Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Eurovision Song Contest 2024
Participating broadcaster	ARD [a] – Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
Country	Germany
National selection
Selection process	Eurovision Song Contest –Das deutsche Finale2024
Selection date(s)	16 February 2024
Selected artist(s)	Isaak
Selected song	"Always on the Run"
Selected songwriter(s)	Greg Taro Isaak Guderian Kevin Lehr Leo Salminen
Finals performance
Final result	12th, 117 points
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Always on the Run", written by Greg Taro, Isaak Guderian, Kevin Lehr, and Leo Salminen, and performed by Isaak himself. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), organised the national final Eurovision Song Contest –Das deutsche Finale2024 in order to select their entry for the contest.

As a member of the "Big Five", Germany automatically qualified to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Performing in position 3, Germany placed twelfth out of the 25 performing countries with 112 points, achieving its best result since 2018.

Background

Main article: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2024 contest, ARD has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Germany sixty-six times since its debut in 1956, ^[1] making Germany, to this point, the country with the most entries in the contest: they have taken part in every edition except in 1996 when they were eliminated in a pre-contest qualification round. They have won the contest on two occasions: in 1982 with the song " Ein bißchen Frieden " performed by Nicole and in 2010 with the song "Satellite" performed by Lena. In 2023, "Blood & Glitter" performed by Lord of the Lost placed 26th (last) in the final with 18 points. ^[1]

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, ARD organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. Since 1996, ARD has delegated the participation in the contest to its member Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). The German consortium has used both internal selections and a variety of national final formats to select their entries in the past, chiefly sticking to the format Unser Lied für… ("Our Song for…", followed by the name of the host city) in recent years. ARD confirmed its intention to compete in the 2024 contest immediately after the 2023 final. ^[2]

Before Eurovision

Isaak, winner of Eurovision Song Contest –Das deutsche Finale2024, at the PrePartyES event in Madrid

Eurovision Song Contest –Das deutsche Finale2024

On 7 September 2023, NDR announced its intention to organise a national final, titled Eurovision Song Contest –Das deutsche Finale2024 ("Eurovision Song Contest – The German Final 2024"). The show, which was held in Berlin on 16 February 2024 and was hosted by Barbara Schöneberger, was broadcast live on Das Erste , on the broadcaster's streaming platform ARD Mediathek, and on its official Eurovision website Eurovision.de. ^{[3] [4] [5]} The winner was selected by a combination of jury votes and televoting.

The show was watched by 2.190 million viewers in Germany for a 14.7% share, marking an increase of 210,000 viewers and 3.4% share compared to Unser Lied für Liverpool in 2023 as well as the highest viewership values for a German national final since 2010. ^[6]

Competing entries

A submission period for interested artists was open from 7 September to 15 October 2023. Singers or groups could apply with or without a song, and were required to upload a video performance of their song or (for those without an original composition) a cover of their choice. ^{[3] [4]} The competition was open to any artists and songs, without restrictions of language or nationality. ^[4] At the end of the submission period, 693 artists had applied –495 soloists, 71 duos and 127 bands –with a total of 572 songs. ^{[7] [8]} By 25 November 2023, these were narrowed down to 32, who were assessed by a 20-member international jury –consisting of previous jurors for their countries at Eurovision, whose names will be revealed later –to select a maximum of ten finalists by the end on the year. ^{[9] [10]} These, ultimately revealed to be eight, were announced and released on 19 January 2024 ^{[11] [12]} and were introduced via the show ESC vor acht ("ESC before eight"), consisting of eight daily broadcasts hosted by Alina Stiegler  [ de ] between 5 and 15 February 2024. ^[13] Alongside this process, NDR launched a separate competition to determine an additional finalist, titled Ich will zum ESC! ("I want to go to the ESC!"), with fifteen contestants selected from the received applications. ^{[14] [15]}

Selected artists include Max Mutzke, who represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004.

Key:   Selected through Ich will zum ESC!

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Bodine Monet	"Tears like Rain"	Ashley Hicklin Lukas Hällgren Pele Loriano Roxane Ischi
Floryan	"Scars"	Florian Rößler Leif Bent Rea Garvey
Galant	"Katze"	Mona Meiller Paul-Aaron Wolf
Isaak	"Always on the Run"	Greg Taro Isaak Guderian Kevin Lehr Leo Salminen
Leona	"Undream You"	Elsa Søllesvik Leona Preuss Maria Christensen Simon Davis
Marie Reim	"Naiv"	Tim Peters  [ de ]
Max Mutzke	"Forever Strong"	Justin Balk  [ de ] Max Mutzke Sebastian Schubert Simon Oslender  [ de ]
NinetyNine	"Love on a Budget"	Daniel Leon Schmidt Henrik Menzel Mirko Michalzik
Ryk	"Oh Boy"	Rick Jurthe

Ich will zum ESC!

Ich will zum ESC! was a format developed by NDR and Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) to select one finalist for Eurovision Song Contest –Das deutsche Finale2024. It consisted of five pre-recorded episodes, premiering on ARD Mediathek between 25 January and 1 February 2024 (later airing on Das Erste), and a live final, held on 8 February 2024 at the Kreuzberg Festival Hall in Berlin and hosted by Laura Karasek (airing on NDR Fernsehen and Das Erste). It saw fifteen artists being coached by Conchita Wurst (2014 Austrian representative and overall winner) and Rea Garvey, who in each episode chose which participants would move on to the next stage, with three qualifying for the final. There, they presented a newly-composed song and the winner was determined by a televoting round. ^{[14] [15] [16]}

Episode 1 –Auditions: part 1 –25 January 2024 ^[17]

Draw	Artist	Song	Coaches' vote		Result
			C.W.	R.G.
1	Christos	"Be Yourself"			Team Conchita
2	Bibiane	"Toxic"			Team Rea
3	Apollson	"Love on the Brain"			Eliminated
4	Anne	"Don't Stop Me Now"			Team Conchita
5	Paul	"Out of Time"			Team Rea
6	Jamina	"Creep"			Eliminated
7	Esther  [ de ]	"Slave to the Rhythm"	— [b]

Episode 2 –Auditions: part 2 –25 January 2024 ^{[18] [19]}

Draw	Artist	Song	Coaches' vote		Result
			C.W.	R.G.
1	Esther	"What a Wonderful World"			Team Rea
2	Sophie	"Schön genug"			Team Conchita
3	Luca	"When I Was Your Man"			Team Conchita
4	Celina	"Physical"			Eliminated
5	Sven	"Beggin' "			Team Conchita
6	Marie	" Irgendwas bleibt "			Eliminated
7	Béranger	"Wild Drift"			Team Rea
8	Lyn	"Calm After the Storm"			Eliminated
9	Florian	"What Was I Made For?"			Team Rea

Episode 3 –Vocal coaching –25 January 2024 ^{[19] [20]}

Draw	Artists	Song	Coaches' vote [c]		Result
			C.W.	R.G.
1	Christos	"Take Me to Church"	No	—	Eliminated
	Sven		Yes		Advanced
2	Anne	"Time After Time"	Yes		Advanced
	Luca		Yes		Advanced
	Sophie		Yes		Advanced
3	Florian	"Dancing on My Own"	—	Yes	Advanced
	Bibiane			Yes	Advanced
4	Esther	"You Get What You Give"		No	Eliminated
	Béranger			Yes	Advanced
	Paul			Yes	Advanced

Episode 4 –Lip-sync challenge –30 January 2024 ^{[20] [21]}

Draw	Artist	Song	Coaches' vote [d]		Result
			C.W.	R.G.
1	Florian	"Can't Stop"	—	Yes	Advanced
2	Bibiane	"Running Up That Hill"		Yes	Advanced
3	Béranger	"Maniac"		No	Eliminated
4	Paul	"Sex on Fire"		Yes	Advanced
5	Luca	"Think About Things"	Yes	—	Advanced
6	Sophie	"Karma"	No		Eliminated
7	Sven	"Roller"	Yes		Advanced
8	Anne	"Wildberry Lillet"	Yes		Advanced

Episode 5 –Songwriting challenge –1 February 2024 ^[21]

Artist	Coaches' vote		Result
	C.W.	R.G.
Anne	Yes	—	Advanced
Bibiane	—	Yes	Advanced [e]
Florian		Yes	Advanced
Luca	Yes	—	Advanced
Paul	—	No	Eliminated
Sven	No	—	Eliminated

Live final –8 February 2024 ^{[16] [24] [25]}

Draw	Artist	Song	Public vote				Place
			Phone	SMS	Online	Total
1	Anne Im	"Yellow Brick Road"	4,052	1,901	894	6,856	3
2	Floryan	"Scars"	6,132	2,165	1,095	9,392	1
3	Luca M. Wefes	"Farben neuer Tage"	5,121	2,517	1,113	8,771	2

Final

The final of Eurovision Song Contest –Das deutsche Finale2024 took place on 16 February 2024 and saw nine contestants compete. The winner was selected by a 50/50 combination of votes from an international jury and a televote, ^{[26] [27]} following a similar pattern to the one used in the Eurovision Song Contest final: the two votings each determined a ranking whereby the entries were assigned 1–6, 8, 10 and 12 points. The international jury was composed of one panel for each of eight different countries, namely Austria, Croatia, Iceland, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. ^{[28] [29]} The show was attended by Conchita Wurst, Rea Garvey, Mary Roos (1972 and 1984 German Eurovision representative), Riccardo Simonetti  [ de ], Florian Silbereisen, Alli Neumann  [ de ] and previous German representatives Lord of the Lost as guests. ^[29]

Final –16 February 2024 ^{[30] [31] [32]}

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury		Public vote					Total	Place
			Votes	Points	Phone	SMS	Online	Total	Points
1	NinetyNine	"Love on a Budget"	37	3	12,051	2,707	3,676	18,434	3	6	7
2	Leona	"Undream You"	36	2	10,708	2,969	2,883	16,560	1	3	9
3	Isaak	"Always on the Run"	74	12	64,726	21,925	23,465	110,116	12	24	1
4	Galant	"Katze"	52	6	27,175	12,989	12,203	52,367	5	11	5
5	Floryan	"Scars"	8	1	11,637	3,499	2,257	17,393	2	3	8
6	Bodine Monet	"Tears Like Rain"	55	8	26,818	10,905	10,433	48,156	4	12	4
7	Ryk	"Oh Boy"	51	5	46,488	32,957	17,965	97,410	8	13	3
8	Marie Reim	"Naiv"	40	4	40,162	13,584	11,772	65,518	6	10	6
9	Max Mutzke	"Forever Strong"	55	10	72,473	18,443	16,156	107,072	10	20	2

Detailed international jury votes ^[32]

Draw	Song									Total
1	"Love on a Budget"	3	3	5	5	10	6	2	3	37
2	"Undream You"	4	10	6	3	3	4	4	2	36
3	"Always on the Run"	10	6	8	8	12	8	12	10	74
4	"Katze"	2	5	10	10	2	12	3	8	52
5	"Scars"	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
6	"Tears Like Rain"	6	12	3	6	4	10	8	6	55
7	"Oh Boy"	12	4	2	4	6	5	6	12	51
8	"Naiv"	8	2	12	2	5	2	5	4	40
9	"Forever Strong"	5	8	4	12	8	3	10	5	55
International jury spokespersons
Switzerland – Luca Hänni  Croatia –Anja Cerar  Spain – Álvaro Soler  Lithuania – Ieva Narkutė  United Kingdom – Katrina Leskanich  Iceland – Rúnar Freyr Gíslason  Austria – Cesár Sampson  Sweden – Lina Hedlund

International jury members ^[32]

Country	Members
Austria	Christian Deix Gabriela Horn Peter Pansky Bettina Ruprechter Sasha Saedi
Croatia	Mia Dimšić Denis Dumančić Bojan Jambrošić Monika Lelas Habanek Branimir Mihaljević  [ hr ]
Iceland	Einar Bárðarson  [ is ] Helga Möller  [ is ] Kjartan Guðbergsson Kristján Gíslason Regína Óskarsdóttir
Lithuania	Lauras Lučiūnas Vytautas Lukošius Ieva Narkutė Darius Užkuraitis  [ lt ] Deivydas Zvonkus  [ lt ]
Spain	Sophia Martin Aaron Sáez Escolano Marta Sánchez Gómez Tony Sánchez-Ohlsson Sergio Sastre Sainz
Switzerland	Chiara Dubey Rico Fischer Michael von der Heide Lisa Oribasi Georg Schlunegger  [ de ]
Sweden	Filip Adamo Lina Hedlund Henrik Johnsson  [ sv ] Maria Marcus Rennie Mirro  [ sv ]
United Kingdom	Mark De-Lisser Rokhsan Heydari Adam Hunter George Ure Pete Watson

Preparation and promotion

Shortly after the national final, it was announced that "Always on the Run" would undergo a minor lyrical change in accordance with the contest's regulations prohibiting vulgar language. ^[33] As part of the promotion of his participation in the contest, Isaak attended the PrePartyES in Madrid on 30 March 2024, the London Eurovision Party on 7 April 2024 and the Eurovision in Concert event in Amsterdam on 13 April 2024. ^{[34] [35] [36]} In addition, he performed at the Eurovision Village in Malmö on 9 May 2024. ^[37]

At Eurovision

Isaak during a rehearsal before the final.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 took place at the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 7 and 9 May and the final on 11 May 2024. All nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) were required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete in the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progressed to the final. As a member of the "Big Five", Germany automatically qualifies to compete in the final on 11 May 2024, but is also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals. This was decided via a draw held during the semi-final allocation draw on 30 January 2024, when it was announced that Germany would be voting in the first semi-final. ^{[38] [39]} Despite being an automatic qualifier for the final, the German entry was also performed during the semi-final. ^[40] On 4 May 2024, a draw was held to determine which half of the final each "Big Five" country would perform in; Germany drew to perform in the first half of the show. ^[41]

ARD broadcast the semi-finals on One and the final on Das Erste , as well as all shows online via ARD Mediathek and Eurovision.de; commentary is provided by Thorsten Schorn  [ de ], replacing historical commentator Peter Urban. ^{[42] [43]} During the contest's week, ARD also aired the special program Alles Eurovision, hosted by Alina Stiegler  [ de ] and Constantin Zöller  [ de ], providing insight on the competition. ^[44] In a joint meeting held in Munich in September 2023, ARD and German-language broadcasters ORF for Austria and SRF for Switzerland renewed their plans to cooperate on the broadcast of Eurovision-themed programmes ESC –Der Countdown and ESC –Die Aftershow in 2024, as they did for the 2023 contest; ^{[45] [46]} the shows were hosted by Barbara Schöneberger. ^[47] In addition, as part of the Eurovision programming, ARD through its station WDR cooperated with DR and SVT alongside other EBU member broadcasters –namely the BBC, ČT, ERR, France Télévisions , NRK, NTR, RÚV, VRT and Yle  –to produce and air a documentary titled ABBA –Against the Odds, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Sweden's first victory at the contest with "Waterloo" by ABBA. ^{[48] [49]}

Performance

Isaak took part in technical rehearsals on 2 and 4 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 10 and 11 May. ^[50] His performance of "Always on the Run" at the contest was directed by Dan Shipton ^[51] and saw four dancers joining him in stage as well as the usage of pyrotechnics. ^[52]

Final

On 4 May 2024, a draw was held to determine which half of the final each "Big Five" country would perform in; Germany drew to perform in the first half of the show. ^[41] Germany performed in position 3, following the entry from Ukraine and before the entry from Luxembourg. ^[53] Isaak once again took part in dress rehearsals on 10 and 11 May before the final, including the jury final where the professional juries cast their final votes before the live show on 11 May. He performed a repeat of his semi-final performance during the final on 11 May. Germany placed twelfth in the final, scoring 112 points; 18 points from the public televoting and 99 points from the juries.

Voting

See also: Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to and by Germany in the first semi-final and in the final. Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting in the final vote, while the semi-final vote was based entirely on the vote of the public. ^[54] The German jury consisted of Mirko Bogojević, Nicola Keute, Mona Meiller, Florian Schrödter, and Ireen Sheer, who represented Luxembourg in the 1974 and 1985 contests and Germany in the 1978 contest. ^[55] In the final, Germany placed 12th with 117 points; the country's highest placing since 2018. Over the course of the contest, Germany awarded its 12 points to Croatia in the first semi-final, and to Sweden (jury) and Israel (televote) in the final. ^{[56] [57]}

NDR appointed Ina Müller as its spokesperson to announce the German jury's votes in the final. ^[58]

Points awarded to Germany

Points awarded to Germany (Final) ^[57]

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points
10 points		Israel
8 points	Israel	Belgium   France
7 points		Ukraine
6 points		Ireland   Norway
5 points		Czechia   Greece   Netherlands   Spain
4 points	Austria	Estonia   Italy   Latvia   Luxembourg   Poland
3 points	Switzerland	Finland
2 points	Iceland	Georgia   Iceland   Portugal   United Kingdom
1 point	Luxembourg	Armenia   Lithuania   San Marino

Points awarded by Germany

Points awarded by Germany (Semi-final 1) [56] Score Televote 12 points   Croatia 10 points   Ukraine 8 points   Lithuania 7 points   Luxembourg 6 points   Ireland 5 points   Serbia 4 points   Australia 3 points   Finland 2 points   Poland 1 point   Portugal

Points awarded by Germany (Final) [57] Score Televote Jury 12 points   Israel   Sweden 10 points   Croatia   France 8 points   Ukraine   Israel 7 points    Switzerland   Armenia 6 points   France   Croatia 5 points   Greece    Switzerland 4 points   Armenia   Ukraine 3 points   Italy   Luxembourg 2 points   Lithuania   Italy 1 point   Ireland   Lithuania

Detailed voting results

Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. ^[59] The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the German jury: ^{[55] [60]}

• Mirko Bogojević (Das Bo  [ de ])
• Nicola Keute
• Mona Meiller  [ de ]
• Florian Schrödter
• Ireen Sheer

Detailed voting results from Germany (Semi-final 1) ^[56]

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Cyprus	12
02	Serbia	6	5
03	Lithuania	3	8
04	Ireland	5	6
05	Ukraine	2	10
06	Poland	9	2
07	Croatia	1	12
08	Iceland	14
09	Slovenia	11
10	Finland	8	3
11	Moldova	15
12	Azerbaijan	13
13	Australia	7	4
14	Portugal	10	1
15	Luxembourg	4	7

Detailed voting results from Germany (Final) ^[57]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Sweden	1	7	7	2	10	1	12	18
02	Ukraine	18	2	12	4	11	7	4	3	8
03	Germany
04	Luxembourg	4	15	4	7	12	8	3	20
05	Netherlands ‡ [f]	11	23	15	22	3	15		N/A
06	Israel	3	11	20	5	2	3	8	1	12
07	Lithuania	14	8	8	3	7	10	1	9	2
08	Spain	22	20	23	24	16	24		15
09	Estonia	24	25	22	19	23	25		13
10	Ireland	25	1	25	23	8	12		10	1
11	Latvia	8	13	16	13	24	17		16
12	Greece	10	18	14	18	18	18		6	5
13	United Kingdom	2	16	9	12	21	13		23
14	Norway	19	10	21	21	20	20		22
15	Italy	16	14	5	1	19	9	2	8	3
16	Serbia	20	12	11	16	22	19		14
17	Finland	5	24	19	25	5	14		12
18	Portugal	12	5	3	8	15	11		21
19	Armenia	13	4	1	10	17	4	7	7	4
20	Cyprus	6	22	18	11	9	16		17
21	Switzerland	17	3	6	9	6	6	5	4	7
22	Slovenia	23	17	17	15	25	23		24
23	Croatia	7	9	10	14	1	5	6	2	10
24	Georgia	21	21	13	20	13	21		19
25	France	9	6	2	6	4	2	10	5	6
26	Austria	15	19	24	17	14	22		11

Notes

1. Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
2. Esther was allowed to give a second performance in episode 2.
3. Guest coaches (not voting): Yvonne Ambrée and Katrin Mickiewicz
4. Guest coach (not voting): Nikeata Thompson  [ de ]
5. Bibiane Z was selected for the final, where she was set to perform "Walk You Home Safe". ^[22] However, she was ultimately unable to attend the live show due to being ill and was thus forced to withdraw. ^[23]
6. The Netherlands was disqualified prior to the final. ^{[61] [62]}

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