Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991
Eurovision Song Contest 1991
Participating broadcaster	ARD [a] – Sender Freies Berlin (SFB)
Country	Germany
Selection process	Ein Lied für Rom
Selection date	21 March 1991
Competing entry
Song	"Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben"
Artist	Atlantis 2000
Songwriters	Helmut Frey Alfons Weindorf
Placement
Final result	18th, 10 points
Participation chronology
◄1990 • 1991 • 1992►

Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with the song "Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben", composed by Alfons Weindorf, with lyrics by Helmut Frey, and performed by six-member group Atlantis 2000. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), selected their entry through a national final.

Before Eurovision

Ein Lied für Rom

The national final was held at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin, hosted by Hape Kerkeling. Ten songs took part and the winner was chosen by a panel of 1,000 people, selected as providing a representative cross-section of the German public, who were telephoned and asked to choose their favourite song. One of the other participants was Cindy Berger, who had represented Germany at Eurovision in 1974 as half of duo Cindy & Bert. ^[1] The final was broadcast on Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen and on former DDR radio station Radio aktuell. ^[2]

Final – 21 March 1991

Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Percentage	Place
1	Tanja Jonak	"Hand in Hand in die Sonne"	Jean Frankfurter, Irma Holder	9.5%	6
2	Susan Schubert	"Du bist mehr"	Willy Klüter, Anna Rubach	10.8%	5
3	Cindy Berger	"Nie allein"	Rainer Pietsch, Werne Schüler	6.4%	7
4	Barbara Cassy	"Hautnah ist nicht nah genug"	Luis Rodríguez, Peter Zentner	14.1%	4
5	Connie & Komplizen	"Jedesmal"	Dirk Schiller	2.8%	10
6	Vox & Vox	"Tief unter der Haut"	Andreas Lebbing	14.9%	3
7	Stefan de Wolff	"Herz an Herz"	Stefan de Wolff, Andreas Bärtles	3.7%	9
8	Ziad & Sandrina	"Die Wächter der Erde"	Walter J.W. Schmid, Alf Schwegeler	15.2%	2
9	Atlantis 2000	"Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben"	Alfons Weindorf, Helmut Frey	18.5%	1
10	Strandjungs	"Junge Herzen"	Marco Junger, Bernd Morawitz, Bernd Morawitz	4.1%	8

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Atlantis 2000 performed 17th in the running order, following Finland and preceding Belgium. At the close of voting "Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben" had received only 10 points, placing Germany 18th of the 22 entries, the country's lowest Eurovision finish to that date. ^[3] The German jury awarded its 12 points to contest winners Sweden. ^[4]

The show was watched by 6.28 million viewers in Germany. ^[5]

Voting

Points awarded to Germany [6] Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points   Denmark 5 points 4 points 3 points   Cyprus 2 points 1 point   Spain

Points awarded by Germany [6] Score Country 12 points   Sweden 10 points   Malta 8 points   France 7 points   Spain 6 points    Switzerland 5 points   Iceland 4 points   Norway 3 points   Luxembourg 2 points   Ireland 1 point   Cyprus

Notes

1. Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

References

1. ESC National Finals database 1991 Archived 7 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Fernsehen und funk" [Television and radio]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). Berlin, Germany. 21 March 1991. p. 16. Retrieved 10 March 2025– via Berlin State Library.
3. "Final of Rome 1991". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
4. "ESC History - Germany 1991". Archived from the original on 25 May 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
5. Quotenmeter; AGF; GfK. "TV-Reichweite des Eurovision Song Contests in den Jahren 1976 bis 2023 nach der Anzahl der Zuschauer" . Statista. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
6. "Results of the Final of Rome 1991". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.