The Voice of Germany / Season 8

Season 8 of The Voice of Germany
Episodes	17th
Country of production	Germany
Manufacturing company	Talpa Germany
First broadcast	October 18, 2018 - December 16, 2018 on ProSieben and Sat.1
regularity	Thursdays and Sundays
occupation
Moderation	Thore Schölermann Lena Gercke
other contributors	Coaches Mark Forster Yvonne Catterfeld Michi Beck and Smudo Michael Patrick Kelly
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The eighth season of the singing talent show The Voice of Germany was broadcast on television from October 18 to December 16, 2018. Like the three previous seasons , it was moderated by Thore Schölermann and Lena Gercke . The jury included the jury duo Smudo and Michi Beck from the hip-hop band Die Fantastischen Vier , the singer and actress Yvonne Catterfeld , the singer and songwriter Mark Forster and, for the first time, the singer and songwriter Michael Patrick Kelly . The winner was Samuel Rösch from Michael Patrick Kelly's coaching group.

First phase: the blind auditions

In February and March 2018, open castings for the eighth season were held in several major German cities , but they are not shown on television. Around 150 applicants who had qualified in these “scoutings” received an invitation to the “blind auditions”. These were recorded from July 1 to 6, 2018 in the Adlershof studio in Berlin and broadcast in nine television programs from October 18 to November 15, 2018 on the TV channels ProSieben and Sat.1 . The jury selected 76 candidates - 37 women, 38 men and 1 trio - for the second phase, in which all four coaches with 19 participants each moved in.

The candidates Alessandro Rütten, Matthias Nebel, Coby Grant, Giuliano De Stefano, Jeanie Celina Schultheiß, Sascha Coles, Bernarda Brunovic, Judith Jandl, Fabian Riaz, Clifford Dwenger, Shireen Nikolic, Igor Quennehen, Guido Goh, Kaye-Ree received all four jury votes , Mark Agpas, Laura Neels, Juliane Götz, Mascha Winkels, Felicia Peters, Jélila Bouraoui, Debora Vater, Sinem Uraz and Dominik Hartz. Of these 23, 7 opted for Michi and Smudo, 6 for Michael Patrick Kelly, 6 for Mark Forster and 4 for Yvonne Catterfeld as coach.

episode	The coaches and their candidates
	Michael Patrick Kelly	Michi and Smudo	Yvonne Catterfeld	Mark Forster
01	Sümeyra Stahl Matthias Nebel Gaby Schwager	Alexander Eder Coby Grant	Nora Brandenburger	Alessandro Rütten
02	Monica Lewis-Schmidt Ludmila Larusso Samuel Rösch Bernarda Brunovic	Jeanie Celina Schultheiss	Giuliano De Stefano Sascha Coles	Misses Melaza
03	Fabian Riaz	Seda Acar Clifford Dwenger Eros Atomus Isler	James Smith Jr.	Judith Jandl Alexandre Heitz Melissa Muamba
04	Guido Goh	Igor Quennehen Steffen Frommberger Lia Joham	Shireen Nikolic Andreas Hauser	Johannes Holfeld Diana Babalola John Alexander Garner III
05	Philipp von Unold	Kathrin Eftekhari ("Kaye-Ree") Eun Chae Rhee	Benjamin Dolic	Kira Mesterheide Damiano Maiolini Mark Agpas
06	Laura Neels Liam Blaney	Sebastian Stipp Kinga Noémi Balla Mascha Winkels	Juliane Götz Linda Alkhodor Flavio Baltermia	Jessica Schaffler
07	Amanda Lena Jakucs Lena Rotermund Jélila Bouraoui	Felicia Peters Karina Klüber	Florian Alexander Kurz Abdullah Azad	Rahel Maas
08	Taylor Shore Maria Pasqua Casti	Fabrice Richter-Reichhelm	Chantal Dorn Luka Nozza Hugo Gonzalez Morales	Debora father Lars Kamphausen Sinem Uraz
09	Samuele Di Dio Mario Geckeler	Cem Kücük Malin Lewis	Doriane Kamdem Mabou Patrice Gerlach Mattis Laustroer Stefan Celar	Dominik Hartz Felicitas Mayer Penni Jo Blatterman
total	19th	19th	19th	19th

Second phase: the battle round

The Battle Round was recorded in Berlin from August 29th to 31st, 2018 and broadcast in four television programs from November 18th to 29th, 2018. In Mark Forster's group, 18 candidates fought nine one-on-one duels; his candidate Mark Agpas could not take part in the planned three-man battle for health reasons, but he received a wildcard for the future ninth season. In the other three groups, the 19 candidates fought eight one-on-one duels and one three-way battle. The respective coach selected a participant from each battle directly into the next phase. As in the third to seventh seasons, the other jurors could each take on an inferior battle candidate ( steal deal ), so that all four coaching groups with ten participants went into the next phase. For the first time a trio qualified for the third phase, as Mark Forster took Misses Melaza with him to the sing offs.

episode	Coach	Battle	Candidate directly elected	song	Inferior candidate		New coach of the losing candidate
10	Mark Forster	1	Alessandro Rütten	Dusk Till Dawn by Zayn feat. Sia	Judith Jandl		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	2	Giuliano De Stefano	Me and Mrs. Jones by Billy Paul	Chantal thorn		Michael Patrick Kelly
	Michael Patrick Kelly	3	Matthias Nebel	Spoonman from Soundgarden	Taylor Shore		-
	Mark Forster	4th	Rahel Maas	Freedom from Marius Müller-Westernhagen	Johannes Holfeld		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	5	Nora Brandenburger	One Last Time by Ariana Grande	Shireen Nikolic		-
	Michi and Smudo	6th	Alexander Eder	In the Ghetto by Elvis Presley	Karina Klüber		-
	Michael Patrick Kelly	7th	Bernarda Brunovic	Rolling in the Deep by Adele	Laura Neels		Mark Forster
11	Michi and Smudo	8th	Eun Chae Rhee	What You Waiting For? by Gwen Stefani	Kinga Noémi Balla		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	9	Flavio Baltermia	I'm Not the Only One by Sam Smith	Juliane Götz		-
	Mark Forster	10	Kira Mesterheide	Beat It by Michael Jackson	Debora father		-
	Michael Patrick Kelly	11	Liam Blaney	Down By the Sally Gardens by Loreena McKennitt	Gaby brother-in-law		-
	Michi and Smudo	12	Kaye-Ree	Tears Dry on Their Own by Amy Winehouse	Malin Lewis		Yvonne Catterfeld
	Mark Forster	13	Dominik Hartz	Everything is now from bosses	Lars Kamphausen		-
	Michael Patrick Kelly	14th	Maria Pasqua Casti	Whatever You Want by Pink	Amanda Lena Jakucs	Lena Rotermund	-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	15th	James Smith Jr.	Us from James Bay and Alicia Keys	Doriane Kamdem Mabou		-
	Michael Patrick Kelly	16	Monica Lewis-Schmidt	Happy by Pharrell Williams	Samuele Di Dio		-
	Mark Forster	17th	Jessica Schaffler	Yesterday by The Beatles	Penni Jo Blatterman		-
12	Michi and Smudo	18th	Eros Atomus Isler	Riptide by Vance Joy	Steffen Frommberger		-
	Mark Forster	19th	Diana Babalola	Genius of LSD	John Alexander Garner III		-
	Michael Patrick Kelly	20th	Ludmila Larusso	Perfect Symphony by Ed Sheeran and Andrea Bocelli	Philipp von Unold		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	21st	Linda Alkhodor	Nobody's Perfect by Jessie J	Abdullah Azad		-
	Michi and Smudo	22nd	Clifford Dwenger	Firebreather by Macklemore feat. Reignwolf	Igor Quennehen	Felicia Peters	-
	Mark Forster	23	Felicitas Mayer	Under my skin from Elif	Sinem uraz		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	24	Benjamin Dolic	Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake	Stefan Celar		-
	Michael Patrick Kelly	25th	Guido Goh	In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins	Jélila Bouraoui		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	26th	Andreas Hauser	Black to Blue by Peter Fox	Sascha Coles		Michi and Smudo
13	Michi and Smudo	27	Lia Joham	Ex's & Oh's from Elle King	Mascha Winkels		-
	Mark Forster	28	Damiano Maiolini	Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush	Melissa Muamba		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	29	Hugo Gonzalez Morales	Take Me to Church by Hozier	Luka Nozza		-
	Michael Patrick Kelly	30th	Samuel Rösch	Still from Jupiter Jones	Fabian Riaz		-
	Michi and Smudo	31	Jeanie Celina Schultheiss	Milkshake from Kelis	Seda Acar		-
	Yvonne Catterfeld	32	Patrice Gerlach	I don't want to go home from Johannes Oerding yet	Florian Alexander Kurz	Mattis Laustroer	-
	Michi and Smudo	33	Coby Grant	Something Just Like This from The Chainsmokers and Coldplay	Cem Kücük		-
	Michael Patrick Kelly	34	Sümeyra steel	Youngblood from 5 Seconds of Summer	Mario Geckeler		-
	Michi and Smudo	35	Fabrice Richter-Reichhelm	Cello by Udo Lindenberg	Sebastian Stipp		-
	Mark Forster	36	Misses Melaza	La cintura by Álvaro Soler	Alexandre Heitz		-

The coaches and their candidates after the battles
Michael Patrick Kelly	Michi and Smudo	Yvonne Catterfeld	Mark Forster
Chantal Dorn Matthias Nebel Bernarda Brunovic Liam Blaney Maria Pasqua Casti Monica Lewis-Schmidt Ludmila Larusso Guido Goh Samuel Rösch Sümeyra Stahl	Alexander Eder Eun Chae Rhee Kaye-Ree Eros Atomus Isler Clifford Dwenger Sascha Coles Lia Joham Jeanie Celina Schultheiss Coby Grant Fabrice Richter-Reichhelm	Giuliano De Stefano Nora Brandenburger Flavio Baltermia Malin Lewis James Smith Jr. Linda Alkhodor Benjamin Dolic Andreas Hauser Hugo Gonzalez Morales Patrice Gerlach	Alessandro Rütten Rahel Maas Kira Mesterheide Laura Neels Dominik Hartz Jessica Schaffler Diana Babalola Felicitas Mayer Damiano Maiolini Misses Melaza
10 (9 + 1)	10 (9 + 1)	10 (9 + 1)	10 (9 + 1)

Third phase: Sing Off

The third phase, as called "Sing Off" in seasons 6 and 7, was recorded on September 27 and 28, 2018 in Berlin and broadcast in two television programs on December 2 and 6, 2018. In the preparation, Michi's and Smudo's candidates were supported by Jess Glynne , Mark Forster's participants by Dua Lipa , Michael Patrick Kelly's candidates by Olly Murs and Yvonne Catterfeld's protégés by Josh Groban . In Sing Off, each of the 40 remaining participants performed a song; each coach selected three of his ten candidates for the live show phase. Of the twelve live show participants, four had received all four jury votes in the blind auditions, namely Coby Grant, Clifford Dwenger, Matthias Nebel and Bernarda Brunovic.

episode	Coach	Appearance	candidate	song
14th	Michi and Smudo	1	Lia Joham	Believer from Imagine Dragons
		2	Alexander Eder	Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash
		3	Kaye-Ree	Grenade by Bruno Mars
		4th	Fabrice Richter-Reichhelm	Not an inch from Clueso
		5	Eun Chae Rhee	Toxic by Britney Spears
		6th	Eros Atomus Isler	Roxanne from The Police
		7th	Jeanie Celina Schultheiss	Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera
		8th	Sascha Coles	Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park
		9	Coby Grant	I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) by Whitney Houston
		10	Clifford Dwenger	Niggas in Paris by Jay-Z and Kanye West
	Mark Forster	11	Alessandro Rütten	Hotter Than Hell by Dua Lipa
		12	Kira Mesterheide	Jealous from Labrinth
		13	Dominik Hartz	Bye bye from Cro
		14th	Jessica Schaffler	Human by Christina Perri
		15th	Laura Neels	Don't Leave Me Alone by David Guetta feat. Annemarie
		16	Rahel Maas	To you from LEA
		17th	Damiano Maiolini	She Said from Plan B
		18th	Diana Babalola	Nutbush City Limits by Ike & Tina Turner
		19th	Felicitas Mayer	If I Wasn't Your Daughter by Lena
		20th	Misses Melaza	Despacito by Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee
15th	Michael Patrick Kelly	21st	Guido Goh	With or Without You by U2
		22nd	Maria Pasqua Casti	Happy Now from Zedd and Elley Duhé
		23	Monica Lewis-Schmidt	Ain't Nobody by Rufus and Chaka Khan
		24	Liam Blaney	Shotgun from George Ezra
		25th	Ludmila Larusso	Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen
		26th	Samuel Rösch	In other ways by Andreas Bourani
		27	Sümeyra steel	No Roots by Alice Merton
		28	Matthias Nebel	Breakeven from The Script
		29	Chantal thorn	Lovesong by The Cure
		30th	Bernarda Brunovic	Lady Marmalade by Patti LaBelle
	Yvonne Catterfeld	31	Giuliano De Stefano	It's a Man's Man's Man's World by James Brown
		32	Patrice Gerlach	Bubbly by Colbie Caillat
		33	Linda Alkhodor	Tell Me You Love Me by Demi Lovato
		34	James Smith Jr.	Earned It from The Weeknd
		35	Flavio Baltermia	I'm All Over It by Jamie Cullum
		36	Malin Lewis	Brand New Me by Alicia Keys
		37	Andreas Hauser	Summer Is a Curse by The Faim
		38	Benjamin Dolic	Stay by Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko
		39	Hugo Gonzalez Morales	XO from Beyoncé
		40	Nora Brandenburger	When We Were Young by Adele

Fourth phase: the live shows

As in seasons 6 and 7, there were two live broadcasts on December 9 and 16, 2018 in Berlin. As in seasons 5, 6 and 7, the coaches did not distribute percentage points, but all decisions were made by televoting by the audience.

First live show (semifinals)

In the first live show on December 9, 2018, four of the twelve candidates advanced: In each coaching group, the three participants played a song one after the other, after which the viewers televoted one of them to the final. All four finalists had only received two jury votes in the blind auditions.

Rita Ora performed her current song Let You Love Me with the twelve candidates .

Coach	Appearance	candidate	song	Televoting
Mark Forster	1	Diana Babalola	Crazy from Aerosmith	16.7%
	2	Rahel Maas	Nice enough of Lina Maly	27.2%
	3	Jessica Schaffler	Head Above Water by Avril Lavigne	56.1%
Michi and Smudo	4th	Eros Atomus Isler	Another Love by Tom Odell	37.6%
	5	Clifford Dwenger	California Love by 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman	31.0%
	6th	Coby Grant	Let It Go by James Bay	31.4%
Yvonne Catterfeld	7th	James Smith Jr.	Summer Love by Justin Timberlake	09.9%
	8th	Linda Alkhodor	Scars to Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara	31.6%
	9	Benjamin Dolic	Can't Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley	58.5%
Michael Patrick Kelly	10	Matthias Nebel	Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus	19.8%
	11	Samuel Rösch	The way of Herbert Grönemeyer	47.0%
	12	Bernarda Brunovic	Free Your Mind from En Vogue	33.2%

Second live show (final)

The second live show, the finale, took place on December 16, 2018. Each participant in the final performed a song, sang a duet with his coach and another duet with a guest artist: Jessica Schaffler sang with Tom Odell , Benjamin Dolic with Zara Larsson , Samuel Rösch with Lukas Graham , Eros Atomus Isler with Jess Glynne . At the beginning of the show, Olly Murs sang a medley of his hits with the four candidates. Later in the show Herbert Grönemeyer performed his current song Mein Lebensstrahl .

Samuel Rösch was chosen as the winner; in the televoting vote on the four candidates , he received a result of almost 55 percent.

rank	Coach	candidate	Songs		Televoting
1	Michael Patrick Kelly	Samuel Rösch	Cover version	At this moment from Roger Cicero	54.89%
			Duet with coach	To us from Andreas Bourani
			Duet with guest artist	Love Someone by Lukas Graham
2	Yvonne Catterfeld	Benjamin Dolic	Cover version	She's Out of My Life by Michael Jackson	16.60%
			Duet with coach	Creep from Radiohead
			Duet with guest artist	Ruin My Life by Zara Larsson
3	Mark Forster	Jessica Schaffler	Cover version	A Million Dreams by Pink	14.99%
			Duet with coach	Once from Mark Forster
			Duet with guest artist	Half As Good As You by Tom Odell
4th	Michi and Smudo	Eros Atomus Isler	Cover version	Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra	13.52%
			Duet with coach	Together by Die Fantastischen Vier featuring Clueso
			Duet with guest artist	Thursday by Jess Glynne

Digital marketing

At the beginning of this season, ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland announced that it would significantly expand its digital offering. For example, previews of some appearances, acoustic versions or short videos about candidates were published on the program homepage , as well as making-ofs in which the coaches were accompanied during the shooting. After each shipment a was podcast episode published in which the Galileo presenter Maurice Gajda along with Jamie Lee Kriewitz that The Voice of Germany -Gewinnerin of Season 5 , and Jan van der Toorn, a Dutch music producer, talked about the performances .

In the social media area we used the known communication platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The casting show's YouTube channel had over 21 million views in the last 30 days (as of December 18, 2018), the most-watched video of this season was Matthias Nebel's appearance in the blind auditions, which was over 6 million times by the time of the finale was viewed. Also Influencer Marketing produced a large range of the talent show, as published especially the moderators, coaches and their candidates postings and videos. In particular, the interactions with the casting show enabled the ProSieben broadcaster to grow by 36 percent, so that it reached 10th place in the social media ranking in the calendar month of November 2018.

Audience ratings

episode	broadcast	Channel	date	spectator		Market share		source
				total	14 to 49 years	total	14 to 49 years
01	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Oct. 18, 2018	3.23 million	1.88 million	11.3%	20.4%
02	Blind auditions	Sat 1	Sun, Oct. 21, 2018	3.52 million	1.98 million	11.0%	18.3%
03	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Oct 25, 2018	3.24 million	1.83 million	11.1%	19.3%
04	Blind auditions	Sat 1	Sun, Oct. 28, 2018	3.35 million	1.86 million	10.3%	16.9%
05	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Nov. 1, 2018 0	3.70 million	2.08 million	12.2%	21.6%
06	Blind auditions	Sat 1	Sun, Nov. 4, 2018 0	3.46 million	1.97 million	11.0%	18.3%
07	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Nov 8, 2018 0	3.28 million	1.94 million	11.5%	21.0%
08	Blind auditions	Sat 1	Sun, Nov 11, 2018	3.07 million	1.66 million	9.8%	15.8%
09	Blind auditions	ProSieben	Thu, Nov. 15, 2018	2.95 million	1.77 million	10.7%	20.2%
10	Battle Round	Sat 1	Sun, Nov 18, 2018	2.97 million	1.65 million	9.2%	15.2%
11	Battle Round	ProSieben	Thu, Nov 22, 2018	2.51 million	1.47 million	9.0%	16.4%
12	Battle Round	Sat 1	Sun, Nov 25, 2018	2.47 million	1.34 million	7.7%	12.2%
13	Battle Round	ProSieben	Thu, Nov 29, 2018	2.59 million	1.35 million	9.8%	16.3%
14th	Sing off	Sat 1	Sun, Dec. 2, 2018 0	2.19 million	1.14 million	7.3%	10.9%
15th	Sing off	ProSieben	Thu, Dec 6, 2018 0	2.49 million	1.32 million	9.4%	15.8%
16	Live show	Sat 1	Sun, Dec 9, 2018 0	2.37 million	1.15 million	7.8%	11.6%
17th	Live show	Sat 1	Sun, Dec 16, 2018	2.54 million	1.17 million	8.6%	11.6%

Web links

• The Voice of Germany website
• The Voice of Germany on fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

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