A song for Munich
| A song for Munich | |
|---|---|
| Preliminary decision data | |
| country |   | 
| place | Munich , BR-Studio 4 | 
| date | March 19, 1983 | 
| Moderation | |
| Carolin Reiber | |
The German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 took place under the title Ein Lied für München .
Carolin Reiber , who moderated the preliminary round in previous years , led the show .
system
The Bayerische Rundfunk retained the mode of previous years due to the success of Genghis Khan , Katja Ebstein , Lena Valaitis and the victory by Nicole in the previous year.
A jury of thirteen professionals from the entertainment industry selected the 24 semi-finalists from 735 submissions, from which the radio listeners chose the 12 finalists.
After the preliminary decision, which this year took place five weeks before the Eurovision Song Contest , 500 representative radio listeners and television viewers were interviewed by telephone after the twelve titles had run through the polling institute Infratest . During the broadcast, they had to rate the twelve titles using a given point scale.
Scoreboard of the preliminary decision
The following table shows the scores of the intermediate results with the following percentages:
Round 1: 11.70% of the votes cast, Round 2 at 30.80%, Round 3: 57.12%.
| No. | Interpreter | Title  (music / text)  | 
Round 1  place  | 
Round 2  place  | 
Round 3  place  | 
Final score | space | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holger Thomas | 
My hit is called Susi Schmidt   ( Jean Frankfurter / Robert Jung )  | 
342  9.  | 
854  10.  | 
1584  10.  | 
2609 | 10. | 
| 2 | Veronika Fischer | 
Infinitely far   ( Achim Oppermann / Christoph Busse )  | 
303  11.  | 
790  11.  | 
1463  11.  | 
2523 | 11. | 
| 3 | Hoffmann & Hoffmann | 
Consideration   ( Michael Reinecke / Volker Lechtenbrink )  | 
487  1.  | 
1328  1.  | 
2436  1.  | 
4251 | 1. | 
| 4th | Angela Branca | 
Why don't you hold me tight   ( Alexander Gordan & Konrad Wolf )  | 
331  10.  | 
967  8.  | 
1806  8.  | 
3222 | 8th. | 
| 5 | Bernd Clüver | 
At seventeen   ( Dieter Bohlen / René Marcardt )  | 
449  4.  | 
1179  3.  | 
2215  3.  | 
3933 | 3. | 
| 6th | Ingrid Peters & July Paul | 
Viva la Mamma   ( Michael Hofmann / Werner Schüler )  | 
459  2.  | 
1198  2.  | 
2247  2.  | 
3983 | 2. | 
| 7th | Peter Rubin | 
Like a man   ( Günther-Eric Thöner & Peter Rubin / Barbara Wittner )  | 
375  7.  | 
1072  6.  | 
1972  6.  | 
3427 | 6th | 
| 8th | Wencke Myhre & Son | 
We both against the wind   (Achim Oppermann / Christoph Busse)  | 
453  3.  | 
1157  4.  | 
2110  5.  | 
3752 | 5. | 
| 9 | Harry Belten | 
Angelo   ( Michael Zai / Theo Werdin )  | 
266  12.  | 
688  12.  | 
1201  12.  | 
2111 | 12. | 
| 10 | Leinemann | 
I'm tearing down all walls   ( Hansi Goldfuß / Gerd Thumser )  | 
423  6.  | 
1017  7.  | 
1933  7.  | 
3314 | 7th | 
| 11 | Mara | 
Star Land   ( Joachim Heider / Norbert Hammerschmidt )  | 
358  8.  | 
918  9.  | 
1678  9.  | 
2987 | 9. | 
| 12 | Costa Cordalis | 
I like you   (Costa Cordalis / Jean Frankfurter)  | 
434  5.  | 
1156  5.  | 
2209  4.  | 
3902 | 4th |