Our song for Malmö

Television broadcast
Original title	Our song for Malmö
Country of production	Germany
year	2013
Production company	Brainpool TV GmbH
length	approx. 135 minutes
production	Adrian Strumpf, Jörg Grabosch
Moderation	Anke Engelke
First broadcast	February 14, 2013 on Das Erste

Our song for Malmö
Preliminary decision data
country	Germany
Broadcasting station
Producing broadcaster
place	TUI Arena , Hanover
date	February 14, 2013
Time	8:15 pm ( CET )
Duration	approx. 135 minutes
Number of participants	12
Number of contributions	12
poll	33% online voting, 33% jury voting, 33% televoting
Opening act	Loreen : Euphoria (music / text: Thomas G: son , Peter Boström) , Lena : Satellite (music / text: Julie Frost , John Gordon )
Pause filler	Lena: Neon (Lonely People) (Music / Text: Lena Meyer-Landrut, Mathew Benbrook, Pauline Taylor) , Loreen: My Heart Is Refusing Me (Music / Text: Moh Denebi, Björn Djupström, Loreen)
Moderation
Anke Engelke

On February 14, 2013, the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 took place under the title Unser Song für Malmö , where the artist and the song for the competition taking place on May 18, 2013 in Malmö , Sweden were sought. Here were Cascada with her song Glorious emerged victorious. For the first time since 2009 , the candidate was not selected through a collaboration between ProSieben and NDR , but through a sole production by NDR.

format

There were twelve candidates to choose from for the program. One third of the winner was determined by an internet vote by the ARD radio station in the week before the preliminary decision, by a jury of experts and by televoting on the evening of the competition.

poll

After evaluating the votes, the artists were rated three times using the point system of the Eurovision Song Contest (12, 10, 8 to 1). That is, the top rated received 12 points, the others followed with 10, 8 to 1 point, two received no point.

Radio and internet

From February 7, 2013 to February 14, 2013, 8:00 p.m., listeners had the opportunity to watch the radio stations Bayern 3 , Bremen Vier , 1 Live , rbb Fritz , hr3 , MDR Jump , NDR 2 , SR 1 Europawelle and SWR3 to choose their favorites. The individual results of the radio stations were offset to form an overall result.

jury

An expert jury consisting of the musicians Tim Bendzko , Roman Lob , Anna Loos and Mary Roos as well as the music journalist and ESC commentator Peter Urban also rated the songs with points.

Televoting

The viewers had the opportunity to vote for their favorites in a given time slot through televoting .

Summary of the voting results

Finally, the points from all votes were added up. In the end, the winner and thus the representative of Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö was whoever had collected the most points from all votes.

Attendees

According to Schreiber, five representatives from the record companies Universal, Sony, Warner, EMI and Embassy of Sound, the Brainpool managing director Jörg Grabosch and the ARD entertainment manager Thomas Schreiber decided on the participants. Their names were announced in December 2012.

Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language
Ben Ivory	The Righteous Ones M / T: Alexander Kronlund, Ali Payami, Ben Ivory	English
Betty Dittrich	LaLaLa M / T: Betty Dittrich, Andreas Joh	German
Blitzkids mvt.	Heart on the Line M / T: M. Pittner, S. Malicha-Marx, S. Walker, T. Peters	English
Cascada	Glorious M / T: Yann Peifer , Manuel Reuter , Andres Ballinas, Tony Cornelissen	English
Finn Martin	Change M / T: Finn Martin, Belle Humble, Marky Bates	English
LaBrassBanda	Nackert M / T: Stefan Dettl , Manuel Winbeck, Manuel da Coll, Oliver Wrage, Andreas Hofmeir , Willy Löster, Olaf Opal	German ( Bavarian )
Mia Diekow	Favorite song M / T: Mia Diekow, Philipp Schwär	German
Mobilée	Little Sister M / T: Alexander Schroer	English
Nica & Joe	Elevated M / T: David Jürgens, Alexander Komlew, Daniel Eisenlohr	English
The Priest feat. Mojca Erdmann	Meerstern, greetings 11th / 12th century, edited by Michael Knauer	Latin
Saint Lu	Craving M / T: Saint Lu, Stefan Skarbek	English
Söhne Mannheims	One Love M / T: Tino Oac , Michael Klimas, Andreas Bayless , Kosho , Ralf Gustke , Florian Sitzmann	English German

procedure

Natalie Horler , lead singer of the winning trio Cascada

The show took place on February 14, 2013 in the TUI Arena in Hanover and could be seen in the first . In the program moderated by Anke Engelke , Loreen and Lena appeared with their ESC winning titles at the beginning , followed by the twelve candidates who each introduced themselves in a short short film before their appearances. Loreen and Lena performed a second time with My Heart Is Refusing Me and Neon (Lonely People) in the breaks between votes . The moderators of the nine radio stations announced their voting results for the top three, one after the other, while the scores of the other placed were already displayed. Mary Roos then read out the result of the jury vote. Most recently Anke Engelke announced the audience result, Cascada appeared again with the winning title.

Results

After LaBrassBanda received the most votes in the internet vote, Cascada won the overall standings.

Radio / internet voting

Interpreter	song										total	Points
LaBrassBanda	Naked	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	108	12
Cascada	Glorious	8th	10	10	10	10	10	10	8th	10	086	10
Betty Dittrich	LaLaLa	7th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	10	6th	071	08th
Söhne Mannheims	One love	10	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	8th	067	07th
Ben Ivory	The Righteous Ones	6th	6th	6th	6th	6th	5	6th	5	5	051	06th
Mobilée	Little Sister	4th	5	5	5	5	6th	5	3	7th	045	05
Nica & Joe	Elevated	5	4th	3	3	4th	4th	4th	6th	4th	037	04th
Finn Martin	Change	3	3	4th	4th	3	3	3	4th	3	030th	03
The Priest feat. Mojca Erdmann	Sea star, greetings	2	2	-	2	2	2	-	2	-	012	02
Blitzkids mvt.	Heart on the line	-	-	2	1	1	1	2	-	-	007th	01
Mia Diekow	favourite song	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	006th	00
Saint Lu	Craving	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	002	00
Radio points speaker
hr3 - Tim Spring MDR Jump - Lars-Christian Karde Bremen Four - Lea Finn SR 1 European wave - Holger Büchner SWR3 - Frederik Peters Bayern 3 - Sebastian Winkler Fritz - Chris Guse NDR 2 - Ilka Petersen 1 Live - Sabine Heinrich

Summary of the voting results

space	Start number	Interpreter	song	Points
				Radio / internet	jury	spectator	total
01.	12	Cascada	Glorious	10	8th	12	30th
02.	07th	LaBrassBanda	Naked	12	1	10	23
03.	10	Söhne Mannheims	One love	7th	5	5	17th
04th	06th	Saint Lu	Craving	0	10	6th	16
	08th	Nica & Joe	Elevated	4th	4th	8th	16
06 .	03	Blitzkids mvt.	Heart on the line	1	12	2	15th
07th	05	Ben Ivory	The Righteous Ones	6th	7th	0	13
08th.	01	Finn Martin	Change	3	6th	3	12
	04th	Betty Dittrich	LaLaLa	8th	0	4th	12
10.	11	The Priest feat. Mojca Erdmann	Sea star, greetings	2	0	7th	09
11.	02	Mobilée	Little Sister	5	3	0	08th
12.	09	Mia Diekow	favourite song	0	2	1	03

Odds

broadcast	spectator		Market share
	total	14 to 49 years	total	14 to 49 years
Our song for Malmö	3.24 million	1.38 million	10.4%	11.5%

criticism

After the event, journalists spoke out in favor of foregoing a jury vote for the coming years. On Twitter, too, the reactions to Cascada's victory were marked by a lack of understanding of the jury's vote. Others pointed out that the vote would have gone that way without the new voting procedure.

It was also seen as problematic that three of the five jury members are under contract with the same record company ( Universal Music ) as Cascada. The NDR clearly rejected this, as the artists rated best by the jury were not under contract with Universal.

After Cascada won, allegations of plagiarism were raised. Cascada singer Natalie Horler immediately rejected this. The report commissioned by the NDR also confirmed that Cascadas Glorious was only "arranged with similar and style-typical means" as Loreen's winning title Euphoria from 2012, but that this was not plagiarism.

See also

• Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

• ARD website for the Eurovision Song Contest
• Brainpool's USfM site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Our Song for Malmö": Candidates have been chosen. ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2012 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. eurovision.de; Retrieved December 18, 2012. 
2. ↑ ESC preliminary decision 2013 comes to Hanover. haz.de, November 23, 2012, accessed February 17, 2013 . 
3. ^ ARD radio voting
4. ^ "Our song for Malmö" loses show duel with ZDF clearly, February 15, 2013 (German)
5. ↑ Preliminary decision escapes scandal. n-tv.de, accessed on February 15, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Chaotic voting causes fan anger online. bild.de, accessed on February 15, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Your song for Malmö. Stefan Niggemeier, accessed February 15, 2013 . 
8. ↑ The jury did everything to prevent LaBrassBanda - muddling in the ESC preliminary decision? focus.de, accessed on February 17, 2013 . 
9. ↑ eurovision.de
10. ↑ NDR has Cascada song checked for plagiarism. welt.de, accessed on February 18, 2013 . 
11. ↑ No plagiarism: Green light for Cascada. (No longer available online.) Eurovision.de, archived from the original on March 1, 2013 ; Retrieved February 26, 2013 . 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.