Our song for Rotterdam

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Television broadcast
Original title Our song for Rotterdam
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 2020
Production
company
NDR
length 60 minutes
genre music
Director Ladislaus Kiraly
Moderation Barbara Schöneberger
First broadcast February 27, 2020 on One

Our song for Rotterdam was a 60-minute broadcast to present the German contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 . In contrast to similar sounding shows (e.g. Our Song for Israel ), the artist ( Ben Dolic ) with his title ( Violent Thing ) was already identified in December. The program was broadcast on the ARD specialty channel One and on the Internet as a recording from the afternoon.

content

Hamburg-HafenCity in the Astor Film Lounge in front of 70 invited guests, journalists and bloggers: First, Michael Schulte sings an acoustic version of his new title Keep Me Up . This is followed by a video with a hit parody in which Barbara Schöneberger explains the ESC area code singing. ARD entertainment coordinator Thomas Schreiber explains the problem of previous preliminary decisions, the callers there were different people compared to the actual song contest. Sky du Mont explains the new preliminary decision procedure in a video. ARD team boss Christian Blenker describes the gathering between artists and songs at the band camps. Alexandra Wolfslast as Head of Delegation is introduced.

The music video for Violent Thing by Ben Dolic will be premiered. This is followed by an interview with Dolic in which a test recording is shown. Peter Urban and Michael Schulte comment on the song and the competition. The composer of the title, Borislav Milanov , is introduced and interviewed. Finally, Ben Dolic sings an acoustic version of his title Violent Thing .

Individual evidence

  1. Our song for Rotterdam at programm.ard.de
  2. ESC 2020: Ben Dolic represents Germany - fans were right on suspicion - expert sounds the alarm at merkur.de