Germany's Next Topmodel (cycle 2)

Germany's Next Topmodel, Cycle 2
Country of origin Germany
Broadcast
Original channel ProSieben
Original run March 1, 2007 – May 31, 2007

Germany's Next Topmodel Cycle 2, started airing on March 1, 2007 with a batch of 15 fresh wannabe models and the judges that would determine the winner. Two girls, Sophie and Alina, left during the second episode after deciding that their education was more important. Tonia Michaely and Denise Dahinten replaced the two contestants. This season was commercially presented by Opel Tigra Twin Top and Staatl. Fachingen. Finalist Hana Nitsche started a huge career as a lingerie model even shooting a campaign for Victoria's Secret, while winner Barbara Meier started a career as a high fashion model.


International Destinations

The international destinations for this cycle were set in St. Moritz, Switzerland; Cape Town, South Africa; Bangkok, Thailand and Los Angeles, USA.

Episode Summaries

Episode titles as credited on ProSieben website.[1]

Episode 1: Welche 15 Mädchen werden es in die nächste Runde schaffen?

Title translation: Which 15 Girls Will Make It Into the Next Episode?
Original airdate: March 1, 2007

Out of over 16,000 applicants, the judges selected 100 girls as semi-finalists, who then had to prove themselves in a model castings. The applicants had only 2 minutes to win over the judges with their charisma and personality. From the 100, 25 were chosen, and given their first task - a fashion show at the Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany's largest football stadium, where they had to do a catwalk down the field during half-time in front of over 70,000 football fans watching the Borussia Dortmund vs. VfB Stuttgart game. At the end of the second day of casting, ten of the girls are eliminated, and the 15 that would move on to the house were determined.

Episode 2: Das erste große Einzel-Fotoshooting steht bevor

Title translation: The First Big Individual Photo Shoot Lies Ahead
Original airdate: March 8, 2007

The 15 finalists arrived in St. Moritz and went to their first photo shoot on a snow covered mountain for German Cosmopolitan. After this photo shoot, Sophie and Alina decided to leave the show to return to school. Then the contestants had their first challenge, won by Aneta Tober. Finally, they went to their first important photo shoot, posing in front of a gigantic fan with a car behind them. Previously eliminated contestants Tonia Michaely and Denise Dahinten replaced Alina and Sophie. Heidi Klum, watching the photo shoot, spoke highly of Dahinten's creative poses, saying she hasn't ever seen poses like them before. In the end, Janine was the first model eliminated, due to a lack of expression in her photos.

Episode 3: Einzug ins neue Zuhause

Title translation: Moving Into a New Home
Original airdate: March 15, 2007

In the third episode, the girls move into their new house. Bruce and Boris train them in three styles of runway-walk and make-up: sporty, young virgin, and sexy. Later the girls are given publicity training with comedian Hugo Egon Balder; Barbara wins the challenge, and chooses Janina to share her prize - a three-course dinner with Heidi Klum at a hotel. For the photo shoot, the girls pose in Swarovski Crystals and bald caps. At judging, Enyerlina and Antje are not as good as the other girls and they are eliminated.

Episode 4: Der neue Style

Title translation: The New Style
Original airdate: March 22, 2007

The contestants got new haircuts in this episode. They were also forced to pass the "Falling Fairytales" photo shoot from America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6. Contestant Janina-Catharina Küpper could not convince the judges and was eliminated. Fiona Erdmann provoked Hana Nitsche by compromising her in front of judge member Peyman Amin: During a fake casting Erdmann was asked to play the casting agent requesting Nitsche to present a sock to the customer. She worked herself up over this matter so Nitsche felt offended. Later Erdmann apologized for the time being.

Episode 5: Es wird eisig...

Title translation: It's Getting Frosty...
Original airdate: March 29, 2007

During the fashion show of the designer Susanne Marx of the AMD (“Akademie Mode & Design”) fashion school in Düsseldorf Philips hall Alla Kosovan and Anja Platzer were not allowed to walk the runway. At not less than 2000 invited guests, it was a chance for three of the contestants to present themselves to the designers Johnny Talbot and Adrian Runhof and their prêt-à-porter fashion show in Paris, France. The designers decided to take Hana Nitsche, Fiona Erdmann and Milla von Krockow.

Their challenge this week was a photo shoot with a male model depicting the four seasons through mien and gestures authentically. This was useful for the contestants to learn the difference between Commercial Posing and Editorial Posing. The winners Tonia Michaely, Denise Dahinten, Mandy Graff and Barbara Meier were allowed to spend the evening with the male models, with which they had to work for the shoot. The other contestants had to clean the house.

This week's photo shoot took place in a cold storage house with the photographer Matt McCabe. The contestants had to deal with enormous low temperature as they were forced to pose with ice sculptures in mini skirts and mini dresses.

Before the elimination every contestant had to do a live-walk and demonstrate one's learning aptitude by presenting a fire brigade outfit in Editorial Posing and another product in Commercial Posing.

The judges were not thrilled of Alla Kosovan's performance this week, so she was the one to be eliminated.

Episode 6: Knutsch die Kröte

Title translation: Snog the Toad
Original airdate: April 5, 2007

After acting lessons, eight of the ten girls went on a professional casting for a car advert being shot in Cape Town - Denise Dahinten and Fiona Erdmann were nominated by the other contestants to stay at home and miss the casting. Hana Nitsche won the job.

Also, for winning a challenge, Anni Wendler was chosen to be in the music video for the song "Zwei Sommer" by German singer Kim Frank.

She was encouraged to pick three contestants who knew how to play guitar or keyboards to co-star in the video. She asked the others if anyone could play those instruments, but no one said they did. Wendler selected Mandy Graff, Michaela Gräfin "Milla" von Krockow, and Aneta Tober. Wendler later complained the video left her with bruising from pretending to play guitar all day.

The contestants shot a television commercial for an online dating agency. They each were dressed as a fairy princess for the ad in which they found a frog, and gave him a kiss. Frustrated when he didn't turn into a prince, they angrily demanded he do so, insisting he wanted to. The commercial was not shot in one continuous take. At this point, so as to avoid cruelty, the real frog was swapped for a fake frog. Then shoot resumed, as the model tossed the fake frog down in frustration at the end of the commercial. Denise Dahinten was clumsy during the shoot. She also wanted a lot of reassurance from the director, to the point of neediness and requesting a hug. Heidi was on the set and witnessed this behavior. Dahinten was eliminated at the end of this episode.

Episode 7: Heiße Action

Title translation: Hot Action
Original airdate: April 12, 2007

This week's photo shoot was placed in an action setting. The contestants had to stay concentrated despite loud explosion noises in the background. Contestant Barbara Meier was asked to co-star with Heidi Klum in a McDonald's television commercial as a reward for winning an acting challenge.

The casting director said she was not necessarily the best actor, but would be the best one for the commercial. The contestants' parents surprised their daughters by making a visit. Hana Nitsche's boyfriend made a bad joke by pretending not to come but then arriving later on. Nitsche was not amused unlike her boyfriend who laughed a lot and apparently enjoyed having teased her.

Episode 8: Ein tierisch gutes Shooting

Title translation: A Beastly Good Shoot
Original airdate: April 19, 2007

This week the seven contestants traveled to Bangkok to participate in a casting for the Thai fashion label Fly Now. Five of the seven contestants were allowed to walk the runway which was placed in a calf-high swimming pool. The designer chose Anja Platzer and Fiona Erdman not to walk along with the others. The next day the contestants traveled to Los Angeles for a photo shoot with an elephant and a barely dressed man. The judges eliminated half-Chinese contestant Milla von Krockow due to a lack of expression in her face.

Episode 9: Topmodel trifft Superstar

Title translation: Top Model Meets Superstar
Original airdate: April 26, 2007

The contestants stayed in Los Angeles for another week. Their first challenge was to act professionally on the red carpet surrounded by celebrities and actors. Anja Platzer was chosen as this challenge's winner and was given the chance to jaunt on a yacht along with Mandy Graff while the other contestants had to go for broke at a fitness lesson.

All of the contestants then participated in a casting with Christian Audigier, designer of the successfully rising fashion label Ed Hardy. Hana Nitsche, Mandy Graff and Barbara Meier were chosen to walk the runway at a well visited fashion show.

This week's photo shoot demanded a great deal of the contestants as they had to pose like superheroes knotted with ropes between house walls of Los Angeles. Contestant Fiona Erdman later peached on Mandy Graff and Hana Nitsche as she stated they sometimes considered to leave the competition. Erdmann then obviously lost many viewers' sympathies regarding internet polls and surveys. The judges's problem child Anja Platzer finally had to leave the show as they could not find enough enhancements regarding her achievements all over the show.

Episode 10: Bodypainting am Malibu Beach

Title translation: Body Painting at the Malibu Beach
Original airdate: May 3, 2007

For this week's photo shoot, the contestants had to go the full monty as their bodies were covered only by body color during a body painting session at the Malibu Beach. Runway coach Bruce Darnell forced the girls to find foot passengers in Hollywood's Rodeo Drive to argue them into a photo shoot for which they had to imitate film posters. Anni Wendler stuck out with her outstanding achievement and was allowed to fly with a helicopter and watch California's night life from above. Wendler and Hana Nitsche began to backbite – Fiona Erdmann being the victim. When Erdmann tried to talk things out Nitsche evaded the issue. Due to the show's success, the producers decided to elongate it by an additional episode with no elimination.

Episode 11: Das große Cosmopolitan-Shooting steht bevor

Title translation: The Big Cosmopolitan Shoot Lies Ahead
Original airdate: May 10, 2007

The five remaining girls style and photograph themselves for a shoot at a villa in the Hollywood Hills, at which they are allowed to take revenge on judge Peyman Amin for his mean appraisals. The shoot is curtailed when a bush fire breaks out nearby. The girls have their photo shoot for the winner's Cosmopolitan cover; Mandy Graff and Barbara Meyer have to do theirs again. They then have to answer questions in English at a press conference with American journalists; the language barrier is an obstacle, and Barbara is upset when she inadvertently says something she thinks will upset her boyfriend. They are relieved to find out afterwards that the journalists were actors. At the judging, the girls have to walk in both pret-a-porter and haute couture clothes. Mandy Graff is eliminated.

Episode 12: Wiedersehen mit allen 15 Kandidatinnen

Title translation: Reunion With All the 15 Contestants
Original airdate: May 17, 2007

Episode 13: Das Finale

Title translation: The Finale
Original airdate: May 24, 2007

Though officially described as “live ” the finale was recorded in the afternoon of May 24 and shown at 20.15 PM the same day. It began with Heidi Klum introducing the three finalists: Anni Wendler, Hana Nitsche, and Barbara Meier. Their first live challenge was a bikini-themed catwalk and another one with old-fashioned dresses. Shortly after that, last week's photos were shown to the audience. The contestants had to explain their ideas and implementation. Then Hana was eliminated without any explanation by the judges which displeased the audience and the viewers booed loudly.

For the next challenge runway trainer Bruce Darnell was asked to do a “spontaneous” photo shoot with Wendler and Meier themed “Romeo and Juliet” and “Caught in the Act”. After that clips of all three finalists were accompanied with a live-played saxophone song. The saxophone preluded to an opera version of Ave Maria with all of this season's contestants walking the runway dressed in baroque and unique appearing robes. The studio was quiet for a few seconds before Monrose's "Hot Summer" started and the band members began to walk the runway. As the second verse began all contestants came on stage one by one and did another catwalk walk. Then the final announcement was made: Barbara is “Germany's Next Topmodel”. She got a car and the modelling contract with IMG Models.

Episode 14: Was keiner sah

Title translation: What Nobody Saw
Original airdate: May 31, 2007

This episode was announced as a collection of unaired additional footage from all twelve episodes but half of the episode turned out to be a summary of shown footage. The last one and a half hours showed the contestants at a Spin the Bottle play, a boxing training, a report of contestant Hana being sick and some other scenes.

Contestants

Barbara Meier, winner of Germany's Next Topmodel

(ages stated are at time of contest)

Contestant Age Height Hometown Outcome
Janine Mackenroth 18 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Munich Eliminated in Episode 2
Antje Pötke 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Strausberg Eliminated in Episode 3
Enyerlina Sanchez 25 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) San Juan (originally from Dominican Republic)
Janina Catharina Küpper 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Aachen Eliminated in Episode 4
Alla Kosovan 18 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Berlin-Schöneberg (heritage from Kosovo) Eliminated in Episode 5
Denise Dahinten 21 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Bruchköbel Eliminated in Episode 6
Aneta Tober 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Castrop-Rauxel Eliminated in Episode 7
Tonia Michaely 19 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Berlin
Michaela "Milla" von Krockow 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Göttingen (heritage from China) Eliminated in Episode 8
Anja Platzer 19 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) St. Stefan (originally from Austria) Eliminated in Episode 9
Mandy Graff 18 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Kehlen (originally from Luxembourg) Eliminated in Episode 11
Fiona Erdmann 18 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Bremen
Hana Nitsche 21 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Oftersheim (originally from Czech Republic) Eliminated in Episode 13
Ann-Kathrin "Anni" Wendler 21 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Schwerin Runner Up
Barbara Meier 20 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Regensburg Winner

Summaries

Call-out order

Heidi's Call-out Order
OrderEpisodes
123456789101113
1 HanaFionaHanaBarbaraToniaBarbaraAnetaAnniAnniBarbaraHanaAnniBarbara
2 MillaAllaMandyAnetaAnniDeniseFionaFionaBarbaraHanaMandyBarbaraAnni
3 Alina Enyerlina Milla Hana Anja MillaMandy Mandy Fiona Fiona BarbaraHana
4 FionaJanine Anja Mandy Barbara Hana Barbara Anja Hana Anni Anni
5 Alla JaninaAntje Anja Milla FionaTonia Hana Mandy MandyFiona
6 Janine Mandy ToniaJanina Hana Mandy HanaMilla Anja
7 Janina Barbara Denise Tonia Aneta Anja Anja Barbara
8 Mandy Antje Anni Denise Mandy AnniMilla
9 Aneta Aneta Barbara Milla Fiona ToniaAnni
10 AnjaHanaJaninaFionaAllaAneta
11 EnyerlinaAnniAnetaAllaDenise
12 BarbaraDeniseEnyerlinaAnni
13 AnniAnjaAlla
14 AntjeToniaFiona
15 SophieMilla
     The contestant quit the competition in the next episode
     The contestant was eliminated
     The contestant was part of non-elimination bottom two
     The contestant won the competition

Photo Shoot Guide[2]

Television ratings

(In Germany)[3][4]

Episode from 3 years 14- to 49-year-old
Viewers
(in millions)		 Share
(in %)		 Viewers
(in millions)		 Share
(in %)
1 03,26 10,70 02,51 19,90
2 02,91 09,70 02,21 17,20
3 02,99 10,20 02,22 18,50
4 03,29 10,50 02,53 19,60
5 03,41 11,40 02,54 20,40
6 02,64 09,00 01,87 16,50
7 03,05 10,40 02,14 18,20
8 03,63 12,40 02,75 22,90
9 03,76 13,70 02,93 25,70
10 03,78 13,00 02,88 23,60
11 03,97 13,90 02,96 24,30
12 03,58 12,20 02,67 22,30
13 04,49 17,70 03,26 29,70

Controversy

Many fans were able to find out the eliminated contestant from the next week's episode beforehand.

References

  1. ↑ "Alle Folgen im Überblick". ProSieben. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
  2. ↑ "Was war das schönste Shooting?". ProSieben. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  3. ↑ "German television ratings". Quotenmeter.de. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  4. ↑ "German television ratings". DWDL.de. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  5. ↑ "Paparazzi photos of the show's finalists". Tommy's Blog. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  6. ↑ "Screenshot of the judges's desk". ProSieben. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  7. ↑ "Das große Cosmopolitan-Shooting steht bevor". Germany's Next Topmodel. 2007-05-10. ProSieben.

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