Bundesvision Song Contest

Bundesvision Song Contest
Genre Song contest
Created by Stefan Raab
Based on Eurovision Song Contest
Country of origin Germany
Original language(s) German
No. of episodes 10 contests
Production
Executive producer(s) Jörg Grabosch
Production company(s) Brainpool TV
Broadcast
Original channel ProSieben
Original run 12 February 2005 – present
Chronology
Related shows TV total
External links
Official website
Production website
Stefan Raab, head and creator of the show

The Bundesvision Song Contest (short BSC or BuViSoCo) is an annual song competition created by German TV entertainer Stefan Raab in 2005. For each of the 16 states of Germany a song is chosen by regional radio stations. The songs are performed on live television in order to find the most popular song in the competition. The TV format makes use of premium-priced viewer interactivity, with viewers voting for their favourite songs by phone or SMS. The show is loosely based on the Eurovision Song Contest and its rules aim at promoting German-language music by requiring that at least 50 percent of the lyrics have to be performed in German.

History

Stefan Raab wrote the music for the German entry in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest, Guildo Horn's "Guildo Hat Euch Lieb!", and represented Germany in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest with "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?".

Raab cast the German entry for the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest on his TV total show in a competition he called SSDSGPS (Stefan sucht den Super-Grand-Prix-Star, Stefan seeks the super Grand-Prix star, mocking Deutschland sucht den Superstar – DSDS, the German version of the Idol franchise). The winner of this casting, Maximilian Mutzke, came in 8th place at the ESC with "Can't Wait Until Tonight".

Bored with the Eurovision Song Contest, Raab came up with the Bundesvision Song Contest in 2005 (The Federal Republic of Germany officially being called Bundesrepublik Deutschland in German). The contest featured representatives from each of the 16 German states (Bundesländer) and stipulated that their song had to be (at least partly) in German.

In 2010, due to Raab searching for the German representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the show Unser Star für Oslo (Our Star for Oslo), the 2010 edition of the show was postponed to October.

States

1  Baden-Württemberg
2  Bavaria
3  Berlin
4  Brandenburg
5  Bremen
6  Hamburg
7  Hesse
8  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
9  Lower Saxony
10  North Rhine-Westphalia
11  Rhineland-Palatinate
12  Saarland
13  Saxony
14  Saxony-Anhalt
15  Schleswig-Holstein
16  Thuringia

Presenters

Johanna Klum, who co-presented the show from 2007–2011
Year Host Main presenter Green Room Fan block
2005 Stefan Raab Annette Frier Oliver Pocher N/A
2006 Janin Reinhardt Elton
2007 Johanna Klum
2008
2009
2010
2011 Lena Meyer-Landrut Elton
2012 Sandra Rieß Elton N/A
2013
2014 N/A

Contests

Year Date Host city Winner Artist Song Points
2005 12 February North Rhine-Westphalia Oberhausen  Hesse Juli "Geile Zeit" 159
2006 9 February Hesse Wetzlar  Berlin Seeed "Ding" 151
2007 9 February Berlin Berlin  Lower Saxony Oomph! feat. Marta Jandová "Träumst Du?" 147
2008 14 February Lower Saxony Hanover  Brandenburg Subway to Sally "Auf Kiel" 147
2009 13 February Brandenburg Potsdam  Berlin Peter Fox "Schwarz zu blau" 174
2010 1 October Berlin Berlin  North Rhine-Westphalia Unheilig "Unter deiner Flagge" 164
2011 29 September North Rhine-Westphalia Cologne  Berlin Tim Bendzko "Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären" 141
2012 28 September Berlin Berlin  Baden-Württemberg Xavas (Xavier Naidoo and Kool Savas) "Schau nicht mehr zurück" 172
2013 26 September Baden-Württemberg Mannheim  Lower Saxony Bosse "So oder so" 153
2014 20 September Lower Saxony Göttingen  Bremen Revolverheld "Lass uns gehen" 180
2015 TBA Bremen (state) TBA

Total ranking

Bundesland Points Wins 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
 Berlin 1012 3 16
(12)		 105
(3)		 50
(7)		 141
(1)		 100
(3)		 174
(1)		 66
(7)		 96
(4)		 151
(1)		 113
(3)
 Lower Saxony 780 2 15
(13)		 153
(1)		 109
(3)		 102
(3)		 4
(16)		 12
(15)		 94
(4)		 147
(1)		 59
(6)		 85
(4)
 Baden-Württemberg 707 1 58
(7)		 51
(8)		 172
(1)		 91
(4)		 39
(9)		 103
(4)		 46
(9)		 23
(10)		 47
(9)		 77
(5)
 Schleswig-Holstein 675 0 87
(5)		 68
(6)		 76
(6)		 8
(16)		 60
(7)		 44
(8)		 75
(6)		 101
(3)		 26
(11)		 130
(2)
 Hamburg 651 0 28
(10)		 145
(2)		 28
(10)		 66
(8)		 40
(8)		 73
(5)		 19
(12)		 138
(2)		 70
(5)		 44
(9)
 Thuringia 647 0 25
(11)		 13
(13)		 33
(9)		 13
(12)		 79
(6)		 53
(6)		 146
(2)		 88
(6)		 134
(3)		 63
(7)
 North Rhine-Westphalia 642 1 46
(8)		 20
(12)		 97
(4)		 76
(7)		 164
(1)		 112
(3)		 16
(14)		 95
(5)		 6
(16)		 10
(15)
 Bremen 622 1 180
(1)		 61
(7)		 18
(13)		 111
(2)		 20
(11)		 25
(11)		 20
(11)		 20
(11)		 136
(2)		 31
(11)
 Hesse 545 1 33
(9)		 29
(11)		 19
(11)		 12
(13)		 18
(13)		 53
(6)		 51
(8)		 67
(7)		 104
(4)		 159
(1)
 Saxony 533 0 10
(16)		 35
(9)		 142
(2)		 89
(5)		 20
(11)		 131
(2)		 12
(15)		 13
(13)		 10
(15)		 71
(6)
 Brandenburg 495 1 10
(15)		 94
(4)		 8
(16)		 12
(13)		 87
(5)		 37
(9)		 147
(1)		 11
(15)		 35
(10)		 54
(8)
 Saxony-Anhalt 477 0 102
(3)		 12
(14)		 10
(15)		 12
(13)		 152
(2)		 10
(16)		 96
(3)		 56
(8)		 12
(14)		 15
(13)
 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 415 0 101
(4)		 8
(16)		 41
(8)		 66
(8)		 22
(10)		 23
(12)		 79
(5)		 13
(13)		 50
(8)		 12
(14)
 Bavaria 395 0 81
(6)		 12
(14)		 13
(14)		 26
(10)		 94
(4)		 34
(10)		 32
(10)		 33
(9)		 53
(7)		 17
(12)
 Rhineland-Palatinate 356 0 124
(2)		 31
(10)		 20
(11)		 86
(6)		 17
(14)		 23
(12)		 17
(13)		 10
(16)		 18
(12)		 10
(15)
 Saarland 328 0 12
(14)		 91
(5)		 92
(5)		 17
(11)		 12
(15)		 21
(14)		 12
(15)		 17
(12)		 17
(13)		 37
(10)

Host cities

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See also

External links

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References