Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: In the first two shows of the German ESC preliminary round 2025 for Basel, the participants only perform their own older songs or cover songs. When I heard that, I couldn't believe it. How can a professional like Stefan Raab come up with something like that?

Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: In the first two shows of the German ESC preliminary round 2025 for Basel, the participants only perform their own older songs or cover songs. When I heard that, I couldn't believe it. How can a professional like Stefan Raab come up with something like that? Germany needs a strong performer and a song that is different from the other entries and is perceived positively. The staging should finally be imaginative and creative so that there is a chance of landing on the left side of the table. Twelve of these acts will present themselves to the jury consisting of Raab, singer Yvonne Catterfeld and long-term intern Elton in two RTL live shows on February 14 and 15 at 8:15 p.m. Seven applicants from each show will advance to the semi-finals (on February 22 at 8:15 p.m. also on RTL), before things get serious in the final on Saturday, March 1, on ARD. In the semi-finals, the artists perform the ESC songs. The jury decides on participants without having heard their current ESC song. What's the point of that? --------------------------------- Wolfgang Hampel, author of the global success "Satire is my favorite animal" and his great song "Heidelberg and you" - video on the Old Neckar Bridge in Heidelberg --------- Vita Magica September 2017 - Song TRY TO REMEMBER for Linde Lund sung by Wolfgang Hampel (11'47 at the end of the video) ------------ Living room reading with Wolfgang Hampel ----------- Wolfgang Hampel, author of "Satire is my favorite animal" in the Heidelberg Authors Directory --------- Buchinfo national & international, Eurobuch national & international,---------------- - --- USA , United Kingdom, Australia , Brazil , Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Germany , India , Italy, Hungary , Japan, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands , Spain, Sweden, Switzerland , Switzerland , Turkey ----------------- Wolfgang Hampel in the SWR 3 program "Herzschlag-Momente" ------------- A sketch about Brexit in Vita Magica by and with Wolfgang Hampel