of the 6 shows which will be aired through November and December on Einsplus by the German broadcaster.
- 18 artists will qualify to the next stage of the preselection. These will be picked up by a jury made up of the following names: Konstantin Gropper, leader of the band Get Well Soon, Anette Humpe, from the duo Ich + Ich and producers Markus Ganter and Swen Meyer.
- Once the jury has selected the 18 entries, 6 by 6 will presented on each of the 3 shows set on February 12, 19, 26.
- 4 entries will qualify from each of the semis and 12 songs will make up the final line-up of Unser Song Für Schweden on the 4th of March with Barbara Schöneberger as host of the show -again-.
- Jesko Friedrich e Dennis Kaupp will be the hosts of the shows prior to the grand final.
Information about the tickets, venue and location of the shows will be released in due time. Stay tuned to ESC+Plus for further information about the German national final for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, taking place on May 10,12,14 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm.
Just first place going in ESC? 😛
Well sad that she did not get any pointe, but she did not win the selection in Germany, she was the runner up. Start to take the contest seriously instead.
http://t.co/AF1zkKUVbo Neues Format für den Vorentscheid?
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RT @esc_plus: #Germany: New format adopted for 2016 national final! http://t.co/cn09dpO4RR #eurovision #esc2016 #unsersongfürschweden
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@HoDGermany @eurovisionde http://t.co/AdO595XUUI
And the Source is …!?
Das deutsche Melodifestivalen wie hier bestätigt http://t.co/AdO595XUUI scheint keine seriöse Quelle zu sein. Danke @HoDGermany
Germany picks 2016 entry with new selection process. You’ll be able to rate the final show on March 4 with our App! http://t.co/jzkiP6vT9l
Germany: New format adopted for 2016 national final! http://t.co/YlraUi7ilT
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Good for the German public , the best results were from Roman Lob (2012) and Lena (2010) who won Eurovision Via Unser song Fur Baku and Unser Song Fur Oslo. Though Elaza was good . Ann Sophie was not meant to go , I believe instead of sending Ann Sophie they either should’ve withdrawn or chose somebody internally via ARD because Germany has plenty of good singers
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