Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Participating broadcaster KiKa
Participation summary
Appearances3
First appearance 2020
Highest placement9th: 2023
Participation history
External links
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Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023

Germany debuted at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. KiKa, the children's channel jointly owned by European Broadcasting Union (EBU) members ARD and ZDF, is responsible for the country's participation. Germany finished last place on their debut in 2020, when Susan Oseloff represented the country with "Stronger with You". For the 2021 competition, KiKa selected Pauline with the song "Imagine Us".

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History

Germany was originally going to take part in the 2003 contest in Copenhagen, but later withdrew from the contest. [1] They also planned to take part in the 2004 contest in Lillehammer but again withdrew from the contest. [2] In addition, NDR also broadcast the 2003, [3] 2015 [4] and 2016 contests. [5] For 2003, the broadcaster organised a delayed broadcast on KiKa whilst the contests in 2015 and 2016 were livestreamed via the broadcaster's Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.de with commentary provided by Thomas Mohr. [6]

In May 2014, NDR announced they would not debut at the 2014 contest as they believed the contest would not be a success under German television marketing standards. [7] They did, however, observe the 2013 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. ZDF attended the 2014 Contest in Malta. On 1 July 2015, ARD consortium member NDR launched an online poll to decide whether Germany should participate in the 2015 contest, which would be broadcast on their children's station, KiKa (a joint venture of ARD and ZDF). [8] Germany ultimately did not participate.

In December 2019, KiKA confirmed that a delegation from the broadcaster and NDR was attending the 2019 contest in Gliwice, Poland to experience the competition as part of the audience. It was emphasised that no decision had yet been made as to whether Germany would participate the following year or not although there were close discussions with the EBU. [9]

On 8 July 2020, KiKA confirmed that a delegation from broadcasters NDR and ZDF was participating for the first time in the 2020 contest in Warsaw. [10] Their first ever representative, Susan Oseloff, finished in last place during the final on 29 November 2020, scoring 66 points. Nevertheless, Germany confirmed their participation in 2021 contest in France. [11] On 10 September 2021, a national final was held to select the German representative for the 2021 contest, and it was won by Pauline Steinmüller with the song "Imagine Us". [12] In Paris, Pauline finished 17th out of 19 countries, receiving 61 points.

On 2 August 2022, KiKA and NDR confirmed they would not be participating in the 2022 edition in Yerevan, Armenia, wanting to take a "creative break", and citing partial travel warnings for Armenia issued by the Federal Foreign Office. They also confirmed that KiKA would still be broadcasting the contest. The country returned to the contest in 2023. [13] Their entrant for 2023, Fia, with song "Ohne Worte" was also selected through a national final. [14] At the 2023 contest, held in Nice, Fia achieved the best result for Germany so far, finishing 9th with 107 points.

Participation overview

Table key
◁Last place
†Upcoming event
YearArtistSongLanguagePlacePoints
2020 Susan"Stronger with You" German, English12 ◁66
2021 Pauline"Imagine Us"German, English1761
2023 Fia"Ohne Worte"German [lower-alpha 1] 9107

Commentators and spokespersons

Prior to their first participation in 2020, Germany had broadcast the competition on three occasions.

YearChannel(s)CommentatorSpokespersonRef.
2003 KiKa Un­knownDid not participate [3]
2015 NDR websiteThomas Mohr [16]
2016 [5]
2020 KiKaBürger Lars DietrichOlivia [17] [18]
2021 Constantin Zöller (Consi)Venetia [19] [20]
2022 Did not participate [21] [22]
2023 Vivienne Craig [23]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Contains phrases in French, English and Spanish. [15]

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