Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023
CountryFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
National selection
Selection processNational final
Selection date(s)18 September 2023
Selected entrantFia
Selected song"Ohne Worte"
Selected songwriter(s)
Finals performance
Final result9th, 107 points
Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Germany competed in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in France, which was held on 26 November 2023 in Nice. National television station KiKa was responsible for the participation and selected the nation's entrant via national selection, won by Fia with the song "Ohne Worte". [1] [2] The song came 9th overall, Germany's best result in the contest to date, [3] and was notable for being the first time a JESC entry had used sign language as well as vocals. [4]

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Background

Germany announced on 8 July 2020 that it would debut in the 2020 contest held in Warsaw, Poland. [5] Children's station KiKa, a joint venture of the German national broadcasters ARD and ZDF, broadcasts the event within Germany and organises the selection of the nation's entry. Their most recent entry before the 2023 contest was Pauline and her song "Imagine Us", who placed 17th with 61 points in the 2021 contest. [6]

In 2022, the country chose not to participate and instead took a "creative break" due to partial travel warnings for host country Armenia issued by the Federal Foreign Office. KiKa still broadcast the show and expressed interest in returning to the 2023 competition. [7] [8] The German broadcaster confirmed on 25 May 2023 that they would take part and, for the first time, select the German representative internally. [9] However, in early August it was reported that more details regarding the country's participation would be revealed at the end of the month, [10] and on 23 August it was revealed that a national final with 5 acts approached by the public broadcaster NDR would be held in September to select the German act for the contest instead. [11] [12]

Before Junior Eurovision

National final

The participants and one-minute excerpts of the demo versions of their songs were revealed on 8 September with a voting platform launching immediately afterwards, [13] [14] where viewers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland could cast their votes until 17 September. Following the combination of the results of the online voting (50%) and an international expert jury (50%), German child singer of Chinese descent Fia was announced as the winner of the selection on 18 September. [12] [15] [16] [17] The international jury consisted of Kelvin Jones, Tom Gregory and Christopher, as well as other unnamed members from France, Germany, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom. [16]

ArtistSongJuryOnline votingPlace
Adriano"Be My Girl"5th3rd4
Fia"Ohne Worte"1st1st1
Lenny"Lieben lernen"4th5th5
Rahel"Believe"3rd2nd2
Toby"Stand Up"2nd4th3

Preparation

The full version of "Ohne Worte" was recorded following the national final. The song is about how Fia communicates with her deaf sister (the title meaning "without words" in English), and in both the live performance and the accompanying music video she performs it simultaneously in German and Signed German. [18] Fia was the first-ever Junior Eurovision participant to perform her entry in sign language –sign language had already featured in the performance of Viki Gabor, who represented Poland in 2019, however it was performed by a background dancer and not the singer herself. [4] [19]

The song was released on 13 October, [20] [21] together with an accompanying music video, [22] in which Fia is accompanied by deaf performer & model Liliana Schneider. [23]

An open call searching for a dancer to symbolise Fia's sister in the live performance was opened by the NT Dance Agency and was won by Veronika, who specialises in contemporary and commercial dance. [24]

At Junior Eurovision

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 took place at Palais Nikaïa in Nice, France on 26 November 2023.

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten. [25]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 24 November 2023 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 26 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for three songs. [26] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

At the end of the show, Germany received 33 points from juries and 74 points from online voting, placing 9th. This was Germany's best result in the contest to date. [3]

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the German jury: [27]

Detailed voting results from Germany [3]
DrawCountryJuror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror EAverage RankPoints Awarded
01Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 24235210
02Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 738141592
03Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 4714947
04Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 10121291314
05Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 115131665
06Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia 136710274
07Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 6136151411
08Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 12423112
09Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 511061156
10Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 12814104101
11Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 14109121215
12Flag of France.svg  France 3937138
13Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 9141111812
14Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 8151581013
15Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
16Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 151155783

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