Das Supertalent

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Das Supertalent
Genre	Talent show
Created by	Simon Cowell Ken Warwick
Presented by	Marco Schreyl Daniel Hartwich Victoria Swarovski Lola Weippert Chris Tall
Judges	Dieter Bohlen Ruth Moschner André Sarrasani Bruce Darnell Sylvie Meis Motsi Mabuse Thomas Gottschalk Michelle Hunziker Lena Gercke Guido Maria Kretschmer Inka Bause Victoria Swarovski Nazan Eckes Sarah Engels Evelyn Burdecki Chris Tall Michael Michalsky Chantal Janzen Ehrlich Brothers
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
No. of seasons	15
No. of episodes	182
Production
Running time	60 to 180 minutes
Production company	GRUNDY Light Entertainment GmbH
Release
Original network	RTL
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	20 October 2007 (2007-10-20) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Got Talent
External links
Website
Production website

Das Supertalent (Germany's Got Talent, Got Talent Germany) is a German talent show, part of the internationally successful Got Talent franchise, presented by Lola Weippert and Chris Tall. Just like in all other versions of the franchise, auditions take place and the judges review their talent and then later the home audience votes in an election to deem who wins.

Since season 14, the winner has received a prize, which totals €50,000.

Seasons[]

Season 1 (2007)[]

Season 1 was presented by Marco Schreyl (also the host of Deutschland sucht den Superstar – the German version of Pop Idol). The first episode premiered on 20 October 2007 on RTL and ended on 3 November 2007. The auditions took place in Cologne, Hamburg, Oldenburg and Munich and approximately 5000 people applied for the three-part show. The auditions took place in the first two programs on 20 and 27 October 2007, in the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The judges were Dieter Bohlen (musician and also a judge on Deutschland sucht den Superstar), Ruth Moschner (TV presenter) and André Sarrasani (circus director). The show reached up to 6.72 million in audience figures. On 3 November 19-year-old opera singer won in the final by singing and won 100,000€. The singer Tilly Horn finished as second place and beatboxer Robert Wolf as third place.

• Winner: Ricardo Marinello (Opera singer)
• Runner-up: Tilly Horn (Singer)
• Third place: Robert Wolf (Beatboxer)
• 4th: Gino Badagliacca (Opera singer)
• 5th: Tobias Kramer (Trumpet player)
• 6th: Philipp Fedan (Dancer)
• 7th: Daniel Carr (Singer)
• 8th: Udo Uhse-Thews (Singer)
• 9th: Claudia, Sarah and Magda Rabiniak (Singing trio)
• 10th: Roswitha Wahl and Renate Recknagel (Acrobat duo)

Season 2 (2008)[]

On 18 October 2008, the second season premiered on RTL and ended on 29 November 2008. Due to good ratings, the number of episodes was increased to 7 episodes; 4 audition shows, each 1 hour long and 3 live shows, each 2 hours long. Dieter Bohlen remained as a judge but the two others were replaced by Bruce Darnell (an American model and choreographer who also judges Germany's Next Topmodel) and Sylvie Meis (a Dutch TV presenter and former wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart) and the TV presenter Daniel Hartwich joined Marco Schreyl as the new host. The last episodes were on 15 and 22 November. 44-year-old harmonica player Michael Hirte won the second season with 72.62 percent of the vote and won the 100,000€ with it, the contact juggler Kelvin Kalvus finished as second place and hip-hop dancer Marcel Pietruch as third place.

On 5 December Michael Hirte released an album called Der Mann mit der Mundharmonika (The Man with the Mouth-organ) which placed No. 1 on the German Charts and did the same little later in Austria and Switzerland.

• Winner: Michael Hirte (Harmonica player)
• Runner-up: Kelvin Kalvus (Contact juggler)
• Third place: Marcel Pietruch (Hip-Hop dancer)
• 4th: Vanessa Krasniqi (Singer)
• 5th: Yosefin Buohler (Singer)
• 6th: Christoph Haese (Trapeze)
• 7th: Shinouda Ayad (Derwish dancer)
• 8th: Lucas Wecker (Violinist)
• 9th: Carlos Fassanelli (Singer)
• 10th: Duri Krasniqi (Singer)

Season 3 (2009)[]

The third season premiered on 16 October 2009 on RTL and ended on 19 December 2009. The judge line-up remained the same from Season 2. Due to the high viewing figures in the second season, RTL Television increased the number of the audition episodes from 4 to 7 and the number of the semi-finalists from 24 to 30. Yvo Antoni went on to win the show, for his act with his dog, which received a controversial response. The opera singer Vanessa Calcagno finished as second place and panpipe player Petruta Küpper as third place.

• Winner: Yvo Antoni & PrimaDonna (Dog act)
• Runner-up: Vanessa Calcagno (Opera singer)
• Third place: Petruța Küpper (Panpipe player)
• 4th: Davy Kaufmann (Singer)
• 5th: Richard Istel (Singer)
• 6th: Fabienne Bender (Blind singer & keyboard player)
• 7th: Oliver Roemer (Singer)
• 8th: Karin Andreev (Opera singer)
• 9th: Hannes Schwarz (Saraph) (Fire act)
• 10th: Tamina Geuting (Singer)
• 11th: Carlotta Truman (Singer)
• 12th: Sven and Sebastian (Trapeze & Taiko)

Season 4 (2010)[]

Season 4 began on 16 May 2010 in Frankfurt am Main. The first episode was screened on 24 September 2010 on RTL and the last on 18 December 2010. The judges and the hosts returned for this season. The first episode had some of the best quotes of all the seasons: 7.47 million viewers. The second episode the following day topped that with 7.74 million viewers. The top 40 semi-finals began on 27 November. The opera singer Freddy Sahin-Scholl, which has two different voices during the singing, won this season and €100,000, the singer Michael Holderbusch finished the second place and deaf dancer Tobias Kramer as third place.

• Winner: Freddy Sahin-Scholl (Opera singer with two different voices)
• Runner-up: Michael Holderbusch (Singer)
• Third place: Tobias Kramer (Deaf dancer)
• 4th: Andrea Renzullo (Singer)
• 5th: Ramona Fottner (Singer)
• 6th: Natalya Netselya (Sand artist)
• 7th: Stevie Starr (Regurgitator)
• 8th: Darko Kordic (Singer)
• 9th: Thomas Lohse (Pianist)
• 10th: Bubble Beatz (Percussion on trash)
• 11th: Daniele Domizio (Michael Jackson impersonator)
• 12th: Ruddy Estevez (Opera singer)

Season 5 (2011)[]

The fifth season premiered on 16 September 2011 on RTL and ended on 17 December 2011, while the castings started on 1 May in Hamburg. The judge line-up was changed as Bruce Darnell decided to leave the show to be replaced by professional dancer Motsi Mabuse and the host Marco Schreyl leave the show too. The first episode attracted 7,34 million viewers. On 24 November 2011, the show aired with a "special episode" on Thursday to compete with the new talent show The Voice of Germany from rival networks ProSieben/Sat.1. The episode hit a season low with only 5,83 million viewers and lost against The Voice of Germany in the target group 14–49. Panpipe Player Leo Rojas won this season, singer Sven Müller finished as second place and pianist Ricky Kam as third place.

• Winner: Leo Rojas (Panpipe player)
• Runner-up: Sven Müller (Singer)
• Third Place: Ricky Kam (Pianist)
• 4th: Jörg Perreten (Pianist)
• 5th: Julian Pecher (Singer & guitarist)
• 6th: Mark Ashley (Singer)
• 7th: Miroslav Zilka (Popping)
• 8th: Desire Capaldo (Opera singer)
• 9th: Dergin Tokmak (Dance on crutches)
• 10th: Oleksandr Yenivatov (Contortionist)

Season 6 (2012)[]

The sixth season premiered on 15 September 2012 on RTL and ended on 15 December 2012.. There have been significant changes to the show. Daniel Hartwich took over hosting duties, and Dieter Bohlen was the only judge to remain on the panel. On 22 June 2012 former host of the popular German show Wetten, dass..?, Thomas Gottschalk, was confirmed as a new judge.,^[1] while Michelle Hunziker, who previously worked with Gottschalk on (Wetten, dass..?) and Bohlen on the local version of singing franchise Pop Idol (Deutschland sucht den Superstar). Auditions only took place in the Tempodrom in Berlin. 44,000 people auditioned for season six of Das Supertalent.^[2] This season, a "golden buzzer" was introduced. If one of the judges pushes the buzzer the candidate comes to the next round, no matter what the other judges think. At the last day of taping the auditions, performer Rene Richter asked jury member Michelle Hunziker to get involved in the performance where she was being held by a lead with Rene holding it with his teeth. While holding Hunziker, the lead snapped which resulted Hunziker getting a brain concussion and bruises.^[3][4]

This season has featured a number of failed auditionees from international "Got Talent" shows such as Dan Sperry and Brad Byers of America's Got Talent, Area 51 and Lucky Franco from Britain's Got Talent. Sperry was one of the few audtioners who automatically made it through to the semi-finals due to the golden buzzer rule.

Former DSDS runner-up Juliette Schoppmann appeared on the show after 10 years she was last seen on RTL. Schoppmann, who originally saw success following her second place, had eventually been dropped by her label and failed to make a comeback. Schoppmann felt that this was a way to make it back into music. After successfully auditioning in front of the judges, she had to compete in a sing-off, in which she won a spot in the semi-finals.

This season won the singer and pianist Jean-Michel Aweh, singer Christian Bakotessa finished as second place and magician Dan Sperry as third place.

• Winner: Jean-Michel Aweh (Singer & pianist)
• Runner-up: Christian Bakotessa (Singer)
• Third Place: Dan Sperry (Magician)
• 4th: Jacko (Singing parrot)
• 5th: Laura Pinski (Singer)
• 6th. Juliette Schoppmann (Singer)
• 7th: Emil Kusmirek (Dancer)
• 8th: TaBeA (Gymnastic dance group)
• 9th: Hammou Bensalah (Bubble act)
• 10th: Deidra Jones (Singer)

Season 7 (2013)[]

The seventh season premiered on 28 September 2013 on RTL and ended on 14 December 2013. It was the first season with four judges. The model Lena Gercke and fashion designer Guido Maria Kretschmer joined Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell as judges and the host Daniel Hartwich returned for this season. Lukas and his dog Falco won this season, devil stick juggler Torsten Ritter finished as second place and singer Viviana Grisafi as third place.

It was the first time that the winner won a performance in Las Vegas.

• Winner: Lukas Pratschker & Falco (Dog act)
• Runner-up Torsten Ritter (Devil stick juggler)
• Third Place: Viviana Grisafi (Singer)
• 4th: Sophie Schwerthöffer (Opera singer)
• 5th: La Vision (Acrobat duo)
• 6th: Christian Jährig (Schlager singer)
• 7th: Fortunato Lacovara (Singer)
• 8th: Heidi Schimczek (Schlager singer)
• 9th: Fantastic 5 (Interaction project dance group)
• 10th: Patrick Feldmann (Breakdancer)

Season 8 (2014)[]

The eighth season premiered on 27 September 2014 on RTL and ended on 20 December 2014. All of the four judges and the host returned for this season. Drag Singer Marcel Kaupp won this season, singer Andreas Hruska finished as second place and singing duo Filleri Brüder as third place.

It was the first season, since 2008, without Semi-finals.

• Winner: Marcel Kaupp (Drag singer)
• Runner-up: Andreas Hruska (Singer)
• Third Place: Die Filieri-Brüder (Singing duo)
• 4th: Tumar KR (Popping group)
• 5th: Duo You and Me (Acrobat duo)
• 6th: Light Balance (Light dance group)
• 7th: Show-Projekt (Gymnastic group)
• 8th: Emin Abdullaev (Contortionist)
• 9th: Patrick Müller-Klug (Singer)
• 10th: Laurent Kramer (Comic singer & guitarist)
• 11th: Stay KingPin (Band)
• 12th: Christian Farla (Magician)

Season 9 (2015)[]

After two seasons, it was announced that the judges will be only three again. The judges were Dieter Bohlen, Inka Bause and Bruce Darnell. Daniel Hartwich returned as host. The ninth season premiered on 19 September 2015 on RTL and ended on 12 December 2015. The singer Jay Oh, who was usually an audience member during the auditions, won this season, Erwin Frankello finished with his sea lions Itchy and Scratchy as second place and singer and guitarist Alessio Greco as third place.

• Winner: Jay Oh (Singer)
• Runner-up: Erwin Frankello, Itchy and Scratchy (Sea lion act)
• Third Place: Alessio Greco (Singer & guitarist)
• 4th: Frank Lorenz (Ventriloqust)
• 5th: Lavinia Meinhardt (Singer)
• 6th: D'Holmikers (Comic gymnastic group)
• 7th: Russian Bar Trio (Bar trio)
• 8th: Zymbalinka (Cymbal trio)
• 9th: Paddy & Nico (Salsa duo)
• 10th: Fabien Kachev (Mime act)
• 11th: Felix Faschingbauer (Yodeler & accordeon player)
• 12th: InFusion Trio (Electronic musician group)

Season 10 (2016)[]

The tenth season premiered on 10 September 2016 on RTL and ended on 17 December 2016. The TV presenter Inka Bause was replaced by model and singer Victoria Swarovski and Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell returned as judges. The host Daniel Hartwich returned too. The Golden Buzzer returns as well in this season. However, this year there was a Golden Chair in the audience, this gave the opportunity to the audience to voice their opinion after each audition, however, the audience has no obligation to use the Golden Buzzer or the red one. The singer Angel Flukes won this season, singer Thomas Stieben finished as second place and trampolinist trio Gebrüder Scholl as third place.

• Winner: Angel Flukes (Singer)
• Runner-up: Thomas Stieben (Singer)
• Third Place: Gebrüder Scholl (Trampolinist trio)
• 4th: Alina Ruppel (Contortionist)
• 5th: Carlos Zaspel (Acrobat)
• 6th: Annette Dytrt and Yannick Bonheur (Roller skating duo)
• 7th: Emil Kusmirek (Dancer)
• 8th: Alex Mihajlovski & Barti (Comic marionette act)
• 9th: Salvatore Scire (Singer)
• 10th: Mannheimer Schule 2.0 (Dance group)
• 11th: Patrick Ulman and Zdenek Kremlacek (Popping duo)
• 12th: Stephanie Höggerl and Dan Miethke (Fire act)

Season 11 (2017)[]

The eleventh season premiered on 16 September 2017 on RTL and ended on 16 December 2017. It was announced that the TV presenter Nazan Eckes will replacing Victoria Swarovski. Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell returned as judges and Daniel Hartwich as host. Alexa Lauenburger won this season with her dogs, singer and violinist finished as second place and dance group Baba Yega as third place.

In this season, there was a little semi-final.

• Winner: Alexa Lauenburger & her mixed-breed dogs (Dog act)
• Runner-up: (Singer & violinist)
• Third Place: Baba Yega (Dance group)
• 4th: Noel Lehar (Flautist)
• 5th: Jason Brügger (Aerialist)
• 6th: Stefanie Millinger (Acrobat)
• 7th: Los Manolos Bonn (Musician group)
• 8th: Lucas Fischer (Gymnast & singer)
• 9th: Seicento (Opera Singing Trio)
• 10th: Barbara, Irene & Jannis (Interaction project ballet dance trio)
• 11th: Duo Nigretai (Aerialist duo)
• 12th: Quintino Cruciano (Opera singer)
• 13th: Dúlamán (Irish dance & singing group)
• 14th: Artem Gussev (Contortionist dancer)

Season 12 (2018)[]

The twelfth season premiered on 15 September 2018 on RTL and ended on 22 December 2018. Dieter Bohlen returned for his twelfth series, Bruce Darnell returned for his seventh series and Sylvie Meis returned after six seasons to replace Nazan Eckes. Daniel Hartwich returned for his eleventh series as a host. The regurgitator Stevie Starr won this season, singing trio Mo'Voce finished as second place and opera singer Lorenzo Sposato as third place.

• Winner: Stevie Starr (Professional regurgitator)
• Runner-up: Mo'Voce (Singing trio)
• Third Place: Lorenzo Sposato (Opera singer)
• 4th: Step Out (Acrobat group)
• 5th: Fair Play Crew (Comic dance group)
• 6th: Luciano, Holger and Rosario (Puppet act)
• 7th: Gennady Papizh (Variety act)
• 8th: Olena Uutai (Jaw harpist)
• 9th: Hannes Schwarz (Fire act)
• 10th: Kevin Elsnig (Opera singer)
• 11th: Andreas Maintz (Breakdancer)
• 12th: JD Anderson (Strongman)

Season 13 (2019)[]

The thirteenth series premiered on 14 September 2019 on RTL and ended on 21 December 2019. Sylvie Meis was replaced from singer Sarah Engels, while Dieter Bohlen returned for his thirteenth season and Bruce Darnell returned for his eighth series. Daniel Hartwich returned for his twelfth series as a host. American dog act Christian Stoinev and Percy won this season, singer Georgia Balke finished as second place and whistler Jürgen Kern as third place.

• Winner: Christian Stoinev & Percy (Acrobatics with dog training)
• Runner-up: Georgia Balke (Singer)
• Third Place: Jürgen Kern (Whistler)
• 4th: Dima Shine (Pole dancer)
• 5th: *Ameli Bilyk (Slackline artist)
• 6th: Nina Richel (Singer)
• 7th: De Facto Quartet (Musician group)
• 8th: The Space Cowboy (Danger act)
• 9th: Mirko Casella (Dancer)
• 10th: Angela Kim and Stuart McKenzie (Aerialist & roller skating duo)
• 11th: Yumbo Dump (Comedy duo)
• 12th: Miki Dark (Horror magician)

*Ameli Bilyk should be in the finals in 2018 but must be replaced. The reason was an injury.

Season 14 (2020)[]

The fourteenth season premiered on 17 October 2020 on RTL and ended on 19 December 2020. On 18 June 2020, it was announced that television personality and comedian will join Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell as the two new judges. It was also announced that Victoria Swarovski will join Daniel Hartwich as the new host.^[5] Singer and Guitarist Nick Ferretti won this season, acrobat trio Messoudi Brothers finished as second place and opera singer Vanessa Calcagno as third place.

• Winner: Nick Ferretti (Singer & guitarist)
• Runner-up: The Messoudi Brothers (Acrobat trio)
• Third Place: Vanessa Calcagno (Opera singer)

The Places 4 to 11 weren't revealed.

Season 15 (2021)[]

RTL announced in March 2021 that Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell will not longer be judges on the show. Three months after that, RTL announced that Daniel Hartwich and Victoria Swarovski will be not longer hosts on the show too. Later, RTL confirmed that Dutch TV presenter Chantal Janzen, fashion designer Michael Michalsky and the magician duo Ehrlich Brothers will be the new judges while the "fourth judge" will be a rotating cast of guest judges. While Evelyn Burdecki won't be returning to the show, Chris Tall switches sides. He will host the season together with Lola Weippert. The season will begin on 2 October 2021 on RTL. For the first time since 2013, there will be two Semi-Finals again.

• Winner: Elena Turcan (Opera Singer)
• Runner-up: Vitoria Bueno (Dancer)
• Third Place: (Hand Shadow Performer)

Season summary[]

Season	Start	End	No. of episodes	Winner	Winner's act
1	20 October 2007	3 November 2007	3	Ricardo Marinello	Opera singer
2	18 October 2008	29 November 2008	7	Michael Hirte	Harmonica player
3	16 October 2009	19 December 2009	11	Yvo Antoni & PrimaDonna	Dog act
4	24 September 2010	18 December 2010	15	Freddy Sahin-Scholl	Opera singer with two different voices
5	16 September 2011	17 December 2011	16	Leo Rojas	Panpipe player
6	15 September 2012	15 December 2012	14	Jean-Michel Aweh	Singer and pianist
7	28 September 2013	14 December 2013	12	Lukas Pratschker & Falco	Dog act
8	27 September 2014	20 December 2014	13	Marcel Kaupp	Drag singer
9	19 September 2015	12 December 2015	14	Jay Oh	Singer
10	10 September 2016	17 December 2016	14	Angel Flukes	Singer
11	16 September 2017	16 December 2017	14	Alexa Lauenburger & her mixed-breed dogs	Dog act
12	15 September 2018	22 December 2018	14	Stevie Starr	Professional regurgitator
13	14 September 2019	21 December 2019	14	Christian Stoinev & Percy	Acrobatics with dog training
14	17 October 2020	19 December 2020	11	Nick Ferretti	Singer and guitarist
15	2 October 2021	11 December 2021	10	Elena Turcan	Opera singer

Judges and hosts[]

Seasons	Host		Judges
1	Marco Schreyl		Dieter Bohlen	Ruth Moschner	André Sarrasani
2		Daniel Hartwich		Sylvie Meis	Bruce Darnell
3
4
5					Motsi Mabuse
6				Michelle Hunziker	Thomas Gottschalk
7				Lena Gercke	Bruce Darnell	Guido Maria Kretschmer
8
9				Inka Bause
10				Victoria Swarovski
11				Nazan Eckes
12				Sylvie Meis
13				Sarah Engels
14	Victoria Swarovski			Evelyn Burdecki		Chris Tall
15 1	Lola Weippert	Chris Tall	Michael Michalsky	Chantal Janzen 2	Ehrlich Brothers 3

Annotations

• ¹ Guest Judges of season 15: Riccardo Simonetti ("Audition 1"; "Audition 6"), Motsi Mabuse ("Audition 2"), Andrea Kiewel ("Audition 3"), Yvonne Catterfeld ("Audition 4"), Kaya Yanar ("Audition 5"), Sophia Thomalla ("Audition 7") and Lukas Podolski ("Semi-Final 1"; "Semi-Final 2"; "Final")
• ² Motsi Mabuse stepped in for Chantal Janzen in the first "Audition" of season 15.
• ³ Lukas Podolski ("Audition 6") and Thomas Gottschalk ("Semi-Final 2") replaced the Ehrlich Brothers during season 15.

Reception[]

Barbara Grofe of RP Online wrote in an early review: "Talents are little to see, but an awful lot of people with ego problems".^[6] In another review, it was criticized that also children at a very young age can present their talents.^[7] The youth protection also takes a close eye on the show for years now.^{[clarification needed]} Next to that, it has been highly criticized in recent seasons that candidates with no real talent are presented to the audience after a pre-casting to humiliate these people and push the ratings. Christian Richter writes about the show that the "performances are artificially drawn in the length" and the candidates "tell their personal tragic story with overly dramatic music", even repeating the crucial scenes again in slow motion. Richter goes on saying that "RTL characterizes the term 'Emotainments'".^[8] It was also published by the Bild as "super cheating" that RTL paid some of their talents money for their participation in the show.^[9] In spite of the critics, the show is very popular among viewers. In 2010, Das Supertalent also won the Golden Camera award as Best Entertainment Show.^[10]

See also[]

• Got Talent
• Britain's Got Talent
• America's Got Talent
• Miss Supertalent

External links[]

• Das Supertalent at IMDb
• Official website (in German)

References[]