#german esc

[delphiis]

Wie schafft es der NDR eigentlich, sich jedes Jahr an Peinlichkeit zu überbieten 🫡

[allthingsgerman]

I feel like ever since American people have been allowed to watch Eurovision it has gone down the drain.. where is the drama? Where is the glitter? Where are the men in hamster wheels? Where are the naked women churning butter? Where is the fire?

Can't we just get to keep this for ourselves? Americans literally ruin anything they touch!

This has nothing to do with Americans, this has to do with a certain cultural hegemony within the music industry and the way the contest is set up.

From what I remember the juries were originally introduced to moderate the block voting of certain regions (the balkans always exchanging maximum points, greece and cyprus etc.), but not only does that still happen, it now also seems to be a tool for the music industry (the jury is comprised of so-called 'experts' and professionals) to preserve what they apparently perceive as the 'dignity' of eurovision, by selecting boring mainstream songs and neglecting, let's say, interesting songs because it might be embarrassing.

This year the German jury was comprised of:

Katja Ebstein, a 78 year old singer who represented Germany in Eurovision three times between 1970 and 1980.

Alina Süggeler, whose band Frida Gold is mainly known for making forgettable EDM inspired pop stuff and commercials that are thinly disguised as music videos.

Anica Russo, a pop artist who I actually don't know much about but she finished 6th (out of 8) in the national selection for this year's German entry so make of that what you will.

Arne Gosh, a music manager.

Kai Tölke, Head of Music of a German radio station.

I'm assuming it will be similar in other countries. Managers and nonthreatening mainstream pop artists who are the darlings (and clients) of said managers and the labels, but who don't even match the most successful artists in the country.

And the vote of the German jury was:

12 points: Sweden, 10 points: Estonia, 8 points: Australia, 7 points: Spain, 6 points: Norway, 5 points: Czechia, 4 points: Italy, 3 points: Serbia, 2 points: Austria, 1 point: Lithuania.

The vote of the German public was:

12 points: Finland, 10 points: Italy, 8 points: Albania, 7 points: Ukraine, 6 points: Croatia, 5 points: Norway, 4 points: Poland, 3 points: Switzerland, 2 points: Belgium, 1 point: Sweden.

As you might notice, only two countries appear in both lists, and Sweden is last in the German public vote.

[yrayra]

Germany did its Rammstein thing a yall said no.Gave us last place. Fuck you. Never complain about boring ballads from us ever again.

Edit 06/2023: please don't support Rammstein anymore guys, terrible news about Til Lindemann broke; tw for anyone who wants to look into it, stay safe yall

[ladydarkey]

Results of the 1. Semifinal:

Croatia: absolute feverdream

Moldova: magic flute dwarf

Switzerland: typical Radioact

Finland: an escaping frog on fire 🐸🌋 (my favorite act of the Semifinal)

Czechia: girl power

Israel: hot dance and unicorn

Portugal: don't know why they got voted

Sweden: Loreen

Serbia: HIM watched too much Mecha-animes

Norway: QUEEEEEEN

First Semifinal today!!!!

[animestan69]

in support of the de-unification of germany to heighten the chance of at least one germany winning eurovision

[corrodedbisexual]

Just leaving this here. For reasons.

From Blood & Glitter - Lord Of The Lost Doku

[letgomypartypiece]

dutch is such a funny language cus like wtf do you mean "ik wil wat ik wil en ik doe wat ik doe" means "i want what i want and i do what i do" its basically the same sentence

[shiinsei]

what my life has been like for the past few days

[charlie-rulerofhell]

Lord of the Lost being absolute kings and staying true to their word 🏳️‍🌈

"Yes, I am thankful for living in a country that – other than many other countries in this world – is able to socially catch me and others. With heavy limitations of course, we could now talk in lengths about our health care system or Hartz 4 [German unemployment benefits] for example. I am not someone who will step forward and say 'Fuck the system!', because I know that without this system many here would be lost, me very likely included. At the same time, you won't see me going to ESC with a German flag, swollen with pride. And I would also refuse to run around with a German flag there if anyone were to demand me to do so. I rather hold and will vindicate the mindset that, of course, we will inevitably compete for Germany, because we are from Germany, and the concept of the ESC is to have countries vote for other countries, and somewhere you have to draw lines at such a competition. But these lines, these borders, are man-made, which is why I say that I rather want to compete for those people that are into this kind of music and who were missing – broadly speaking – alternative music at the ESC. That is how I feel about it."

- Chris Harms

@kajaono @magoriasocrah

[space-owl]

German moodboard right now

[delphiis]

Dann buchen wir eben wieder den letzten Platz...

[allthingsgerman]

Closing eurovision night the traditional way:

Stefan, please come out of retirement for eurovision, we need you.

[fugsbunny]

Da Israel ja am diesjährigen ESC teilnehmen darf und Deutschland das eben auch tut, habe ich der ard geschrieben um meinen Unmut darüber auszurücken. Ich empfehle jedem, das auch zu tun, hier habt ihr den link und unterm cut noch mein Schreiben, falls Ihr eine Vorlage oder Inspiration sucht. Ich behaupte nicht, dass es das beste ist, aber besser als nichts

falls jemand eine bessere/direkte Kontaktmöglichkeit weiß, gerne her damit, ich hab nichts besseres gefunden

https://hilfe.ard.de/kontakt/

ich hab als Bereich 'die ARD' gewählt, 'Fernsehen' geht denk ich aber auch

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

ich möchte hiermit als regelmäßige Zuschauerin der ARD darum bitten, in Hinblick auf den Krieg zwischen Israel und Palästina sowie der Anlage von Israel vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof durch sowohl Südafrika als auch Indonesien die Teilnahme am diesjährigen Eurovision Song Contest zurück zu ziehen und diesen ebenfalls nicht zu übertragen, solange Israel erlaubt ist teilzunehmen.

Meiner Meinung nach sind die an Israel gerichteten Vorwürfe der Begehung von Kriegsverbrechen und Genozid zu fundiert, um diese in Hinblick auf die Teilnahme am ESC zu ignorieren.

Russland wurde 2022 auf Grund des Angriffskrieges auf die Ukraine von der Teilnahme zurecht ausgeschlossen, was die ARD auch unterstützt hat. Da die Europäische Rundfunkunion Israel nicht von der diesjährigen Teilnahme ausschließt, ist es meiner Meinung nach Ihre Aufgabe vom Wettbewerb zurück zu treten und deutlich zu machen, dass Deutschland sich nicht daran beteiligt, Kriegsverbrechern eine Plattform zu geben. Hier ist zwischen Russland und Israel kein Unterschied zu machen.

Ich hoffe, dass Sie diesem Anliegen die nötige Zeit und Beachtung schenken.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

[ladydarkey]

The representation for Germany 🇩🇪:

Thanks to the viewers voting they won 🎉🎉🎉

We will see them on May 13th at the ESC in Liverpool 🎉🎉🎉

Bad News: the dinner wasn't that good. The fish was too dry and the potatoes too soft and watery.

Good News:

National pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest

starts at 10:20 pm, so I can still watch it 🥰

[animestan69]

also since it doesn't matter, i think extremely funny would be... sending the same person to eurovision every year, just to see what happens

[fenudel]

the positives I take from this year is that I discovered great acts like LOTL, Voyager, Käärijä and Joker Out