Germany is dancing

Television series
Original title	Germany is dancing
Country of production	Germany
year	2016
Production company	Seapoint
length	approx. 240 minutes
Episodes	3 in 1 season
Broadcasting cycle	Saturdays at 8:15 p.m.
genre	Dance show
Theme music	What I Did for Love - David Guetta
Moderation	Lena Gercke Ingmar Stadelmann
First broadcast	November 12, 2016 on ProSieben

Deutschland tanzt was a German dance show on the TV channel ProSieben , which was broadcast in three episodes on Saturdays in November 2016. The live shows were moderated by Lena Gercke and Ingmar Stadelmann . The show was named by ProSieben as the first “dance competition of the federal states” and was reminiscent of the Bundesvision Song Contests of the same station.

The winner was the deaf dancer Kassandra Wedel ( Bavaria ) ahead of Oliver Pocher ( Lower Saxony ) and Fernanda Brandão ( Hamburg ).

concept

16 celebrities (mostly B and C celebrities ) competed for their state in the first show and showed a dance performance. After the subsequent voting , each federal state chose its favorites. The twelve best advanced one round. In the final, Germany chose its winner from the six best dancers. The live shows were broadcast from November 11th to November 26th, 2016. Nikeata Thompson and Roman Frieling were experts in the show and Ingmar Stadelmann reported as co-moderator from the dancer lounge. In contrast to comparable shows, the original songs were danced.

Candidates

space	state	candidate	1	2	3	O
1.	Bavaria	Kassandra Wedel	141	172	168	160.33
2.	Lower Saxony	Oliver Pocher	154	132	160	148.67
3.	Hamburg	Fernanda Brandão	70	133	112	105
4th	Hesse	Taynara Wolf	42	112	108	87.33
5.	Berlin	Avelina Boateng	100	88	72	86.67
6th	Baden-Württemberg	Magdalena Brzeska and daughter Noemi	114	67	20th	67
7th	Thuringia	Janin Ullmann	74	52	-	63
8th.	Brandenburg	Friedrich Liechtenstein	63	51	-	57
9.	Schleswig-Holstein	Peer Kusmagk and Janni Hönscheid	19th	42	-	30.5
10.	Bremen	Yared Dibaba	49	41	-	45
11.	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Wolfgang Lippert	28	24	-	26th
12.	Rhineland-Palatinate	Nils Brunkhorst	21st	14th	-	17.5
13.	Saxony	Xenia Princess of Saxony	15th	-		15th
14th	North Rhine-Westphalia	Shermine Shahrivar	14th	-		14th
15th	Saarland	Elisabeth Brück	12	-		12
15th	Saxony-Anhalt	Jan Kralitschka	12	-		12

Dances

First show

Before each performance, there was a clip in which the candidates could introduce their hometown and state. They competed in the following order:

1. Taynara Wolf danced samba in a carnival in Rio costume, first with various drummers, later to the song Can't Hold Us by Macklemore
2. Nils Brunkhorst danced a contemporary with Tiger Kirchharz to the song 1.40m by Prinz Pi
3. Fernanda Brandão visited her old dance teacher Mona Brandenburg in the single player , after which she danced Salsa to Fireball with an unnamed man.
4. Jan Kralitschka danced tango with two women
5. Magdalena Brzeska danced a contemporary to Seven Years Old by Lukas Graham with her daughter Noemi Peschel (14)
6. Wolfgang Lippert danced hip-hop to (We'll do that) clearly from Jan Delay
7. Shermine Shahrivar danced a samba to She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5
8. Elisabeth bridge danced a tango to GoldenEye by Tina Turner
9. Kassandra Wedel danced hip hop to End Of Time by Beyoncé
10. Friedrich Lichtenstein danced an electric slide to Be Thankful for What You Got by William DeVaughn
11. Xenia von Sachsen presented a mix of minuet and hip-hop to Dark Horse by Katy Perry
12. Yared Dibaba danced his own choreography to Feeling Good by Michael Bublé
13. Avelina Boateng danced in sync with a partner she could not see to the song Freiheit von den Mannheims
14. Janin Ullmann presented a performance on Castle by Halsey
15. Janni Hönscheid and Peer Kusmagk danced a quickstep to I'm So Excited by The Pointer Sisters
16. Oliver Pocher, disguised as Donald Trump , danced hip hop to Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars as the centerpiece of a boy group

Semifinals

1. Janin Ullmann danced Hip Hop to Bang Bang by Jessie J & Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj
2. Niels Brunkhorst danced with Alisia Cha Cha Cha to Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke & TI & Pharrell Williams .
3. Avelina Boateng danced Hip Hop to Sax von Fleur East
4. Fernanda Brandão offered a pole dancing to Purple Rain by Prince
5. Wolfgang Lippert danced waltzes with Siret Siilak to You Know Me by Robbie Williams
6. Magdalena Breszka and Noemi Peschel danced modern dance mixed with rhythmic gymnastics to Feel Again by OneRepublic
7. Janni Hönscheid and peer Kusmagk danced Contemporary to I know nothing of Xavier Naidoo
8. Yared Dibaba danced Lindy Hop with Claire Chen to Jackpot by Teesy feat. Cro
9. Taynara Wolf danced Contemporary to Human by Rag 'n' Bone Man
10. Kassandra Wedel offered a dance performance with sign language to Hallelujah by Pentatonix
11. Friedrich Liechtenstein danced in a bast skirt to Fade Out Lines by Phoebe Killdeer and The Short Straws
12. Oliver Pocher was looked after by the choreographer Sarah Hammerschmidt and danced various scenes from the world of work to the song Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce

final

For the finale, the last six candidates were asked to prepare a standard dance and a free-style performance. The German songwriter Max Giesinger made a guest appearance with his single When she tanzt .

1. Kassandra Wedel started the show. She presented, supervised by the choreographer Violetta Kromer, a dance performance to We Found Love by Rihanna , which ended in a water basin. She later danced the tango to Santa Maria from Gotan Project .
2. Fernanda Brandão began with a Paso Doble to the classic España cañí (also known as Spanish Gypsy Dance ) by Pascual Marquina Narro . For her second appearance, she chose Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson , where she was also inspired by Jackson's dance video.
3. Taynara Wolf mixed her dance performance to Still Falling for You by Ellie Goulding with acrobatic interludes hanging from two towels - a so-called aerial dance (cf. w: Aerial dance ). Later she danced Cha Cha Cha with Andrzej Cibis to Can't Stop the Feeling! by Justin Timberlake .
4. Magdalena Brzeska and Noemi Peschel mixed breakdance and ballet to Torn by Nathan Lanier in their first appearance . Later, mother and daughter danced a Rumba to Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran .
5. Oliver Pocher danced Cha Cha Cha to The Greatest of Sia on his first appearance after he had stepped down from a chandelier. On his second appearance he was the focus of a five-piece boy group that danced to a medley of the most famous songs from this genre , i.e. Everybody by the Backstreet Boys , Back For Good by Take That , It's Alright by East 17 , Step By Step by New Kids on the Block and Bye Bye Bye from * NSYNC .
6. Avelina Boateng started with a contemporary (freestyle) with plenty of color to Rise Up by Andra Day . As the second and last dance of the evening dance, she presented a jive to Proud Mary by Tina Turner .

reception

Reviews

• Robert Meyer from the industry servicequotemeter.de was impressed by the production quality of the program. However, due to the participation of laypeople, it lacks the competitive character.
• The critic of the Süddeutsche Zeitung disliked a few things about the first episode: presenter Lena Gercke looked “sedated”, presenter Stadelmann lost himself in “ men's joke ”, 240 minutes for an episode seemed too long, etc. She didn't like the fact that he was Donald Trump disguised Oliver Pocher again had defeated the main female competitor on points.
• Due to an audience rate of 8.3% among the advertising-relevant target group, the Internet magazine DWDL.de spoke of a “completely screwed start” after the first broadcast on November 12, 2016.
• The Focus praised the semi-finals on 19 November and concluded: "Here, the ProSieben offshoot makes things a lot better than all the barely distinguishable RTL formats with" Dance "in the name. As it is structurally strongly based on the “Bundesvision Song Contest”, it retains the portion of fun and snottiness that ProSieben legend Stefan Raab injected into all of his show ideas. And by declaring the dance competition to be a championship of the federal states, the show also receives an identification factor for the audience. "

Audience ratings

output	date	Spectators (total)	Spectators (14 to 49 years old)	Market share (total)	Market share (14 to 49 years)	source
1	Nov 12, 2016	1.27 million	0.73 million	5.0%	8.3%
2	Nov 19, 2016	1.10 million	0.68 million	4.0%	7.1%
3	Nov 26, 2016	0.91 million	0.59 million	3.4%	7.1%

Web links

• Germany dances at ProSieben
• Germany is dancing in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sidney Schering: "Deutschland tanzt" gets countdown magazine. In : quotemeter.de. October 21, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Kassandra beats Pocher and wins
3. ↑ Manuel Weis: ProSieben dance show becomes Saturday event. In : quotemeter.de. September 30, 2016, accessed November 12, 2016 . 
4. ^ Friedrich Liechtenstein: Tutorial Electric Slide
5. ^ Robert Meyer: "Germany dances": Bundesvision Dance Contest? In : quotemeter.de. November 13, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Ruth Schneeberger Make Oliver Pocher great again
7. ↑ ^{a b} Marcel Pohlig: "Germany dances" with a completely screwed start. In: DWDL.de. November 13, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Florian Reiter: Gaga dances and Pocher performance: ProSieben shows RTL how to do it right. Focus. November 20, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
9. ↑ David Grzeschik: "Germany dances" loses in week two. In : quotemeter.de. November 20, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Robert Meyer: “Germany dances” falls behind “The Advent Festival of 100,000 Lights” in the target group. In : quotemeter.de. November 27, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016 .