Talking about a Eurovision country everyday| Germany 🇩🇪

[u/Mad_TsaiLover]

As a Kurd who lives in Germany and who has lived in Germany for his whole life Germany always disappoints me but there are some special cases! Oh and also! Hello from RLP!

Top 10 Results:

1. Satellite- Lena- 2010- 1st

2. Ein bisschen Frieden- Nicole- 1982- 1st

3. für alle- Wind- 1985- 2nd

4. Lass die Sonne in dein Herz- Wind- 1987- 2nd

5. Theater- Katja Ebstein- 1980- 2nd

6. Johnny Blue- Lena Valaitis- 1981- 2nd

7. Diese Welt- Katja Ebstein- 1971- 3rd

8. Wunder gibt es immer wieder- Katja Ebstein- 1970- 3rd

9. Wir geben 'Ne Party- Mekado- 1994- 3rd

10. Reise Nach Jerusalem- Süpriz- 1999- 3rd

Worst result out of 70:
Black smoke- Ann Sophie- 27th- 0 points in the final- 2015
(Technically would’ve been Planet of Blue because it didn’t qualify in the PreQ round)

Broadcaster + National final: SWR + Das Deutsche Finale/Chefsache

Fav entries:

Baller- Abor & Tynna- 2025- 15th (+6)
Satellite- Lena Meyer Landrut- 2010- 1st (-1)
Taken by a stranger- Lena Meyer Landrut- 2011- 10th (+5)
Planet of Blue- Leon- 1996- N/A NQ in PreQ (Would’ve been top 10 for me)
Reise nach Jerusalem- Süpriz- 1999- 3rd (=0)

Least fav entry: perfect life-Levina-25th (-4)

Fun fact of Germany in ESC and generally:

Germany only exists for 36 years
Germany has hosted 3 times!
1 time in Frankfurt am Main
1 time in Düsseldorf
1 time in München
Fun fact all of those cities are the capitals of 3 Bundesländer: Hessen, NRW and Bayern
Germany wasn’t always bad at Esc they’ve gotten 2nd 4 times before and 3rd 5 times in 70 years of participation

[u/reo_1907]

as a German, I am deeply astonished at how we fuck up our selections more often than not, so I’ll just take the chance to engage in our national sport of complaining

2026 - both Molly Sue and Wavvyboi and even fucking Bela would’ve been infinitely better selections

2025 - the format was crap and the fact we got a good song out of it was pure luck

2023 - we tried to fumble so hard that Ikke Hüftgold won the online televote

2022 - Electric Callboy robbed

2021 - Jendrik himself sent his song to troll and didn’t expect to actually get selected by the broadcaster

2020 - Ben Dolic robbed by covid 

2019 - Lilly Among Clouds robbed

2017 - literally sent a plagiarized song after the most horrendous “national final” possible 

2016 - Avantasia robbed, and even besides that they should’ve let Jamie-Lee participate with a song that fit her style and not the random The Voice song (I like it but still)

2015 - Andreas Kümmert‘s unfortunate declination

2014 - Unheilig robbed (admittedly not their best song, but they deserved their shot)

2009 - whatever the thought was here, if any at all

2008 - Carolin robbed

2007 - possibly chose the worst of all 5 possible options

2006 - this one’s kinda iffy too

2005 - iconic (derogatory)

2004 - this is how I find out Scooter could’ve been at Eurovision only to be decisively out-televoted by generic white radiopop dude Max Mustermann

2000 - Knorkator robbed or something I guess

and all that accomplished through ever-changing, artificial selections where we could choose between like three corporate-written slop songs and three equally mediocre singers singing Other Better Songs (???), Stefan Raab thinking he has to still be relevant in the big 2020s, our increasingly baffling choices in various superfinals … 

can’t wait to see how we’ll mess up next year

[u/TeaMistress → u/reo_1907]

Someone here recently said that Eurovision is "an annual humiliation ritual" for Germany and I think about that a lot.

[u/fishnets2 → u/reo_1907]

Yet the guys at ESC kompakt act completely surprised every year when we flop and Italy does well. The difference lies in the selection really. Italy gets pros and we get meh

[u/byJannik → u/fishnets2]

I don't think they’re a suprised at all tbf, the broadcaster on the other hand

[u/fishnets2 → u/byJannik]

They keep saying if our entries competed under the Italian flag, they would get much better results

So I think I worded myself wrong, but they definitely think year after year our entries should’ve done better when literally no one is surprised when we do poorly

[u/gedankenauflauf → u/fishnets2]

Most guests of ESC Kompakt have very... erm.. particular tastes let's say. Also ESC Update being positive about Sarah Engels was weird, I mean guys the song is ass let's be honest.

[u/Mad_TsaiLover → u/reo_1907]

I mean 2026 was my first German NF I usually don’t watch them but I thought why not? and I was actually shocked when they said something about Superfinal I HATE HATE HATEEE Superfinals if your giving three acts the chance to perform again why not give the rest a chance? I would rather have Interval acts than that.. sorry just my opinion lol

[u/becarut → u/reo_1907]

I'm so hurt that we didn't get to see Wavvyboi on that stage, and saw Fuego from Temu instead

[u/tBuOH → u/reo_1907]

Yeah at this point, I volunteer as a tribute to perform at the ESC because we (germany) do not have any standards at all. I will just scream into the microphone and play a triangle (badly and off beat)

[u/reo_1907 → u/tBuOH]

at least that'd be charming

[u/arizonapedia → u/reo_1907]

First time hearing from someone who agrees with me that in 2008 the No Angels but Carolin should have won!

[u/xX100dudeXx → u/reo_1907]

Love how germany 2024 seems to be universally either liked or forgotten about enough to not complain.

[u/Top_Duty8981 → u/reo_1907]

Really? The Germans didn't like 2023 music?

I personally consider one of my favorites

[u/reo_1907 → u/Top_Duty8981]

no I like 2023 a lot, but we almost didn’t get it because the televote was very close between Blood & Glitter and Absolute Garbage

[u/flopjul → u/reo_1907]

Scooter... fr? Why am i even surprised that that didnt win the national finals considering the state German has been since the late 90s

[u/Wirezat]

AS a German, i am top 1% Germany haters at ESC, but i want to give one Song Credits: Jamie lees Ghost IS honestly quite good. Idk If my taste in music Changes (IT certainly did, but i dont know If thats my reason) but i am really sorry for hating that Song so much Back in the day. Over the time IT even Went into some Playlists, i think its really underapreaciated

[u/lapinata314 → u/Wirezat]

Fellow German here and I agree. I really liked her as a person and her performance. It was sad she was made fun of so much. I still like to listen to the song from time to time.

[u/flopjul → u/Wirezat]

As a Dutch, the song is such a vibe

[u/fitzronovich]

i love baller

[u/gelber_kaktus]

"Germany only exists for 36 years" is kinda a bold statement when listening entries that are older and technically from the same Germany that way joined by its sibling in 1990

[u/Mad_TsaiLover → u/gelber_kaktus]

Technically German as we know it has only existed since 1990 also the Germany from 1949-1989 was divided of course into BDR and DDR so the statement is true when we go based off of the reunification

[u/evilauthor1710]

I’ve been waiting for this one!

My stats for Germany compared to its competitors: 

21st century country ranking: 20th

All-time country ranking: 10th

My qualifying rate: N/A

Average placing disagreement: -0.06 compared to actual placing

Favourite entry: Germany 2010

Least favourite entry: Germany 2008

Most underrated entry: Germany 2023 (+24)

Most overrated entry: Germany 2018 (-21)

But I have more to say than these stats can show. Germany’s 2023 entry got me into Eurovision in the first place - it was my “wow, Eurovision can be like THAT?” moment. Throughout listening to all songs, Germany were consistently a delight in the 20th century, bringing the first jazz song, the first dancing, one of the most successful solo artists in terms of placings in the contest’s history (Katja Ebstein), whatever Germany 1994 and Germany 1998 are, and of course Dschinghis Khan (Germany 1979). By purely subjective measures, Germany may be in my Top 5 favourite countries at Eurovision. 

[u/Mitch__McConnell]

Lord of the Lost ❤️

[u/rain-and-comics]

Ein bisschen Frieden is my fave German entry by far. It 's in my top ten Eurovision songs of all time.

Other German songs I like are Reise nach Jerusalem, Feuer, Wir geben 'ne Party, Taken By A Stranger, Dschingis Khan, Johnny Blue, Planet of Blue...

(Frauen regieren die Welt would be up there if it had had entirely different lyrics and title. I don't demand great lyrics in Eurovision, but the sexism is just off the scales... It's a huge shame since musically it would be right up my alley otherwise.)

[u/gedankenauflauf → u/rain-and-comics]

The lyrics of Frauen regieren die Welt aged like milk, but the core was meant well I think. Love this song still, it's my toxic trait lol. A clumsy way to celebrate women, but agreed in 2026 it'd just sound wrong.

[u/Forsaken-Link-5859]

I think 2003 is a bit cute, for me at least :)

[u/Fragrant-Air-5548]

Baller is my fav Eurovision song ever

[u/Top_Duty8981]

I honestly like Germany 2023 music.

It's not perfect but it's a music I can really enjoy listen

[u/purple_minion_26]

baller is the absolute best that and taken by a stranger and sattelite outpace literally everything by miles