Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Germany hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf and selected their song through a national final, organised by German broadcaster ARD in collaboration with Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). In June 2010, ARD announced that Lena Meyer-Landrut would represent Germany at the contest again.

Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Country Germany
National selection
Selection processArtist: Internal selection
Song: Unser Song für Deutschland
Selection date(s)Artist: 30 June 2010
Song: 18 February 2011
Selected entrantLena
Selected song"Taken by a Stranger"
Selected songwriter(s)
Finals performance
Final result10th, 107 points
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Before Eurovision

Artist selection

At the winner's press conference of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, Stefan Raab announced that Lena Meyer-Landrut would again represent the Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 to defend her title.[1] On 30 June 2010, NDR confirmed that they had internally selected Meyer-Landrut to represent the country.[2][3]

Unser Song für Deutschland
Titlecard of Unser Song für Deutschland

Unser Song für Deutschland (English: Our Song for Germany) was the song selection to select the song that Lena Meyer-Landrut would perform at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. The competition consisted of two semi-finals on 31 January and 7 February 2011 and a final on 18 February 2011 all taking place at the Köln-Mülheim Studios in Cologne, hosted by Matthias Opdenhövel and Sabine Heinrich.[4][5] Like in the previous year, the national final was co-produced by the production company Brainpool, which would also co-produce the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. The semi-finals were broadcast on ProSieben and the final was broadcast on Das Erste as well as online via ARD's official website daserste.de.[6] The final of the competition was watched by 3.25 million viewers in Germany.

Competing entries

German and international composers and lyricists were called upon to submit their entries for the competition. Between 400 and 600 entries were received. A panel of music experts together with Stefan Raab selected the top twelve songs. The twelve participating songs were announced during the semi-finals of the competition.[7]

Song Songwriter(s)
"A Good Day" Audra Mae, Todd Wright, Scott Simons
"A Million and One" Errol Rennalls, Stavros Ioannou
"At All" Aloe Blacc
"Good News" Audra Mae, Ferras Alqaisi
"I Like You" Rosi Golan, Johnny McDaid
"Mama Told Me" Stefan Raab, Lena Meyer-Landrut
"Maybe" Daniel Schaub, Pär Lammers
"Push Forward" Daniel Schaub, Pär Lammers
"Taken by a Stranger" Gus Seyffert, Nicole Morier, Monica Birkenes
"Teenage Girls" Viktoria Hansen, Lili Tarkow-Reinisch, Yacíne Azeggagh
"That Again" Stefan Raab
"What Happened to Me" Lena Meyer-Landrut, Stefan Raab

Semi-finals

Two semi-finals took place on 31 January and 7 February 2011. In each semi-final Meyer-Landrut presented six songs and three were selected by public voting to proceed to the final. Public voting included options for landline and SMS voting. Each show featured a panel of music experts which provided feedback in regards to the songs during the show. Stefan Raab featured on the panel in both semi-finals; in semi-final 1 he was joined by Der Graf and Stefanie Kloß, and in semi-final 2 by Anke Engelke and Joy Denalane.

Final

The televised final took place on 18 February 2011. Meyer-Landrut performed the six finalist songs and the winning was selected through two rounds of public voting. Public voting included options for landline and SMS voting. In the first round of voting, the top two songs were selected to proceed to the second round. In the second round, the winning song, "Taken by a Stranger", was selected. The members of the expert music panel consisted of Stefan Raab, Barbara Schöneberger and Adel Tawil.

First Round – 18 February 2011
Draw Song Result
1 "Maybe" Eliminated
2 "What Happened to Me" Eliminated
3 "Push Forward" Advanced
4 "Mama Told Me" Eliminated
5 "A Million and One" Eliminated
6 "Taken by a Stranger" Advanced
Second Round – 18 February 2011
Draw Song Televote Place
1 "Push Forward" 21% 2
2 "Taken by a Stranger" 79% 1

At Eurovision

Germany was the host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and a "Big Five" member and was therefore in the final, on 14 May. Germany voted in the second semi-final. Lena finished 10th in the final with 107 points.[8] The public awarded Germany 9th place with 113 points and the jury awarded 10th place with 104 points.[9]

Points awarded to Germany
Points awarded to Germany (Final)[10]
Score Country
12 points
10 points  Austria
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points  Lithuania
1 point  Croatia

Points awarded by Germany

Split results from Germany

Points awarded by Germany (Final)
Score Televote Jury
12 points  Greece  Austria
10 points  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Denmark
8 points  Russia  Finland
7 points  Austria  Slovenia
6 points  Ireland  Italy
5 points  Sweden  Ireland
4 points  Moldova  Moldova
3 points  United Kingdom  Hungary
2 points  Italy  United Kingdom
1 point  France  Estonia

References
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  3. "Final of Eurovision 2011 set for 14 May, Lena returns!". Eurovision.tv. 30 June 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  4. "Will Lena defend her title?". Eurovision.tv. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
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  6. "Auf der ESC-Baustelle (Video)" (in German). NDR. Archived from the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  7. Klier, Marcus (31 January 2011). "Live: First semi final in Germany". Esctoday. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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  9. Bakker, Sietse (26 May 2011). "EBU reveals split televoting and jury results". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 28 May 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  10. "Results of the Grand Final of Düsseldorf 2011". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  11. "Results of the Second Semi-Final of Düsseldorf 2011". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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