{"id":315450,"date":"2026-02-28T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315450\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:34:10","slug":"your-das-deutsche-finale-deep-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315450\/","title":{"rendered":"Your &#8216;Das Deutsche Finale&#8217; deep dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"zmnsz\">Germany to select for the 70th Eurovision Song Contest<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"r4csl\">HOW TO WATCH: Das Deutsche Finale happens on Saturday 28 February with a 20:15 CET start time. It airs on ADR in Germany, and viewers around the rest of the world can stream it live on the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4f67d\">Nine acts performing nine entries and a charismatic hosting duo that know a lot about the Eurovision Song Contest!&#8230; On Saturday 28 February 28, an international jury and a public vote will decide what song will be representing Germany at Vienna 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"c7q0c\">With double the energy, humour and Eurovision expertise, Barbara Sch\u00f6neberger and Hazel Brugger will take the stage together for the first time as co-hosts, guiding the audience through a live show that broadcaster SWR promises will be filled with plenty of musical surprises and a celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Das-Deutsche-Finale-26-Acts\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Das-Deutsche-Finale-26-Acts-width=800-width=800.jpg\" width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4837m\">Ahead of the live show, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLmWYEDTNOGUKfpyhoIdBBeh_ofAlYTfdq&amp;si=wmsizt24xgKHt8kr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">listen to all nine competing entries over on the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7la39\">One of these songs will be representing Germany at Vienna 2026:<\/p>\n<p>BELA \u2013 Herz<br \/>\nDreamboys the Band \u2013 Jeanie<br \/>\nLaura Nahr \u2013 Wonderland<br \/>\nMalou Lovis \u2013 when I\u2019m with you<br \/>\nMOLLY SUE \u2013 Optimist (Ha Ha Ha)<br \/>\nMYLE \u2013 A OK<br \/>\nRAGAZZKI \u2013 Ciao Ragazzki<br \/>\nSarah Engels \u2013 Fire<br \/>\nwavvyboi \u2013 black glitter<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A decorative pink-to-blue gradient line\" height=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website_Divider-width=800.png\" width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8cul8\">After the songs have been presented, a 20-member international jury, made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurovision.de\/Jury-Das-Deutsche-Finale-2026,deutschland-354.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music experts from 20 countries<\/a> participating in the Eurovision Song Contest, will evaluate the nine performances and select their top three.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9v10u\">In the second stage of the voting, the viewers alone will decide which of these three acts will earn the ticket to represent Germany at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna this May.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2505016_Sarah Louise Bennett_EBU_42046\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2505016_Sarah Louise Bennett_EBU_42046-width=800-width=800.jpg\" width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"h9ra\">Viewers outside of Germany are welcome to cast their vote, too! At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esc.vote\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">esc.vote<\/a>, the same platform used by the Eurovision Song Contest, international audiences are invited to vote for their faves.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9r588\">Special guests on the night will include comedian Carolin Kebekus, Eurovision legend Paola Felix, actor Hans Sigl, the winners of the 2025 German pre-selection Abor &amp; Tynna, and Michael Schulte, who represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3r26o\">The winner of Germany&#8217;s Das Deutsche Finale in 2025 was the song Baller, by Abor &amp; Tynna. The banging dance track went on to represent Germany in Basel and ended up giving the duo a viral hit over the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany to select for the 70th Eurovision Song Contest HOW TO WATCH: Das Deutsche Finale happens on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-315450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}