Germany's Next Top Model / Season 1

Season 1 of Germany's Next Top Model
Episodes	10
Country of production	Germany
Manufacturing company	Safe TV
Theme music	The Notorious BIG - Nasty Girl
First broadcast	January 25, 2006 - March 29, 2006 on ProSieben
regularity	Wednesdays
occupation
other contributors	jury Heidi Klum Peyman Amin Bruce Darnell Armin Morbach
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Lena Gercke (2011), winner of the first season

The first season of the German casting show Germany’s Next Topmodel was broadcast from January 25, 2006 to March 29, 2006 on the private broadcaster ProSieben . Lena Gercke was chosen as the winner, Yvonne Schröder came in second ahead of Jennifer Wanderer.

overview

The last four participants of the first season at CeBIT 2006: Yvonne Schröder, Janina Ortmann, Jennifer Wanderer and Lena Gercke (from left to right)

The jury of the first season, which started on January 25, 2006, consisted of Heidi Klum , hairdresser and make-up artist Armin Morbach, Booker Peyman Amin and the American choreographer and catwalk trainer Bruce Darnell . In addition to the permanent jury, the participants were also judged by guest jurors such as model Marcus Schenkenberg , designer Jette Joop and actor Erol Sander .

From a total of 11,637 applicants, the show began with 32 preselected candidates, twelve of whom advanced in the first episode. Lena Gercke was chosen as the winner, Yvonne Schröder came in second ahead of Jennifer Wanderer. Celine Roscheck , who was elected Miss Austria in 2002 , voluntarily gave up in episode 3. The winner Lena Gercke received a small car and a contract with Face Your Brand! , in which it is agreed that she works for the modeling agency IMG Models and appears on the cover of Cosmopolitan in the June 2006 issue. Gercke moderated the first 4 seasons of Austria's Next Topmodel at Puls 4 from 2009 to 2012 .

In contrast to the first nine episodes, the finale was not filmed until the afternoon of the day of the broadcast in a studio with invited guests as a summary with retrospectives. Between the recordings, the last three remaining candidates had to cope with a few more tasks.

Participants

Finalists of the 1st season *
Participant	space	Age	place of residence	size
Lena Gercke	1	17th	Cloppenburg	178 cm
Yvonne Schröder	2	17th	Frankfurt am Main	174 cm
Jennifer Wanderer	3	17th	Wirsberg	178 cm
Finalists of the 1st season *
Participant	space	Age	place of residence	size
Janina Ortmann	4th	20th	Corfu	173 cm
Lena Meier	5	20th	Schnaittach	180 cm
Charlotte Offeney		18th	Hanover	183 cm
Luise Mikulla	7th	16	Potsdam	175 cm
Micaela Schäfer	8th	22nd	Berlin	175 cm
Rahel Kruger	9	20th	Preetz	170 cm
Celine Roscheck **	10	22nd	Vienna	182 cm
Andrea Lichtenberg	11	19th	Bergisch Gladbach	178 cm
Anne Mühlmeier		17th	Stuttgart	175 cm
* Status of the information on the participants: start of the relay
** Dropped out voluntarily

resonance

The show hit the headlines in February 2006 when a participant in the show had to leave the competition because, according to a judge, she was too fat. The CDU politician Gitta Connemann accused ProSieben of providing a dangerous role model for girls in puberty . An open letter from the participants (with the exception of Celine Roscheck) then appeared in various newspapers (e.g. in the FAZ as a full-page color advertisement) on February 8 , in which the majority emphasized that none of them were starving and that the jurors had not invented the rules .

Audience ratings

The first season was a success for the station ProSieben, the finale again achieved a significant increase in the rate.

consequences	Period	Time slot	spectator		Market share		source
			Average	14 - 49 years	Average	14 - 49 years
10	January 25 - March 29, 2006	Wednesday, 8:15 p.m.	3.02 million	2.29 million	8.9%	16.2%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile: Data of the participants of the first season ( Memento from November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), ProSieben.de (in the Wayback Machine, as of November 2007)
2. ↑ Alwin Schröder: Slimness delusion: CDU woman calls Klum's model show degrading. In: Spiegel Online . February 1, 2006, accessed January 23, 2016 . 
3. ↑ "No, Heidi Klum, I didn't have a great time"
4. ↑ Germany's Next Top Model: The Revenge of the Supermodels. In: Stern.de . February 8, 2006, accessed January 23, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Violetta Simon: Germany's Next Top Model - group photo in underwear. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed January 23, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Uwe Mantel: Top ratings for top models: Final of the casting show achieves record ratings . DWDL.de (Düsseldorf: DWDL Online Medien GbR, March 30, 2006).
7. ↑ Quota check: “Germany's Next Top Model”. May 31, 2013, accessed July 3, 2013 .