Our song for Austria

Our song for Austria
Preliminary decision data
country	Germany
place	Hamburg , Große Freiheit 36 (club concert) Hanover , TUI-Arena
date	5th March 2015
Time	8:15 p.m., 10:00 p.m. (club concert)
Number of participants	8, 10 (club concert)
Preliminary rounds	1 (club concert)
poll	100% televoting
Pause filler	Mark Forster (also club concert) , Conchita Wurst , Stefanie Heinzmann
Moderation
Barbara Schöneberger Janin Reinhardt ( Green Room )

The German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 took place on March 5, 2015 under the title Our Song for Austria , in which the artist and the song for the competition taking place on May 23, 2015 in Vienna , Austria , were sought. Andreas Kümmert with his song Heart of Stone was chosen as the winner . However, he refrained from participating in the ESC in May, so that the runner-up Ann Sophie moved up with her song Black Smoke and represented Germany. As in the previous year, the show was moderated by Barbara Schöneberger .

format

concept

The concept of the show was the same as in the previous year: the eight German artists performing in front of an audience were rated exclusively by the audience. Seven pre-selected participants were announced on January 14, 2015. The song titles were released on February 4th. The eighth participant was determined during a club concert.

poll

The voting went as it did in 2014: There were a total of three voting rounds in which the viewers voted for their favorites by televoting. In the first round, all eight candidates sang a song. The audience then decided which four artists would make it to the next round. In this, the remaining candidates presented a second piece so that the audience could choose their favorite song in the second voting round. In the decisive third round, the two candidates with the most votes appeared again. The winner of Unser Song for Austria was chosen from them in the last voting round .

Club concert

Again, the selection of an artist was decided by a wildcard : both solo artists and bands were able to upload videos to YouTube up to and including January 8, 2015, 12 noon , in which they perform either their own composition or a cover version of a song. By then, a total of 1270 entries had been received. To participate cried Andreas Bourani , Mark Forster and Elaiza , last year's winners of the wild card and German representatives at ESC 2014 , on. Representatives of the NDR , the production company Brainpool , the young radio stations and pop waves of the ARD as well as the labels Universal , Sony , Warner and some independent labels evaluated the received performances and decided on ten candidates who will be presented on February 19, 2015 in the music club Große Freiheit 36 performed in Hamburg . This club concert was broadcast on NDR television and on various platforms on the Internet. The viewer determined the winner of the wildcard via televoting.

Mark Forster made an appearance on the stage. During the performances (as in the previous year) the artists were accompanied by a live band.

Ann Sophie won the concert .

Attendees

Participant in the preliminary decision

Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	photos
Fahrhaidt	Frozen Silence M / T: Andreas John , Erik Macholl , Amanda Pedersen	English
	Mother Earth M / T: Andreas John, Erik Macholl, Alexander Freund, Fiora Cutler
faun	Do you hear the drums M: Ingo Politz , Bernd Wendlandt, Faun ; T: Ingo Politz	German
	Farewell M: Ingo Politz, Bernd Wendlandt, Faun; T: Oliver Pade, Michael Frewert
Alexa Feser	Glück M / T: Steve van Velvet, Alexa Feser	German
	Tomorrow's gold M / T: Steve van Velvet, Alexa Feser
Mrs. Greenbird	Shine Shine Shine M / T: Chris Buseck, Sarah Nücken , Steffen Brückner	English
	Take My Hand M / T: Sarah Nücken, Steffen Brückner
Andreas cares	Home Is in My Hands M / T: Andreas Kümmert , Christian Neander	English
	Heart of Stone M / T: Andreas Kümmert, Christian Neander
Laing	Show your muscles M: Nicola Rost , Michael Vajna ; T: Nicola Rost	German
	Changes the lighting M: Nicola Rost, Moritz Friedrich; T: Nicola Rost
Noize generation	A Song for You (feat.Patrik Jean) M / T: Linnea Deb, Joyce Leong, Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad	English
	Crazy Now M / T: Axel Ehnström , Jewgeni Grischbowski
Ann Sophie (Wildcard)	Jump the Gun M / T: Beatgees , Katrina Noorbergen , Laila Samuels	English
	Black Smoke M / T: Michael Harwood, Ella McMahon , Tonino Speciale

1. ↑ Singing by Amanda Pedersen
2. ↑ Singing by Patrik Jean

Result of the preliminary decision

First round

In the first round, all eight participants competed with their own song. The four candidates with the most calls made it to the second round.

space	Start number	Interpreter	song
1st - 4th	2	Alexa Feser	luck
	8th	Andreas cares	Home is in my hands
	5	Ann Sophie	Jump the gun
	7th	Laing	Show your muscles
5th-8th	6th	Fahrhaidt	Frozen Silence
	3	faun	Do you hear the drums
	1	Mrs. Greenbird	Shine Shine Shine
	4th	Noize generation	A song for you

Second round

The four participants in the second round presented a second song. The audience could then choose an artist and one of his two songs. Two candidates qualified for the third round with their second song.

space	Start number	Interpreter	song
1st – 2nd	4th	Andreas cares	Heart of Stone
	2	Ann Sophie	Black smoke
3rd to 4th	1	Alexa Feser	The gold of tomorrow
	3	Laing	Changes the lighting

Third round

In the third round, the finalists presented the two songs chosen by the audience. Andreas Kümmert then received the most votes, but refused to participate, so Ann Sophie Germany will be represented at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.

Kümmert justified his decision as follows:

“I am in no real condition to accept this election, so I have to ... I give my title to Ann Sophie. I just think that she's much more suitable and qualified for it - I'm a little singer. "

- Andreas cares

space	Start number	Interpreter	song	Audience votes	Remarks
1.	2	Andreas cares	Heart of Stone	78.7%	Kümmert voluntarily refrains from participating in the ESC
2.	1	Ann Sophie	Black smoke	21.3%	Ann Sophie represents Germany at the ESC

Participants in the club concert

The participants in the club concert were selected by a jury of nine. In it sat as chairman of NDR entertainment director and ARD entertainment coordinator Thomas Schreiber , Stefan Müller ( Warner Music ), Konrad von Löhneysen (spokesman for the independent label ), Tom Bohne ( Universal Music ), Aditya Sharma (music director at Fritz radio station ) and Nico Gössel ( Sony ), Norbert Grundei ( N-Joy ) as well as Jörg Grabosch and Claudia Gliedt (both at Brainpool ).

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Audience votes	image
01.	08th	Ann Sophie	Jump the Gun M / T: Beatgees , Katrina Noorbergen , Laila Samuels	English	24.1%
02.	10	Ason	Hey You M / T: Dorotea Andersson	English	18.1%
03.	04th	Moonjos	Haggard Heart	English	12.0%
04th	01	Sound poet	4 U M: Baader, Karaca, N'Gom, Zett1; T: Karaca, N'Gom, Zett1	English, German , Turkish	11.6
05.	03	Sophie Inacker	Imperfection M / T: Guido Schwarz	English	08.0%
06th	07th	Alisson Bonnefoy	Burning Down M / T: Alisson Bonnefoy	English	07.5%
07th	06th	Aden Jaron	We're on fire	English	07.3%
08 .	02	Lars Pinkwart	Tornado M / T: Lars Pinkwart	English	05.7%
09.	09	Sendi Hoxha	Battlefield M / T: Sendi Hoxha	English	03.2%
10.	05	Louisa Teichmann	boomerang	English	02.5%

transmission

broadcast	Send date	Channel	Candidates
Club concert	Feb. 19, 2015, 10:00 p.m.	,	10
German preliminary decision	0March 5, 2015, 8:15 p.m.	,	08th

Odds

The club concert on February 19, 2015 reached 160,000 more spectators than in the previous year. In the broadcasting area of ​​the NDR, a brand share of 6.1% was achieved, so that every second viewer of the club concert came from there.

broadcast	spectator		Market share
	total	14 to 49 years	total	14 to 49 years
Club concert	0.52 million	-	02.4%	01.9%
German preliminary decision	3.20 million	1.25 million	10.3%	11.9%

Show acts

At the opening of the event, Conchita Wurst sang last year's winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, Rise Like a Phoenix . During one of the voting breaks, she presented her new single You Are Unstoppable live for the first time . Mark Forster performed with his single Flash mich , and Stefanie Heinzmann presented the first single In the End from her fourth album.

venue

On September 8, 2014, the NDR confirmed the TUI Arena in Hanover as the venue. The preliminary decision was broadcast on March 5, 2015 in a live broadcast on Das Erste . The club concert was held on February 19, 2015 at Große Freiheit 36 in Hamburg-St. Pauli .

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  Große Freiheit 36, venue of the club concert

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  The TUI Arena, the venue for the German preliminary round of the ESC 2015

See also

• Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

Commons : Our song for Austria  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Unser Song for Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2015 From 10 p.m .: Follow the club concert in the live stream! In: eurovision.de. BremenVier.online, February 4, 2015, archived from the original on April 25, 2015 ; accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
2. ↑ «ESC» - preliminary decision: Participants have been determined. Quotemeter.de , January 4, 2015, accessed on January 14, 2015 . 
3. ↑ “Our Song for Austria”: Apply now! eurovision.de, September 8, 2014, accessed on September 8, 2014 . 
4. ↑ German ESC finalist does not want to travel to the song contest
5. ↑ Our song for Austria: Which acts are there? escfans.de, January 9, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Listen to the preliminary decision songs. eurovision.de, February 5, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2015 ; Retrieved February 5, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Interview with Thomas Schreiber. Prince Blog, January 18, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Germany: Line-up for club concert announced. eurovision.tv, January 9, 2015, accessed on January 20, 2015 (English). 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Our song for Austria, Hamburg club concert. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , archived from the original on March 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Our song for Austria: Club concert with Mark Forster. escfans.de, January 14, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
11. ↑ A brilliant home win for Ann Sophie. eurovision.de, February 20, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
12. ↑ ALEXA FESER GOES ON March 5th. AT THE GERMAN ESC PRELIMINARY DECISION IN THE RACE. Warner Music , January 14, 2015, accessed February 11, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Ann Sophie after her victory: “When I think of Vienna, my balls slip away”. Prinz Blog, February 20, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Laing in an interview: “Kraftwerk meets The Supremes”. Prinz Blog, February 17, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
15. ↑ Noize Generation in an interview: With light show, dancers and Swedish guest singer to Hanover. Prince Blog, February 18, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
16. ↑ https://www.eurovision.de/event/Showbericht-Vorentscheid,show122.html
17. ↑ ARD media library: Andreas Kümmert explains his decision ( memento from March 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), available until March 12, 2015
18. ↑ Andreas Kümmert wins, but rejects his election
19. ↑ Shaking your head and respect for Kümmert's ESC rejection. Retrieved March 6, 2015 . 
20. ^ The candidates for the club concert. Unser-song-fuer-oesterreich.de, archived from the original on February 21, 2015 ; accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
21. ↑ Our song for Austria Wildcard (3): ASON part 2 - Dorotea and Mickelina. Prince Blog, February 8, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
22. ↑ Our song for Austria Wildcard (6): Moonjos. Prince Blog, February 11, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
23. ↑ Our song for Austria Wildcard (4) Klangpoet Part 2: Haui and Ekrem. Prinz Blog, February 9, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
24. ↑ Our song for Austria Wildcard (7): Sophie. Prince Blog, February 12, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
25. ↑ Alisson Bonnefoy's Facebook post. Facebook , February 1, 2015, archived from the original on February 8, 2015 ; accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
26. ↑ Our song for Austria Wildcard (8): Lars Pinkwart. Prince Blog, February 13, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
27. ↑ Our song for Austria Wildcard 2015 (2): Sendi Hoxha. Prinz Blog, February 6, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
28. ↑ ESC "Club Concert" is increasing, WDR "Tatort" clears. DWDL.de , February 20, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
29. ↑ ESC preliminary decision weaker than in previous years, “top models” are increasing. Meedia.de , March 6, 2015, accessed March 6, 2015 . 
30. ^ Austria: Conchita Wurst premieres new single. esctoday.com, February 20, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
31. ↑ Conchita Wurst opens the preliminary round. eurovision.de, January 29, 2015, archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; accessed on February 20, 2015 . 
32. ↑ Stefanie Heinzmann sings in the German preliminary round. eurovision.de, February 23, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2015 .