Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Unser Lied für Lissabon (English: Our Song for Lisbon) was the competition that selected Germany's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The competition took place on 22 February 2018 at the Studio Berlin Adlershof in Berlin, hosted by Linda Zervakis and Elton.[4][5] Collaboration with the production company Brainpool terminated after seven years. Six acts competed during the show with the winner being selected through a combination of votes from a 100-member Eurovision panel, a twenty-member international expert jury panel and public voting.[6] The show was broadcast on Das Erste and One as well as online via the broadcaster's Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.de. The national final was watched by 3.17 million viewers in Germany.

The competition featured six competing acts performing a song especially written for Eurovision and the winner was selected through a combination of votes from a 100-member Eurovision panel, a 20-member international expert jury panel and public voting.[6] The international jury panel consisted of members who had been national juries for their respective countries at the Eurovision Song Contest, while the Eurovision panel consisted of German television viewers selected in cooperation with Simon-Kucher & Partners and Digame through surveys on social media in order to reflect the taste of the wider European audience.[7][6]

Members of the International Jury[8]

Name	Country	Profession
Florent Luyckx	Netherlands	Radio executive
Einar Bardarson	Iceland	Composer, music producer, concertist, artist agent
Typh Barrow	Belgium	Singer, composer
Mark de Lisser	United Kingdom	Vocal coach
Henrik Johnsson	Sweden	Television presenter and producer
Maria Marcus	Sweden	Music producer, songwriter
Filip Adamo	Sweden	Product manager at record label
Argyro Christodoulidou	Cyprus	Composer, songwriter
Gore Melian	Armenia	Singer, songwriter, producer
Margaret Berger	Norway	Singer, songwriter, represented Norway in the 2013 contest
Rafailas Karpis	Lithuania	Opera singer
Tinkara Kovač	Slovenia	Singer, flautist, represented Slovenia in the 2014 contest
Anca Lupes	Romania	Music manager
Bruno Berberes	France	Casting director, producer, composer, coach
Ruth Lorenzo	Spain	Singer, songwriter, represented Spain in the 2014 contest
Ferris MC	Germany	Musician, rapper, actor
Helga Möller	Iceland	Singer, represented Iceland in the 1986 contest as part of ICY
Grzegorz Urban	Poland	Composer, arranger, pianist
Rennie Mirro	Sweden	Dancer, choreographer, actor
Sasha Saedi	Austria	Music manager

Interested artists were able to apply for the competition by submitting an application between 27 October 2017 and 6 November 2017. By the end of the process, it was announced that over 4,000 applications were received by NDR and an expert panel narrowed the total number of applicants to 211 artists. Seventeen candidates were selected by the 100-member Eurovision panel, who went through a workshop organised by NDR where they received vocal coaching and choreography training and the six competing acts were selected through a 50/50 combination of votes from the twenty-member international jury panel and the Eurovision panel.[7][9] The six participating acts were announced on 29 December 2017.[10] In January 2018, the competing acts worked with fifteen national and international songwriters, composers and producers in a three-day songwriting camp in order to create new songs or edit existing songs for the national final.

The televised final took place on 22 February 2018.[9] The winner, "You Let Me Walk Alone" performed by Michael Schulte, was selected through a combination of votes from a 100-member Eurovision panel (1/3), a twenty-member international jury panel (1/3) and public voting (1/3), including options for landline and SMS voting.[7] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, German singer Mike Singer performed his single "Deja Vu".[11] 427,519 votes were cast in the final.

Detailed International Jury Votes

Draw	Song	NED	ISL1	BEL	GBR	SWE1	SWE2	SWE3	CYP	ARM	NOR	LTU	SLO	ROU	FRA	ESP	GER	ISL2	POL	SWE4	AUT	Total
1	"My Own Way"	5	8	6	5	7	7	7	5	6	6	6	6	7	6	5	6	5	7	6	6	122
2	"You and I"	10	7	10	6	10	10	10	7	8	7	12	8	10	7	6	10	10	6	7	8	169
3	"I mog Di so"	6	5	5	10	6	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	6	10	7	5	7	5	5	5	118
4	"Jonah"	8	10	7	8	12	8	12	10	10	12	8	10	5	5	10	12	6	10	12	10	185
5	"House on Fire"	7	6	8	7	5	6	6	8	7	8	7	7	8	12	8	7	8	8	8	7	148
6	"You Let Me Walk Alone"	12	12	12	12	8	12	8	12	12	10	10	12	12	8	12	8	12	12	10	12	218

The following members comprised the German jury:[15]

• Mary Roos (jury chairperson) – singer, represented Germany in the 1972 and 1984 contests
• Max Giesinger – singer-songwriter
• Sascha Stadler – artist manager
• Mike Singer – singer-songwriter
• Charlotte Rezbach (Lotte) – singer-songwriter

Detailed voting results from Germany (Semi-final 2)[14]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		M. Roos	M. Giesinger	S. Stadler	M. Singer	Lotte	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	6	14	4	8	7	6	5	7	4
02	Romania	14	10	10	13	14	13		13
03	Serbia	11	15	12	11	6	10	1	5	6
04	San Marino	9	17	18	18	17	17		16
05	Denmark	7	12	14	14	9	11		2	10
06	Russia	12	13	16	10	15	15		12
07	Moldova	5	11	8	12	4	7	4	6	5
08	Netherlands	8	3	5	4	3	4	7	8	3
09	Australia	3	4	3	3	2	3	8	4	7
10	Georgia	13	9	13	15	12	14		15
11	Poland	10	7	9	6	18	9	2	1	12
12	Malta	4	6	6	5	11	5	6	17
13	Hungary	15	16	17	17	8	16		3	8
14	Latvia	2	2	2	2	5	2	10	14
15	Sweden	1	1	1	1	1	1	12	11
16	Montenegro	18	18	15	16	13	18		18
17	Slovenia	16	5	7	7	10	8	3	9	2
18	Ukraine	17	8	11	9	16	12		10	1

Detailed voting results from Germany (Final)[13]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		M. Roos	M. Giesinger	S. Stadler	M. Singer	Lotte	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Ukraine	8	9	12	7	19	11		20
02	Spain	7	4	6	6	7	5	6	25
03	Slovenia	11	11	13	17	21	14		24
04	Lithuania	16	7	7	10	6	7	4	7	4
05	Austria	4	3	2	3	2	2	10	6	5
06	Estonia	19	8	20	9	3	9	2	19
07	Norway	9	23	17	25	16	18		14
08	Portugal	24	18	14	13	8	13		18
09	United Kingdom	15	13	19	18	20	20		10	1
10	Serbia	22	17	24	15	17	21		13
11	Germany
12	Albania	25	14	18	8	15	16		12
13	France	12	12	15	12	13	12		16
14	Czech Republic	14	20	9	23	12	15		3	8
15	Denmark	13	21	23	20	22	22		8	3
16	Australia	2	5	4	4	4	4	7	17
17	Finland	18	25	25	24	25	25		23
18	Bulgaria	20	24	22	19	24	24		22
19	Moldova	21	22	11	22	14	19		15
20	Sweden	1	1	1	1	1	1	12	21
21	Hungary	23	19	21	21	18	23		9	2
22	Israel	5	16	8	11	11	10	1	2	10
23	Netherlands	10	6	5	14	10	6	5	11
24	Ireland	3	2	3	2	5	3	8	4	7
25	Cyprus	6	10	10	5	23	8	3	5	6
26	Italy	17	15	16	16	9	17		1	12