Germany: Song titles revealed!

The German broadcaster has today announced the song titles for the seven established acts in Unser Song für Österreich. We now know for sure that Danish singer Amanda Pedersen will front both of Fahrenhaidt's songs and not Emmelie de Forest, as previously rumoured.

Faun
– Hörst Du Die Trommeln
– Abschied
Alexa Feser
– Glück
– Das Gold von Morgen
Mrs. Greenbird
– Shine, Shine, Shine
– Take My Hand
Andreas Kümmert
– Home Is In My Hands
– Heart of Stone
Laing
– Zeig Deine Muskeln
– Wechselt die Beleuchtung
Noize Generation
– Song For You
– Crazy Now
Fahrenhaidt
– Frozen Silence
– Mother Earth

The remaining act will be selected on 19th February. These are the artists who will be hoping to make the German national final on 5th March:

• Aden
• Alisson Bonnefoy
• Ann Sophie
• Ason
• Klangpoet
• Lars Pinkwart
• Lou
• Moonjos
• Sendi Hoxha
• Sophie

Germany: Emmelie de Forest collaborates with Fahrenhaidt for Eurovision?

Fahrenhaidt are one of the eight acts who will participate in Unser Song für Österreich next month, hoping to win the right to represent Germany. As we know, each act will compete with two songs. Fahrenhaidt's first song has already been published. It's Frozen Silence, and it fronted by Amanda Pedersen. However their second song is yet to be revealed. The interesting thing is that Emmelie de Forest, winner of Eurovision 2013, has collaborated with them on the song Wildfire. A two minute snippet of the song has been released and damn it sounds fantastic! Will Wildfire be the second song Fahrenhaidt compete with in the upcoming German national final? Will Emmelie return to Eurovision for Germany? We will find out soon enough. In the meantime, you can read their interview with escXtra here where they confirmed a Danish singer will join them on stage..

Update - It appears Amanda Pedersen will indeed perform both songs with the 2nd song yet to be released. 

Germany: Seven acts revealed!

Alexa Feser, Andreas Kümmert, Fahrenhaidt, Faun, Laing, Mrs Green Bird and Noize Generation will participate in Unser Song Für Österreich on 5th March. The remaining act will come from the Clubkonzert round. NDR, Brainpool Production Company, Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, Popwellen and Young Radios ARD internally selected these acts for the upcoming German national final. Here are the participants:

• Alexa Feser
• Andreas Kümmert
• Fahrenhaidt
• Faun
• Laing
• Mrs. Green Bird
• Noize Generation

The only name I regonise is Andreas Kümmert. He won The Voice of Germany - watch him in action below:

Germany: Elaiza are the winners!

Elaiza has won the right to represent Germany! Brilliant! The song they'll take to Copenhagen is entitled "Is It Right". Such a sweet song. They came from the wildcard round and were practically unknown in Germany before the contest. Unheilig were runners-up. Their second song was fantastic, and was without a doubt the best song of the night. The audience were definitely behind Elaiza more though as she always received a massive applause.

I would have preferred Unheilig but I'm just happy the Germans didn't opt for Santiano. Ewww. Emma performed her Eurovision entry and I wasn't too impressed. The performance looked kinda messy and her voice was all over the place. She needs to work hard before Copenhagen otherwise the Italians could receive a very disappointing result come May. Meanwhile, Santiano and MarieMarie also made the top four. I think Germany have chosen a really catchy and fresh song. It's a shame Unheilig didn't win but hey ho. Enjoy.

Germany: "Unser Song für Dänemark" tonight!

Germany's act will be chosen tonight. Eight participants, and sixteen songs, are in the running although Unheilig seems to be the big favourite. I hope they win - "Als wär's das erste Mal" is one of my favourite songs at the moment. Their other song is yet to be released.

I'm sure Germany will produce an excellent show tonight. Each act will perform two songs tonight and this is how it works. In the first round, each artist will perform one song and televoting will select the top four artists and then they'll proceed to the second round. The second round consists of each act performing their second song and then the two most popular acts will proceed to the final round. The two remaining acts will perform both of their songs and the German public and a jury will decide the winner. Emma will perform "La Mia Citta" - can't wait for that! I think the winner will either be Unheilig or maybe Madeline Juno? "Error" has received a lot of support from German radio stations... The Baseballs are also pretty popular - maybe they'll be the winners? But I want Unheilig. Here's an acoustic version of Als Wär's Das Erste Mal. It's pretty amazing! These are the acts:

• Das Gezeichnete Ich
• Madeline Juno
• MarieMarie
• Oceana
• Santiano
• The Baseballs
• Unheilig
• Elaiza

Germany: Unheilig release teaser of their Eurovision attempt!

The German national final will take place on 13th March, with 8 acts competing, and the biggest name in this selection is probably Unheilig. They have released a teaser of one of their songs - which is entitled Als wär´s das erste Mal. These guys are very popular and are already big contenders for victory.

Each act will perform two songs, and these songs will hopefully be released soon. Ocena has also released a snippet of one of her songs. You can listen to that here.