Germany's Next Top Model / Season 8

Season 8 of Germany's Next Top Model
Episodes	15th
Country of production	Germany
Manufacturing company	RedSeven Entertainment
Theme music	will.i.am feat. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout
First broadcast	February 28, 2013 - June 2, 2013 on ProSieben
regularity	Thursdays
occupation
other contributors	jury Heidi Klum Thomas Hayo Enrique Badulescu
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Lovelyn Enebechi (2016), season 8 winner

The eighth season of the German talent show Germany’s Next Topmodel was broadcast between February 28 and June 2, 2013 on the private broadcaster ProSieben . Lovelyn Enebechi was chosen as the winner, Maike van Grieken was second ahead of Luise Will and Sabrina Elsner.

Overview

In the finale of the seventh season, the jury members announced an eighth season of the show. The new production company was RedSeven Entertainment , which already produced Austria's Next Top Model . In addition to declining ratings, it was assumed that the reason for the change was that the previous production company Tresor TV was also responsible for the production of the competing program The Perfect Model on VOX . ProSieben started the total of 14 episodes on February 28, 2013. The season was presented and promoted under the motto “Closer than ever”. The eighth season theme song was the number one hit Scream & Shout by will.i.am feat. Britney Spears . The photographer Enrique Badulescu took over the jury position of Thomas Rath , who was unable to attend , and who took part in the fifth episode when the candidates appeared in his collection.

Almost 15,500 applicants appeared in 23 cities for the auditions. The jurors Heidi Klum and Thomas Hayo used images and videos to select 25 applicants, who had to have a “market-required” minimum height of 1.76 m (previously 1.72 m) as a new criterion. The candidates were surprised with the news by Klum or Hayo personally during work or leisure activities; after Betty Taube canceled because of her high school diploma (which later became known), a classmate of another selected person was spontaneously invited by Klum to participate. In the first episode there was a shoot for the 25 young women in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden , after which a candidate had to retire. The other participants flew to Dubai , where they ran at a fashion show . Then one participant dropped out voluntarily, three others dropped out after the jury's decision. Shootings in Dubai followed in the second episode, after which two more top model aspirants had to leave the show. The third episode was supposed to start with the remaining 18 candidates in Los Angeles, but again one participant gave up and another received no visa for the USA because of her Chinese citizenship. In the fifth episode, fashion films were shot, directed by Jonas Åkerlund and Peter Stormare assisted the candidates as a film partner .

After 2012 there was a final with four title contenders for the second time. It took place for the first time in the Mannheim SAP Arena , as the previous venue, the Cologne Lanxess Arena , was fully booked. After performances by Psy , Robin Thicke and Bruno Mars , Lovelyn Enebechi was declared the winner. Like other participants in the show, she was under contract with Günther Klum's model agency ONEeins . She graduated from high school and took on several modeling jobs, for example for the fashion designer Anne Görtz and Breuninger .

Participants

Season 8 finalists *
Participant	space	Age	place of residence	size	job
Lovelyn Enebechi	1	16	Hamburg	178 cm	pupil
Maike van Grieken	2	19th	Emden	176 cm	Trainee (nurse)
Luise Will	3	18th	Rostock	183 cm	Trainee (nurse)
Sabrina Elsner	4th	21st	Gägelow star mug	177 cm	Nurse
Finalists of the 8th season *
Participant	space	Age	place of residence	size	job
Anna Maria Damm	5	16	Neuenbürg	176 cm	pupil
Marie Czuczman	6th	16	Ludenscheid	183 cm	pupil
Christine Gischler	7th	16	eat	179 cm	pupil
Carolin Sünderhauf	8th	20th	Munich	178 cm	Student (German Studies / Ancient and Orient)
Leonie Marwitz	9	16	Prien am Chiemsee	176 cm	pupil
Jacqueline Thießen	10	17th	Hamburg	176 cm	pupil
Veronika Weddeling	11	23	Bark	179 cm	Intern
Janna Wiese	12	19th	Schortens	176 cm	High school graduate
Jessika Weidner	13	16	Au on the Rhine	178 cm	pupil
Anna-Barbara Seebrecht	14th	17th	Prien am Chiemsee	176 cm	pupil
Sophie **	15th	23	Munich	176 cm	Student (psychology)
Leandra Martin	16	18th	Wurzburg	182 cm	pupil
Bingyang Liu ***	17th	18th	Cologne	180 cm	Student (music)
Höpke Voss **		19th	Altenholz	176 cm	(Preparation for stay abroad in New Zealand)
Michelle Maas	19th	16	Sotzweiler	180 cm	pupil
Lisa-Giulia Wende	20th	17th	Hamburg	176 cm	pupil
* Status of the information on the participants: start of the relay
** Dropped out voluntarily
*** No US visa received

Audience ratings

consequences	Period	Time slot	spectator		Market share		source
			Average	14 - 49 years	Average	14 - 49 years
15th	February 28 - June 2, 2013	Thursday, 8:15 p.m.	2.65 million	1.85 million	8.9%	16.2%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Top Model": ProSieben changes production company DWDL.de from June 6, 2012
2. ↑ New season: Heidi's model show returns . 17th January 2013.
3. ↑ The new season of Germany's next top model starts on February 28th! . In: prosieben.de . ProSieben . Retrieved February 7, 2013.
4. ^ Betty Taube: Your life after GNTM 2014. In: jolie.de. Retrieved November 20, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Drama, baby! No top model final in Cologne express.de from March 1, 2013
6. ↑ That's what 'GNTM' winner Lovelyn Ebenechi does today , vox.de , March 15, 2017
7. ↑ Höpke does not want to be a top model ( memento of the original from March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kn-online.de from March 15, 2013 
8. ↑ GNTM 2013: That is why Sophie got out ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. top.de from April 2, 2013  
9. ↑ No visa! Bingyang is out on Heidi express.de on March 14, 2013
10. ↑ Quota check: “Germany's Next Top Model”. May 31, 2013, accessed July 3, 2013 .