| Das Supertalent | |
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| Genre | Talent show |
| Created by | Simon Cowell |
| Presented by | Marco Schreyl and Daniel Hartwich |
| Judges | Current Dieter Bohlen, Sylvie van der Vaart and Motsi Mabuse Former Bruce Darnell, Ruth Moschner, Andreas Sarasani |
| Narrated by | Marco Schreyl |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Language(s) | German |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 to 180 minutes |
| Production company(s) | GRUNDY Light Entertainment GmbH |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | RTL |
| Original run | October 20, 2007 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Got Talent |
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| Website | |
| Production website | |
Das Supertalent is the German talent show and part of the internationally successful Got Talent franchise, presented by Marco Schreyl, who was joined by Daniel Hartwich from the second season onwards. Just like in all other versions of the franchise, auditions take place and the judges review their talent and then later the home audience vote in an election to deem who wins.
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Season 1 was presented by Marco Schreyl (also the host of Deutschland sucht den Superstar - the German version of Pop Idol). The auditions took place in Cologne, Hamburg, Oldenburg and Munich and approximately 5000 people applied for the three-part show. The auditions took place in the first two programs on 20 October and 27 October 2007, in the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The judges were Dieter Bohlen (also a judge on Deutschland sucht den Superstar), Ruth Moschner (comedian) and André Sarrasani (circus director). The show reached up to 6.72 million in audience figures. On 3 November, 19-year-old opera singer Ricardo Marinello won in the final by singing and won 100,000 euros.
On 18 October 2008, the second season began. Due to good ratings, the amount of episodes was increased to 7 episodes; 4 audition shows, each 1 hour long and 3 live shows, each 2 hours long. Dieter Bohlen remained as a judge but the two others were replaced by Bruce Darnell (an American model and choreographer who also judges Germany's Next Topmodel) and Sylvie van der Vaart (a Dutch TV presenter and wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart). The last episodes were on 15 and 22 November. 44-year-old harmonica player Michael Hirte won the second season with 72.62 percent of the vote and won the 100,000 euros with it. On December 5 he released an album called Der Mann mit der Mundharmonika (The Man with the Mouth-organ) which placed #1 on the German Charts and did the same little later in Austria and Switzerland.
Season 3 began on 16 October 2009. The judge line-up remained the same from Season 2. Due to the high viewing figures in the second season, RTL Television increased the number of the audition episodes from 4 to 7 and the number of the semifinalists from 24 to 30. On December 20, 2009, Yvo Antoni went on to win the show, for his act with his dog, which receive controversial response.
Season 4 began on the 16 May 2010 in Frankfurt am Main. The first episode was screened on 24 September. The first episode had the best quotes of all seasons: 7,47 million viewers. The second episode the following day could even top that with 7,74 million viewers. The top 40 semi-finals began on 27 November.
Season 5 started airing on 16 September 2011, while the castings started on 1 May in Hamburg. The judge line-up was changed as Bruce Darnell decided to leave the show to be replaced by professional dancer Motsi Mabuse. The first episode attracted 7,34 million viewers. On 24 November 2011, the show aired with an "special episode" on Thursday to compete with the new talent show The Voice of Germany from rival networks ProSieben/Sat.1. The episode hit a season low with only 5,83 million viewers and lost against The Voice of Germany in the target group 14-49.
| Season | Hosts | Judges | |||
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| 1 | Marco Schreyl | — | Dieter Bohlen | Ruth Moschner | André Sarrasani |
| 2 | Daniel Hartwich | Sylvie van der Vaart | Bruce Darnell | ||
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| 5 | Motsi Mabuse | ||||
| Season | Winner | Style |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ricardo Marinello | Singing |
| 2 | Michael Hirte | Harmonica |
| 3 | Yvo Antoni | Acting |
| 4 | Freddy Sahin-Scholl | Singing |
| 5 | Leo Rojas | Pan Flute Playing |
Barbara Grofe of RP Online wrote in an early review: "Talents are little to see, but an awful lot of people with ego problems".[1] In another review, it was criticized that also children at a very young age can present their talents.[2] The youth protection also takes a close eye on the show for years now. Next to that, it has been highly criticized in recent seasons that candidates with no real talent are presented to the audience after a pre-casting to humiliate these people and push the ratings. Christian Richter writes about the show that the "performances are artificially drawn in the length" and the candidates "tell their personal tragic story with overly dramatic music", even repeating the crucial scenes again in slow motion. Richter goes on saying that "RTL characterizes the term 'Emotainments'".[3] It was also published by the Bild as "super cheating" that RTL paid some of their talents money for their participation in the show.[4] In spite of the critics, the show is very popular among viewers. In 2010, Das Supertalent also won the Golden Camera award as Best Entertainment Show.[5]
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