Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023

Germany is set to compete in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in France, which will be held on 26 November 2023 in Nice. National television station KiKa is responsible for the participation and selected the nation's entrant via national selection, won by Fia with the song "Ohne Worte".[1][2]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Country Germany
National selection
Selection processNational final
Selection date(s)18 September 2023
Selected entrantFia
Selected song"Ohne Worte"
Selected songwriter(s)
  • David Jürgens
  • Martin Fliegenschmidt
  • Sascha Seelemann
Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Background

Germany announced on 8 July 2020 that it would debut in the 2020 contest held in Warsaw, Poland.[3] Children's station KiKa, a joint venture of the German national broadcasters ARD and ZDF, broadcasts the event within Germany and organises the selection of the nation's entry. Their most recent entry before the 2023 contest was Pauline and her song "Imagine Us", who placed 17th with 61 points in the 2021 contest.[4]

In 2022, the country chose not to participate and instead took a "creative break" due to partial travel warnings for host country Armenia issued by the Federal Foreign Office. KiKa still broadcast the show and expressed interest in returning to the 2023 competition.[5][6]

Before Junior Eurovision

The German broadcaster confirmed on 25 May 2023 that they would take part and, for the first time, select the German representative internally.[7] However, in early August it was reported that more details regarding the country's participation would be revealed at the end of the month,[8] and on 23 August it was revealed that a national final with 5 acts approached by the public broadcaster NDR would be held in September to select the German act for the contest instead.[9][10]

National final

The participants and one-minute excerpts of the demo versions of their songs were revealed on 8 September with a voting platform launching immediately afterwards,[11][12] where viewers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland could cast their votes until 17 September. Following the combination of the results of the online voting (50%) and an international expert jury (50%), German child singer of Chinese descent Fia was announced as the winner of the selection on 18 September.[10][13][14] The international jury consisted of Kelvin Jones, Tom Gregory and Christopher, as well as other unnamed members from France, Germany, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom.[14]

The full version of "Ohne Worte", recorded following the national final, was released on 13 October,[15][16] together with an accompanying music video.[17]

Online vote – 8–17 September 2023[12][14][18]
Artist Song Jury Online voting Place
Adriano "Be My Girl" 5th 3rd 4
Fia "Ohne Worte" 1st 1st 1
Lenny "Lieben lernen" 4th 5th 5
Rahel "Believe" 3rd 2nd 2
Toby "Stand Up" 2nd 4th 3

References
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  3. "Germany will participate at Junior Eurovision 2020". junioreurovision.tv. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  4. "Final of Paris 2021 - Eurovision Song Contest". junioreurovision.tv. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  5. Ibrayeva, Laura (2 August 2022). "🇩🇪 Germany: Withdraws From Junior Eurovision". Eurovoix. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  6. "Germany withdraws from JESC 2022". ESCXTRA.com. 18 August 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  7. Granger, Anthony (25 May 2023). "🇩🇪 Germany: Internal Selection for Junior Eurovision 2023". Eurovoix. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  8. Ibrayeva, Laura (3 August 2023). "🇩🇪 Germany: Junior Eurovision 2023 Selection Details Will Be Announced This Month". Eurovoix. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  9. NDR. "Junior ESC 2023: So läuft das Voting für Deutschlands Act" [Junior ESC 2023: This is how the voting for Germany's act works]. www.eurovision.de (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  10. Farren, Neil (23 August 2023). "🇩🇪 Germany: Online National Final for Junior Eurovision 2023". Eurovoix. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  11. Krannich, Bernd. ""Junior ESC": Das sind die deutschen Kandidaten" ["Junior ESC": These are the German candidates]. TV Wunschliste (in German). Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  12. "Junior ESC 2023: Wer fährt für Deutschland nach Nizza? / Online-Voting ab Freitag, 8. September, auf kika.de" [Junior ESC 2023: Who will travel to Nice for Germany? / Online voting from Friday, September 8, on kika.de]. Braunschweiger Zeitung (in German). 8 September 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  13. "Junior ESC 2023: FIA singt in Nizza mit ihrem Song "Ohne Worte" für Deutschland | KiKA". www.kika.de. 18 September 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  14. "Junior ESC 2023: So lief das Voting für Deutschlands Act" [Junior ESC 2023: This is how the voting for Germany's act went]. KiKa (in German). 18 September 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  15. Dijk, Sem Anne Van (13 October 2023). "🇩🇪 Germany: Full Version of "Ohne Worte" Released". Eurovoix. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  16. NDR. "Fia vertritt Deutschland beim Junior ESC in Frankreich". www.eurovision.de (in German). Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  17. FIA - Ohne Worte | 🇩🇪 Germany | Official Music Video | Junior Eurovision 2023, retrieved 13 October 2023
  18. "Junior ESC 2023 - Fragen und Antworten" [Junior ESC 2023 - Questions and Answers]. KiKa (in German). 18 September 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
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