As previously revealed<\/a>, the vote in Das Deutsche Finale will be divided in two rounds. In the first round, an international jury formed of 20 members from 20 countries competing in the Eurovision Song Contest will vote, and from their votes, the top three will progress to the next phase. Ultimately, from that top three, the German audience will choose the country\u2019s representative for Eurovision 2026.<\/p>\nThe international jurors are:<\/p>\n
\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 United Kingdom: William Lee Adams, founder of Wiwibloggs.
\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddff Czechia: Annabelle, singer, rapper, and songwriter. She participated in ESCZ, the Czech selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, in 2022.
\n\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4 Norway: Margaret Berger, represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 placing fourth.
\n\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea Sweden: Christer Bj\u00f6rkman, represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1992. From 2002 to 2021 he was Head of the Swedish delegation at Eurovision and producer of Melodifestivalen from 2002 to 2021, he also worked as contest producer of Eurovision 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024, and 2025.
\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 France: Carla, representative for France at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019.
\n\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea Belgium: Wim Dehandschutter, journalist. Since 2004 he has been covering Eurosong, the Belgian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
\n\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf9 Malta: Destiny, representative of Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, finishing seventh place. She is also a former winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, having won the competition for Malta in 2015.
\n\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf0 Denmark: Christian Ellegaard, journalist.
\n\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2 Armenia: Gohar Gasparyan, Head of the Armenian delegation for the Eurovision Song Contest from 2010 to 2018.
\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded Switzerland: Luca H\u00e4nni, representative for Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, where he placed fourth.
\n\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf4 Romania: Anca Lupes, music journalist.
\n\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfa Luxembourg: Catherine Nothum, radio presenter and producer.
\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfe Cyprus: Alex Panayi, composer, producer, musical creator, vocal coach and backing vocalist for many Eurovision acts, including Greece 2005 & Greece 2009.
\n\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Italy: Diletta Parlangeli, journalist and presenter, she has been commentating the Eurovision Song Contest on Radio 2 since 2023.
\n\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 Ukraine: Ruslana, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004.
\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee Finland: Sanni, judge and coach on the TV show \u201cThe Voice of Finland\u201d.
\n\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea Estonia: Karl-Erik Taukar, singer, bassist, and television presenter.
\n\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9 Austria: Thomas Thurner, producer, songwriter, and co-composer. He collaborated with artists like Lena Meyer-Landrut, Malik Harris, Conchita Wurst, and JJ, producing the song that won Eurovision 2025 Wasted Love.
\n\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf9 Lithuania: Vaidotas Valiukevi\u010dius, singer, songwriter, model, and actor. Frontman of the band The Roop, he represented Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 and 2021, placing 8th.
\n\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Poland: Roxie W\u0119giel, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song \u201cAnyone I want to be\u201d.<\/p>\n
Eurovision Song Contest \u2013 Das Deutsche Finale 2026\u00a0will take place on February 28 live from Berlin. The show will be hosted live from Berlin by Barbara Sch\u00f6neberger and Hazel Brugger, who hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The show will also feature guest performances from Abor & Tynna, who represented Germany at Eurovision 2025; Paola, who represented Switzerland at Eurovision 1969 and 1980; and comedian Carolin Kebekus.<\/p>\n
The finalists are:<\/p>\n
Abor & Tynna represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song \u201cBaller\u201d. They finished 15th scoring a total of 151 points.<\/p>\n
Source: Eurovision.de<\/a><\/p>\nGermany in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n
Germany was one of seven countries to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. The country has taken part in every contest since then, apart from in 1996 when they failed to make it through the qualifying round. To date, Germany has won the contest twice. The first time was in 1982 when Nicole sang \u201cEin Bisschen Frieden\u201d in Harrogate, which later became a global hit. Germany didn\u2019t win again until 2010 when Lena sang \u201cSatellite\u201d in Oslo. She received 9 sets of 12 points, scoring 246 points overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The professionals that will be part of the international jury for Das Deutsche Finale 2026 have been revealed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,144093,33958,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-443854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-eurovision-song-contest-das-deutsche-finale-2026","tag-headline","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}