Germany is looking for the superstar / Season 9

Season 9 of Germany is looking for the superstar
Episodes	24
Country of production	Germany
Manufacturing company	UFA Show & Factual GmbH
First broadcast	January 7, 2012 - April 28, 2012 on RTL
occupation
Moderation	Marco Schreyl
other contributors	jury Dieter Bohlen Natalie Horler Bruce Darnell
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Luca Hänni , the winner of the ninth season.

The ninth season of the German singing casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar was broadcast from January 7th to April 28th, 2012 on the RTL television program.

New jurors in addition to Dieter Bohlen were Natalie Horler and Bruce Darnell . The age limit of 30 years for candidates in previous seasons has been removed. For the first time, in addition to a record deal, the winner also received a prize of 500,000 euros. The recall with the best 36 candidates took place again in the Maldives .

In the final, Luca Hänni was able to prevail against Daniele Negroni .

Candidates for the theme shows

space	candidate	Retired on	motto
1.	luca Haenni	winner	Final song of your choice, season highlight and winner's title
2.	Daniele Negroni	April 28
3.	Jesse Ritch	April 21	Semi-finals (no specific motto)
4th	Fabienne Rothe	April 14th	Classic, Pop and Rock
5.	Joey Heindle	7th of April	Unplugged vs. Power songs
6th	Kristof Hering	March 31	Solo & duets
7th	Hamed Anousheh	March 24th	Off to the south
8th.	Vanessa Krasniqi	17. March	Heart songs for you
9.	Silvia Amaru	March 10th	Party hits
10.	Thomas Pegram	3 March	Great hits
11. to 16.	Christian Schöne	February 25	Who will make it into the top 10?
	Jana Škoļina
	Ursula James
	Marcello Ciurlia
	Dennis Richter
	Angel Burjansky

Motto shows and results

Voting results of the ninth season

	Top 16 show Who will make it into the top 10?	Mottoshow 1 Hammer Hits	Mottoshow 2 party hits	Mottoshow 3 heart songs for you	Mottoshow 4 Off to the south	Mottoshow 5 solo and duets	Mottoshow 6 Unplugged vs. Power songs	Mottoshow 7 classic, pop and rock	Mottoshow 8 semi-finals	Mottoshow 9 finals
1st place	Luca 17.44%	Luca 17.49%	Luca 17.66%	Joey 26.59%	Fabienne 24.33%	Jesse 21.41%	Daniele 23.59%	Daniele 27.97%	Daniele 34.62%	Luca 52.85%
place 2	Joey 14.12%	Joey 14.84%	Joey 16.61%	Daniele 15.27%	Joey 16.31%	Luca 19.47%	Luca 21.86%	Luca 26.02%	Luca 32.83%	Daniele 47.15%
place 3	Daniele 12.97%	Daniele 14.39%	Daniele 14.51%	Luca 14.89%	Luca 15.67%	Daniele 17.39%	Jesse 21.66%	Jesse 25.70%	Jesse 32.55%
4th place	Jesse 8.00%	Vanessa 11.93%	Fabienne 10.35%	Fabienne 9.69%	Daniele 14.37%	Joey 16.17%	Fabienne 17.32%	Fabienne 20.31%
5th place	Hamed 7.00%	Fabienne 10.76%	Hamed 10.03%	Jesse 9.58%	Kristof 10.67%	Fabienne 16.14%	Joey 15.57%
Rank 6	Vanessa 6.90%	Hamed 8.10%	Vanessa 9.48%	Hamed 9.14%	Jesse 9.77%	Kristof 9.42%
7th place	Fabienne 5.63%	Jesse 7.10%	Kristof 8.07%	Kristof 7.46%	Hamed 8.88%
8th place	Kristof 4.26%	Silvia 5.84%	Jesse 7.66%	Vanessa 7.38%
9th place	Thomas 3.98%	Kristof 5.53%	Silvia 5.63%
Place 10	Silvia 3.65%	Thomas 4.02%
11th place	Christian 3.60%
12th place	Jana 3.21%
13th place	Ursula 2.70%
14th place	Marcello 2.57%
15th place	Dennis 2.16%
16th place	Angel 1.81%

Who will make it into the top 10? - The top 16 show

The first live show of the ninth season took place on February 25, 2012. The top 16 candidates sang the song Good Feeling by Flo Rida at the beginning of the show . The ten candidates with the most caller votes went straight through. In contrast to previous years, the last six were eliminated immediately without a jury decision. Due to a voting mishap (the candidate Christian Schöne turned up the numbers), online users were able to vote for a second chance for Schöne on the RTL Internet portal for 24 hours on the following Tuesday, but the majority decided against it.

	Start number	Surname	Age *	Artist, song	comment	placement
	01	Ursula James	20th	Rihanna - We Found Love	eliminated	13 (2.70%)
	02	Daniele Negroni	16	Cee-Lo Green - Forget You!	further	3 (12.97%)
	03	Fabienne Rothe	16	Maria Mena - Just Hold Me	further	7 (5.63%)
	04	Christian Schöne	34	Queen - I Want to Break Free	eliminated	11 (3.60%)
	05	Marcello Ciurlia	16	Bryan Adams - Summer of '69	eliminated	14 (2.57%)
	06	Angel Burjansky	16	Oleta Adams - Get Here	eliminated	16 (1.81%)
	07	Silvia Amaru	21st	Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody	further	10 (3.65%)
	08	Jesse Ritch	20th	Mario - Let Me Love You	further	4 (8.00%)
	09	Kristof Hering	22nd	Peter Maffay - And it was summer	further	8 (4.26%)
	10	Dennis Richter	28	James Morrison - I Won't Let You Go	eliminated	15 (2.16%)
	11	Jana Skolina	21st	Katy Perry - The One That Got Away	eliminated	12 (3.21%)
	12	Hamed Anousheh	25th	Taio Cruz feat. Flo Rida - Hangover	further	5 (7.00%)
	13	Thomas Pegram	27	James Taylor - You've Got a Friend	further	9 (3.98%)
	14th	Joey Heindle	18th	3 Doors Down - Here Without You	further	2 (14.12%)
	15th	Vanessa Krasniqi	17th	Mariah Carey - I'll Be There	further	6 (6.90%)
	16	luca Haenni	17th	Ed Sheeran - The A Team	further	1 (17.44%)

* at the beginning of the live shows (due date: February 25, 2012)

First motto show

The first motto show took place on March 3, 2012. It had the motto Hammer Hits. The top 10 candidates sang the song Troublemaker by Taio Cruz at the beginning of the show . Since this show you can vote on the Internet via the RTL.de trend check, flop of the week . This week Kristof Hering was elected. At 12:37 a.m. Marco Schreyl announced that Thomas Pegram had left. The four youngest participants Daniele, Fabienne, Luca and Vanessa were no longer allowed to stand on stage from midnight (or 10 p.m. for Fabienne) due to regulations in the Youth Labor Protection Act and saw the decision from the audience. Before the decision was made, a recording of the title Joyrider , which all participants had sung for use in Opel advertising, was shown. You can download this song for free at opel.de.

	Start number	Surname	Age *	Artist, song	comment	placement
	01	Silvia Amaru	21st	Jessie J - Dominoes	straight on	8 (5.84%)
	02	Kristof Hering	23	Matthias Reim - Damn, I love you	indirectly further	9 (5.53%)
	03	Thomas Pegram	27	Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror	eliminated	10 (4.02%)
	04	Joey Heindle	18th	Train - Hey, Soul Sister	straight on	2 (14.84%)
	05	Vanessa Krasniqi	17th	Adele - Rolling in the Deep	straight on	4 (11.93%)
	06	Jesse Ritch	20th	Ne-Yo - So sick	straight on	7 (7.10%)
	07	Daniele Negroni	16	Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls	indirectly further	3 (14.39%)
	08	Fabienne Rothe	16	Frida Gold - What should we dream of	straight on	5 (10.76%)
	09	Hamed Anousheh	25th	James Morrison - You Give Me Something	straight on	6 (8.10%)
	10	luca Haenni	17th	Boyzone - Baby Can I Hold You	straight on	1 (17.49%)

* on the day of motto show 1 (March 3, 2012)

Second motto show

The second motto show took place on March 10, 2012. It was themed Party Hits . The top 9 candidates sang the song Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO feat at the beginning of the show . Lauren Bennett & GoonRock . The RTL.de trend check: This time Kristof was also the flop of the week .

	Start number	Surname	Age *	Artist, song	comment	placement
	01	Kristof Hering	23	Michel Teló - Ai Se Eu Te Pego	straight on	7 (8.07%)
	02	Fabienne Rothe	16	Emilíana Torrini - Jungle Drum	straight on	4 (10.35%)
	03	Jesse Ritch	20th	Chris Brown - Yeah 3x	indirectly further	8 (7.66%)
	04	Silvia Amaru	21st	Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - On the Floor	eliminated	9 (5.63%)
	05	luca Haenni	17th	Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris - baby	straight on	1 (17.66%)
	06	Daniele Negroni	16	Kid Rock - All Summer Long	straight on	3 (14.51%)
	07	Vanessa Krasniqi	17th	David Guetta feat. Sia - titanium	straight on	6 (9.48%)
	08	Joey Heindle	18th	Alcazar - Crying at the Discotheque	indirectly further	2 (16.61%)
	09	Hamed Anousheh	25th	Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo , Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything	straight on	5 (10.03%)

* on the day of motto show 2 (March 10, 2012)

Third theme show

The third motto show took place on March 17th, 2012. It carried the motto heart songs for you . The top 8 candidates sang the song For You by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the version of the Disco Boys at the beginning of the show . In the trend check of RTL.de this week the flop of the week was chosen again. It was Kristof Hering for the third time in a row. At the end of the decision show, Marco Schreyl announced that Vanessa Krasniqi had to leave the DSDS villa.

	Start number	Surname	Age *	Artist, song	comment	placement
	01	Daniele Negroni	16	Jan Delay - Oh Jonny	straight on	2 (15.27%)
	02	Jesse Ritch	20th	Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are	straight on	5 (9.58%)
	03	Kristof Hering	23	Peter Maffay - So are you	indirectly further	7 (7.46%)
	04	Fabienne Rothe	16	Duffy - Mercy	straight on	4 (9.69%)
	05	Vanessa Krasniqi	17th	Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love	eliminated	8 (7.38%)
	06	luca Haenni	17th	Kings of Leon - Use Somebody (piano version by Laura Jansen )	straight on	3 (14.89%)
	07	Hamed Anousheh	25th	Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger	straight on	6 (9.14%)
	08	Joey Heindle	18th	Herbert Grönemeyer - The way	indirectly further	1 (26.59%)

* on the day of motto show 3 (March 17th, 2012)

Fourth theme show

The fourth motto show took place on March 24, 2012 and carried the motto Off to the south . Daniele Negroni sang the song with the motto: "Off to the south". The top 7 candidates sang the song I Was Made for Lovin 'You by Kiss at the beginning of the show . In the RTL.de trend check, “Flop of the Week”, candidate Kristof Hering was elected for the fourth time in a row. At 11.30 p.m. Marco Schreyl announced that Hamed Anousheh had left and had to leave the DSDS villa.

	Start number	Surname	Age *	Artist, song	comment	placement
	01	Jesse Ritch	20th	Lucenzo feat. Don Omar - Danza Kuduro	indirectly further	6 (9.77%)
	02	Fabienne Rothe	16	2-room apartment - 36 degrees	straight on	1 (24.33%)
	03	Kristof Hering	23	Dieter Thomas Kuhn - Above the clouds	straight on	5 (10.67%)
	04	luca Haenni	17th	Sting - Fields of Gold	indirectly further	3 (15.67%)
	05	Hamed Anousheh	25th	Olly Murs feat. Rizzle Kicks - Heart Skips a Beat	eliminated	7 (8.88%)
	06	Joey Heindle	18th	John Paul Young - Love Is in the Air	straight on	2 (16.31%)
	07	Daniele Negroni	16	Buddy feat. DJ The Wave - off to the south	straight on	4 (14.37%)

* on the day of Mottoshow 4 (March 24, 2012)

Fifth theme show

The fifth motto show took place on March 31, 2012 and had the motto Solo and Duets . The top 6 candidates sang two songs for the first time, and for the first time in DSDS history, duets could be heard in the live shows. At the beginning of the show, the 6 candidates sang the song Without You by David Guetta feat. Usher . First the duets were sung, then the solos. The "flop of the week" of the RTL.de trend check was Kristof Hering for the fifth time in a row.
At the beginning of the decision show, at 11.49 p.m., the Overtones sang their single Gambling Man , which is also the song for the new station RTL Nitro , which will run from April 1, 2012. At 12.11 a.m. Marco Schreyl announced that Kristof Hering had left.

	Start number	Surname	Age *	1st artist, song	2nd artist, song	comment	placement
	01	Jesse Ritch	20th	Taio Cruz feat. Kylie Minogue - Higher	Usher feat. Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin 'in Love	straight on	1 (21.41%)
	02	Fabienne Rothe	16		Yael Naim - New Soul	indirectly further	5 (16.14%)
	03	Daniele Negroni	16	Village People - YMCA	Caligola - Forgive Forget	straight on	3 (17.39%)
	04	Kristof Hering	23		Roland Kaiser - Joana	eliminated	6 (9.42%)
	05	luca Haenni	17th	Enrique Iglesias - Hero	Milow - You and Me (In My Pocket)	straight on	2 (19.47%)
	06	Joey Heindle	18th		Xavier Naidoo - Please don't stop dreaming	indirectly further	4 (16.17%)

* on the day of motto show 5 (March 31, 2012)

Sixth theme show

The sixth motto show took place on April 7, 2012. It had the motto Unplugged vs. Power songs . At the beginning of the show, the top 5 candidates sang the song Don't Wanna Go Home by Jason Derulo . An unplugged song and a power song were sung alternately. The "RTL.de trend check flop of the week" was Joey Heindle, who also had to leave. Marco Schreyl announced the result at 11:54 p.m.

	Start number	Surname	Age *	1st artist, song	2nd artist, song	comment	placement
	01	Fabienne Rothe	16	Adele - Someone Like You (piano version)	Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - Hello	indirectly further	4 (17.32%)
	02	Jesse Ritch	20th	Jason Derulo - Breathing	Blue - Breathe Easy (piano version)	straight on	3 (21.66%)
	03	Daniele Negroni	16	Udo Lindenberg feat. Clueso - cello (guitar version)	Bon Jovi - It's My Life	straight on	1 (23.59%)
	04	Joey Heindle	18th	Bruno Mars - Grenade	Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes (Guitar Version)	eliminated	5 (15.57%)
	05	luca Haenni	17th	Plain White T’s - Hey There Delilah (guitar version)	Hurts - Wonderful Life	indirectly further	2 (21.86%)

* on the day of motto show 6 (April 7, 2012)

Seventh theme show

The seventh motto show took place on April 14th and had the motto classic, pop and rock . The candidates sang three songs for the first time. At the beginning of the show, the top 4 candidates sang the song Turn This Club Around by RIO feat. U-Jean. The flop of the week of the RTL.de trend check was Fabienne Rothe.

First the pop, then the rock and finally the classical songs were sung. For the first time there was a so-called "immediate decision", that is, the decision came immediately after the show and was not interrupted by a break and another show for an hour. Schreyl announced the result at 10:57 p.m. Therefore, in contrast to Fabienne, Daniele and Luca were still allowed to stand on stage. The latter was eliminated and took 4th place. She is the top ranked girl of the ninth season.

	Start number	Surname	Age *	1st artist, song (pop)	2nd artist, song (rock)	3rd artist, song (classical)	comment	placement
	01	Fabienne Rothe	16	Katy Perry - Hot'n'Cold	Alannah Myles - Black Velvet	Rosenstolz - love is everything	eliminated	4 (20.31%)
	02	Jesse Ritch	20th	Sean Paul - She Doesn't Mind	Europe - The Final Countdown	Michael Jackson - Earth Song	indirectly further	3 (25.70%)
	03	Daniele Negroni	16	Boyzone - No Matter What	Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire	Guns N 'Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's Door	straight on	1 (27.97%)
	04	luca Haenni	17th	Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi - Beautiful People	Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars	Philipp Poisel - Iron Bridge	straight on	2 (26.02%)

* on the day of motto show 7 (April 14, 2012)

Semifinals

The eighth motto show took place on April 21, 2012. It was the semi-finals and had no specific motto. The last three candidates sang three songs again. At the beginning of the show, the top 3 candidates sang the song Relight My Fire by Dan Hartman . At the end they sang one more song, Live My Life by Far East Movement feat. Justin Bieber . Immediately afterwards there was another "immediate decision" in which Marco Schreyl announced that Jesse was third in DSDS 2012.

	Start number	Surname	Age *	1st artist, song	2nd artist, song	3rd artist, song	comment	placement
	01	Daniele Negroni	16	Madcon - Beggin '	The Calling - Wherever You Will Go	Train - Drive By	straight on	1 (34.62%)
	02	Jesse Ritch	20th	Bisou - The first tear	The Police - Every Breath You Take	Craig David - Unbelievable	eliminated	3 (32.55%)
	03	luca Haenni	17th	The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved	DJ Antoine feat. The Beat Shakers - Ma Chérie	Silbermond - The best	indirectly further	2 (32.83%)

* on the day of the semi-finals (April 21, 2012)

final

The final took place on April 28, 2012. The two finalists sang the title Don't Think About Me, composed by Dieter Bohlen . In addition, the two sang a song of their choice and their personal season highlight. At the beginning of the show, all the top 10 candidates, except for the two finalists, sang the song Good Feeling by Flo Rida again . Luca and Daniele then sang the song There She Goes by Taio Cruz . After the second song there was another duet between the two: Almost Lover from A Fine Frenzy .
Since both finalists are still minors, there was again the "immediate decision" after the last song.

Luca Hänni is the winner of the ninth season and thus superstar 2012 .

	Start number	Surname	Age *	1st artist, song (song of your choice)	2nd artist, song (season highlight)	3rd artist, song (final song)	comment	placement
	01	Daniele Negroni	16	Mando Diao - Dance with Somebody	Caligola - Forgive Forget	Composition by Dieter Bohlen - Don't Think About Me	2nd place	2 (47.15%)
	02	luca Haenni	17th	Arctic Circle 18 - Alone Alone	Ed Sheeran - The A Team	Composition by Dieter Bohlen - Don't Think About Me	winner	1 (52.85%)

* on the day of the final (April 28, 2012)

Odds

episode	Content of the episode	First broadcast	Attendance from 3 years	Market share from 3 years	Attendance 14 to 49 year olds	Market share for 14 to 49 year olds
Episode 01	Castings	Sat Jan 7, 2012	6.17 million	18.8%	3.70 million	31.0%
Episode 02	Castings	Wed, January 11, 2012	5.56 million	17.1%	3.41 million	26.6%
Episode 03	Castings	Sat Jan 14, 2012	5.84 million	18.5%	3.25 million	28.9%
Episode 04	Castings	Wed January 18, 2012	5.22 million	15.6%	3.31 million	25.2%
Episode 05	Castings	Sat Jan 21, 2012	5.10 million	? %	2.94 million	24.7%
Episode 06	Castings	Wed, January 25, 2012	5.52 million	16.8%	3.47 million	27.5%
Episode 07	Castings	Sat, Jan 28, 2012	5.45 million	17.5%	3.24 million	29.2%
Episode 08	Recall 1	Wed, February 1, 2012	5.64 million	17.0%	3.54 million	27.5%
Episode 09	Recall 2	Sat, Feb 4, 2012	5.60 million	17.4%	3.31 million	28.2%
Episode 10	Recall 3	Wed, February 8, 2012	4.99 million	14.8%	3.11 million	23.0%
Episode 11	Recall 4	Sat Feb 11, 2012	5.35 million	16.7%	3.17 million	26.3%
Episode 12	Recall 5	Wed, February 15, 2012	5.31 million	15.8%	3.25 million	24.5%
Episode 13	Recall 6	Sat Feb 18, 2012	5.50 million	17.0%	3.29 million	27.1%
Episode 14	Recall 7	Wed, February 22, 2012	4.95 million	? %	3.15 million	23.8%
Episode 15	Top 16 show	Sat, Feb 25, 2012	5.40 million	17.6%	3.40 million	28.3%
Episode 16	Mottoshow 1	Sat, March 3, 2012	5.69 million	17.8%	3.36 million	27.9%
Episode 17	Mottoshow 2	Sat, March 10, 2012	4.86 million	15.4%	2.92 million	24.2%
Episode 18	Mottoshow 3	Sat, March 17, 2012	4.77 million	15.2%	2.88 million	25.1%
Episode 19	Mottoshow 4	Sat, March 24, 2012	4.69 million	15.2%	2.71 million	23.0%
Episode 20	Mottoshow 5	Sat, March 31, 2012	4.85 million	16.0%	2.59 million	23.3%
Episode 21	Mottoshow 6	Sat April 7, 2012	4.39 million	14.7%	? Million	23.0%
Episode 22	Mottoshow 7	Sat April 14, 2012	4.26 million	14.5%	? Million	21.9%
Episode 23	Semifinals	Sat April 21, 2012	? Million	15.5%	4.65 million	23.4%
Episode 24	final	Sat April 28, 2012		18.1%	4.71 million	28.3%
Source : quotemeter.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DSDS 2012: Luca Hänni is Superstar 2012 on RTL.de from April 28, 2012
2. ↑ DSDS 2012: Here are the official voting results , RTL.de
3. ↑ DSDS 2012: No second chance for Christian Schöne , RTL.de
4. ↑ quotas of the 9th season at Quotenmeter.de