Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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Germany
Germany
Member stationKiKa (ARD, ZDF)
National selection events
National final
  • Dein Song
  • 2020
  • Junior ESC
  • 2021
Participation summary
Appearances2
First appearance2020
Highest placement12th: 2020
External links
NDR page
Germany's page at JuniorEurovision.tv
Song contest current event.png For the most recent participation see
Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Germany debuted at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. KiKa, the children's channel jointly owned by European Broadcasting Union (EBU) members ARD and ZDF, is responsible for the country's participation. Germany finished last place on their debut in 2020, when Susan Oseloff represented the country with "Stronger with You". For the 2021 competition, KiKa selected Pauline with the song "Imagine Us".

History[]

Germany was originally going to take part in the 2003 contest in Copenhagen, but later withdrew from the contest.[1] They also planned to take part in the 2004 contest in Lillehammer but again withdrew from the contest.[2] In addition, NDR also broadcast the 2003,[3] 2015[4] and 2016 contests.[5] For 2003, the broadcaster organised a delayed broadcast on KiKa whilst the contests in 2015 and 2016 were livestreamed via the broadcaster's Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.de with commentary provided by Thomas Mohr.[6]

In May 2014, NDR announced they would not debut at the 2014 contest as they believed the contest would not be a success under German television marketing standards.[7] They did, however, observe the 2013 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. ZDF attended the 2014 Contest in Malta. On 1 July 2015, ARD consortium member NDR launched an online poll to decide whether Germany should participate in the 2015 contest, which would be broadcast on their children's station, KiKa (a joint venture of ARD and ZDF).[8] Germany ultimately did not participate.

In December 2019, KiKA confirmed that a delegation from the broadcaster and NDR was attending the 2019 contest in Gliwice, Poland to experience the competition as part of the audience. It was emphasised that no decision had yet been made as to whether Germany would participate the following year or not although there were close discussions with the EBU.[9]

On 8 July 2020, KiKA confirmed that a delegation from broadcasters NDR and ZDF was participating for the first time in the 2020 contest in Warsaw.[10] Their first ever representative, Susan Oseloff, finished in last place during the final on 29 November 2020, scoring 66 points. Nevertheless, Germany confirmed their participation in 2021 contest in France.[11] On 10 September 2021, Pauline Steinmüller was announced as the artist that should represent Germany in the 2021 contest with the song "Imagine Us".[12] In Paris, Pauline finished 17th out of 19 countries, receiving 61 points.

Participation overview[]

Table key
◁
 Last place
Year Entrant Song Language Place Points
2020 Susan "Stronger with You" German, English 12 ◁ 66
2021 Pauline "Imagine Us" German, English 17 61

Commentators and spokespersons[]

Prior to their first participation in 2020, Germany had broadcast the competition on three occasions.

Year Commentator Channel(s) Spokesperson Ref.
2003 Un­known KiKa Did not participate [3]
2015 Thomas Mohr NDR website [13]
2016 [5]
2020 Bürger Lars Dietrich KiKa Olivia [14][15]
2021 Constantin Zöller (Consi) Venetia [16][17]

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Philips, Roel (8 June 2004). "Germany withdraws from Junior Eurovision Song Contest". ESCToday. Esctoday. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b "EBU.CH :: EBU news - 2003_11_17". EBU. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Germany: Livestream For JESC 2015". Esctoday.com. Esctoday. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  5. ^ a b Granger, Anthony (3 November 2016). "Germany: Junior Eurovision Online Broadcast Confirmed". Eurovoix. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  6. ^ "German interest in Junior Eurovision Song Contest". 16 November 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  7. ^ Granger, Anthony (24 May 2014). "Germany: Will Not Take Part In JESC 2014". Eurovoix. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  8. ^ Feddersen, Jan (1 July 2015). "Germany: Deutschland beim Junior Eurovision Song Contest?". Eurovision.de (in German). NDR. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  9. ^ Granger, Anthony (22 November 2019). "Germany: Delegation Observing Junior Eurovision 2019". Eurovoix. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Deutschland nimmt am Junior ESC 2020 teil". eurovision.de (in German). 8 September 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  11. ^ Hertlein, Benjamin (24 February 2021). "Deutschland nimmt auch 2021 am Junior Eurovision Song Contest teil". ESC kompakt (in German). Archived from the original on 24 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Germany to send Pauline to Paris!". junioreurovision.tv. 10 September 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  13. ^ Hendrickx, Jonathan (16 November 2015). "German interest in Junior Eurovision Song Contest". Eurovoix. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  14. ^ "Germany will participate at Junior Eurovision 2020". Junioreurovision.tv. EBU. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  15. ^ "Bürger Lars Dietrich kommentiert den Junior ESC 2020". eurovision.de (in German). 21 October 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  16. ^ "Alle Infos zum Junior ESC 2021 in Frankreich". NDR (in German). 11 August 2021. Archived from the original on 11 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  17. ^ Farren, Neil (3 November 2021). "