Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: "Isaak is really right! Isaak, many ESC fans around the world and I very much doubt that Stefan Raab will be successful with this very strange ESC preliminary decision

Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: "Isaak is really right! Isaak, many ESC fans around the world and I very much doubt that Stefan Raab will be successful with this very strange ESC preliminary decision. News in Five ESC twelfth place Isaak: «Raab doesn't appeal to me anymore» C. Peters • 55 million • 2 minutes reading time Berlin (dpa) - The German participant in last year's Eurovision Song Contest, Isaak Guderian, is skeptical about Stefan Raab's return to the music competition. "I don't know why, whether he has changed, the world has changed or I have changed, but Raab doesn't appeal to me anymore," said the singer from Espelkamp in East Westphalia to the "Rheinische Post". The "new old style" of the entertainer no longer appeals to him. "That's why I fear that he could fail with the ESC." After a long break, Raab will be responsible for an ESC preliminary round again from Friday. With the format "Chefsache ESC 2025" (February 14, 8:15 p.m., RTL/RTL+), the 58-year-old wants to give Germany a winner for the competition again after years of drought. During the application phase, Raab and his team were not looking for songs, but for people, said Guderian, who is known by his stage name Isaak. "I have the feeling that he wants a blank canvas and wants to transfer his vision onto it." The entertainer's comeback could either be a "huge success" or a "flop". Isaak: ESC was "physically and emotionally overwhelming" His twelfth place at the ESC 2024 had advanced his career, the 30-year-old continued. Nevertheless, he has mixed feelings about the ESC final. "I would do it the same way again, but it was no picnic. It was physically and emotionally overwhelming." So far, he has no plans to perform around this year's ESC preliminary round.