The fifteenth season of the talent showThe Voice of Germany premiered on 25 September 2025. The show is broadcast by two local TV stations, ProSieben and Sat.1, during the Blind Auditions and the Battles.
Shirin David, Rea Garvey, Nico Santos, and duo Michi & Smudo returned as coaches after one, two, three, and six-season hiatuses, respectively.[1]Calum Scott is the new "Comeback Stage" coach, selecting contestants to participate in The Voice: Comeback Stage by SEAT.[2]Thore Schölermann returned for his fourteenth season as host, with Melissa Khalaj returning for her fourth season as host.[3]
In April 2025, ProSieben and Sat.1 announced that all four coaches from the previous season; Mark Forster, Yvonne Catterfeld, Kamrad, and Samu Haber; would depart the panel for the upcoming fifteenth season. This marks the third season to have all coaches from the previous panel replaced, following season 13 and 14. On 20 April 2025, it was announced that previous coaches Rea Garvey, duo Michi & Smudo, Nico Santos, and Shirin David will return as coaches for their eighth, sixth, third, and second seasons, respectively.[4] This marks the first time since the second season that a new coach has not been introduced.
On 19 August 2025, it was announced that Calum Scott would be featured as a coach for the "Comeback Stage", which was last present in season 11.[5]
The Blind Auditions began broadcasting on 25 September 2025, and is broadcast every Thursday on ProSieben and every Friday on Sat.1. This season, the blocks returned, but with a twist. Unlike the previous seasons, each coach now only has two blocks that they can use to block another coach. However, they can choose to use the block at any time, even during their pitch, as long as the coach turned their chair. Only one block is allowed per audition; once a coach already used their block, the other coaches are not allowed to use their block. In addition, this season introduced the Joker. Each coach has a coin and is only allowed to use it once to try to further convince the artist to join their team. Each coach has seventeen spots to fill on their team, and, unlike last season, each coach filled their team. This is the second season in The Voice of Germany history where at least one coach (Shirin David in this case) does not have a one-chair turn on their team.
Blind auditions color key
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Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button
Artist defaulted to this coach's team
Artist elected to join this coach's team
Artist was eliminated with no coach pressing their button
Artist received an 'All Turn'.
Coach used Joker on this artist
Artist was eliminated, but got a second chance to compete in "Comeback Stage"
Artist is an 'Allstar' contestant
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Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button, but was blocked by another coach from getting the artist:
^1 Nico unintentionally hit the Rea block button when leaning on his podium, nonetheless, the block remained.
^2 Michi & Smudo originally blocked Shirin, but after the performance they took it back and the block was removed making Shirin eligible to be picked
^3 During the episode, comeback stage coach Calum Scott surprised the coaches by performing his own song, "You Are the Reason", which earned him a four-chair turn.
Comeback Stage
This season's fifth coach, Calum Scott, selected artists who did not make a team during the blind auditions, as well as eliminated artists from later rounds of the competition, thus creating new rounds to The Voice: Comeback Stage by SEAT. The two winners compete in the live shows against the talents of the main coaches (Garvey, Michi & Smudo, David, and Santos), singing for a chance to win the fifteenth season of The Voice of Germany.
Comeback Stage color key
Artist was immediately eliminated after not being seated
Artist was seated, but swapped out with another talent and was eliminated
Artist was seated and advanced to the Second Round
Artist won The Comeback Stage and advanced to the Live shows
First round
During the first round of the competition, the four selected artists from Blind auditions went head to head, four artists per episode, and Scott selected two artists to sit in the Hot-Seats and compete against other artists that were eliminated in the Battles.
Contestants who appeared on other TV shows or previous seasons
Other TV shows
Igor Santos Barbosa was a contestant in the 13th season "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" in 2016, where he was eliminated in the Semi-Finals and came in 5th place.
Manuël Stepanov was a contestant in the 18th season "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" in 2021, where he didn't reach the Recall.
Allstar contestants
Maël & Jonas competed in the tenth season as part of Nico Santos' team and finished in third place.
Christian Haas competed in the ninth season as part of Rea Garvey's team and was eliminated in the Sing-Offs.
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