German Schlager Competition 1973
The fourth German Schlager Competition took place on September 19, 1973 in TV studio A of the SFB in Berlin .
The “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schlagerwettbewerb” was set up as the successor organization to the “Association for the Promotion of German Dance and Entertainment Music” to carry out the competition. V. “founded. Chairman was GEMA -Generaldirektor Erich Schulze selected.
In March 1973 the German record companies were asked to propose one or more artists from their company for the competition. From the 44 nominations that came together, a jury selected twelve performers for whom composers and lyricists could submit titles by the end of April 1973.
From these, two songs per performer were selected, which were presented to the listeners of the eleven ARD radio stations as well as Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandfunk in August 1973 . By means of a representative survey of the listeners carried out by Infratest and the assessment by an expert jury, the better title of the individual performers was then selected for the competition from the offer.
The final round was moderated by Helga Guitton . For the first time as part of such a competition, the contributions were presented in full playback in order (according to the official explanation) to reproduce the recordings true to the original.
The decision on the winner was made by a jury made up of six music-interested laypeople and six representatives from various broadcasters.
The jury was made up of:
Helga Boddin , entertainment editor at the North German Radio (NDR) in Hamburg,
Franz Frankenberg, editor of the entertainment department of Radio Bremen (RB),
Hans Hirschmann , head of the main entertainment department at Südwestfunk (SWF) in Baden -Baden,
Hans Rosenthal , head of the entertainment department at RIAS Berlin ,
Chris Striegler, editor of the main television entertainment department of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne,
Emil Zalud, editor of the entertainment department on television of Saarland Broadcasting (SR) in Saarbrücken,
Grethe Scherpe, housewife from Berlin, age: 30 years,
Karin Martini, student from Hamburg, age: 18 years,
Monika Winkler, secretary from Munich, age: 30 years,
Robert Scheiterbauer, student of economics from Cologne, age: 24 years,
Eddie Rebmann, television technician from Stuttgart, age: 38 years
and
Michael Groß, student of theology from Bremen, age: 24 years.
The participants 1973
| space | title | Interpreter | Points | music | text |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The song | Olivia Molina | 54 | Horst Heinz Henning | Hans-Georg Moslener |
| 2. | Hello, neighbor | Cindy & Bert | 50 | Charly Niessen | Gary Unwin |
| 3. | Keep turning, ballerina | Anne-Karin | 48 | Walter Leissle | Gustav Brendel |
| 4th | I'm so looking forward to tomorrow | Lena Valaitis | 46 | Marion Haensch | Herbert Thusek |
| 5. | Tomorrow is a new day | Ireen Sheer | 43 | Ralph Siegel | Günter Behrle |
| 6th | Now the party is really getting started | Severine | 35 | Hans Blum | Hans Blum |
| 7th | Love what is that | Marion Maerz | 33 | Boris Jojc | Michael Kunze |
| 8th. | Berlin, Berlin | Peggy March | 30th | Ralph Siegel | Joachim Relin |
| 8th. | Carolina come | Costa Cordalis | 30th | Ralph Siegel | Kurt Hertha |
| 10. | come to me | Ulli Martin | 26th | Klaus Munro | Mario Panas |
| 10. | Rosemary and Company | Graham Bonney | 26th | Christian Bruhn | Robert Jung |
| 12. | In the bodega of Mexico | Teddy Parker | 23 | Henry Mayer | Günter Behrle |
The following eleven titles did not qualify for the final round:
- Gitano, Anne-Karin
- The man who speaks the news on television, Graham Bonney
- Friday evening, Cindy & Bert
- Paradise lost, Marion Maerz
- Hand in hand, Peggy March
- Don't go home, Ulli Martin
- Answer to all questions, Olivia Molina
- Young love breaks all chains, Teddy Parker
- Goodbye, Paris, Séverine
- And when the sun shines, no one thinks of the rain Ireen Sheer
- You can't forbid me to love you, Lena Valaitis
Disqualified:
- Gypsy suffering, Costa Cordalis
Overview of the final results after jury evaluation of the 1973 German Schlager Competition
| space | title | Juror 1 | Juror 2 | Juror 3 | Juror 4 | Juror 5 | Juror 6 | Juror 7 | Juror 8 | Juror 9 | Juror 10 | Juror 11 | Juror 12 | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The song | 5 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 4th | 5 | 4th | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 54 |
| 2. | Hello, neighbor | 5 | 4th | 3 | 3 | 4th | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4th | 4th | 50 |
| 3. | Keep turning, ballerina | 3 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 3 | 4th | 4th | 4th | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 48 |
| 4th | I'm so looking forward to tomorrow | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 3 | 4th | 4th | 4th | 5 | 46 |
| 5. | Tomorrow is a new day | 4th | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 2 | 3 | 43 |
| 6th | Now the party is really getting started | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4th | 35 |
| 7th | Love what is that | 3 | 4th | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 33 |
| 8th. | Berlin, Berlin | 2 | 2 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 30th |
| 8th. | Carolina come | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4th | 30th |
| 10. | come to me | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 26th |
| 10. | Rosemary and Company | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 26th |
| 12. | In the bodega of Mexico | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 23 |
Each member of the jury was able to give each title on a scale from 1 to 5 at best 5 points as the highest value and one point as the lowest value. In the worst case, a title could have achieved at least 12 and in the best case up to 60 points in the total. The following overview shows the exact order of the jurors during the awarding of points:
Juror 1: Helga Boddin
Juror 2: Franz Frankenberg
Juror 3: Hans Hirschmann
Juror 4: Hans Rosenthal
Juror 5: Chris Striegler
Juror 6: Emil Zalud
Juror 7: Grethe Scherpe
Juror 8 : Karin Martini
Juror 9: Monika Winkler
Juror 10: Robert Scheiterbauer
Juror 11: Eddie Rebmann
Juror 12: Michael Groß
Trivia
Although almost all participating interpreters were currently successful at the time of the competition, hardly any of them achieved commercial success with their contribution. The only things to be emphasized in this regard are Séverine , Anne-Karin , Graham Bonney , Lena Valaitis and Costa Cordalis . The song by the blonde French woman Séverine Now the party really starts was presented again on October 20, 1973 in the 51st ZDF hit parade . In the period that followed, it became a popular hit that is inseparable from her name to this day. In addition, it has become and has remained a real classic of the genre. Also on October 20, 1973, Graham Bonney found himself with Rosemary and Companie among the new releases on the 51st ZDF hit parade, only to make another appearance on November 17, 1973 in fourth place in the 52nd edition. In this 52nd ZDF hit parade, Anne-Karin also presented her song Dreh dich weiter Ballerina again, which in the following years also developed into a respectable radio hit. Lena Valaitis was also represented on the evening of November 17, 1973 among the new releases in the 52nd edition. You can't forbid me to love you with her title , although she didn't make it to the finals of the Schlager competition, but was all the more successful with the German pop audience at the time. Only Costa Cordalis was able to achieve a real hit with Carolina komm in the period following the German Schlager Competition in 1973. After its re-launch on November 17, 1973 in the 52nd ZDF hit parade, the title came first in the two subsequent monthly issues 53 and 54 of December 15, 1973 and January 26, 1974, respectively. This made Carolina komm the absolute leader of the German hit in a row during this period. All other entries of the German Schlagerwettbewerb 1973, including the more chanson-like and musically and lyrically somewhat more demanding winner's title, were largely denied a noteworthy major hit and audience success.