ESC fan Pat from Ireland: "Heidelberg and you" with the wonderful Heidelberg author and singer Wolfgang Hampel can save Germany and Stefan Raab, but I don't know whether the author of the global bestseller "Satire is my favorite animal" really wants to go to the ESC

ESC fan Pat from Ireland: "Heidelberg and you" with the wonderful Heidelberg author and singer Wolfgang Hampel can save Germany and Stefan Raab, but I don't know whether the author of the global bestseller "Satire is my favorite animal" really wants to go to the ESC. -------------------------------------------- HNA ESC statement raises eyebrows: ARD is already threatening to throw Stefan Raab out This year, Germany's ESC hopes are resting on Stefan Raab. But before the entertainer has even been allowed to start, ARD is already increasing the pressure. Berlin - Inflation and budget cuts are an issue everywhere, a problem for companies, and ARD is not spared either. Das Erste has to keep a close eye on its finances at the moment and it is already becoming clear who could be one of the victims: Stefan Raab (58). The collaboration between the public broadcaster and the entertainer is apparently hanging by a thread. ESC hopeful Stefan Raab: Does his collaboration with ARD already have an expiration date? A few weeks after his return to the public eye, it was also announced that Stefan Raab will be looking for the candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel in 2025 - in four live shows in February and early March. Despite the new ESC hopeful, ARD is currently looking closely at the figures and is constantly deciding where the available budget will go. "Every area of ​​​​classic TV has to make its contribution so that we can strengthen the media library," explains ARD program director Christine Strobl to the program magazine Hörzu. Whether Stefan Raab's Eurovision show will make the said contribution remains to be seen - but the collaboration is not under a good star, because: "Nothing less than victory justifies such a collaboration," emphasizes Strobl. If Germany does not win the ESC 2025, the program with Stefan Raab will probably not take place again next year. And the chances of winning are not particularly high considering the statistics of the last few years - Germany often ended up at the bottom of the field of participants.