The Bundesvision Song Contest (often shortened BSC or BuViSoCo) was a song competition held annually between the sixteen

states of Germany The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign ''states''. Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a ...

. Created by German entertainer

Stefan Raab Stefan Konrad Raab (born 20 October 1966) is a German entertainer, television host, television producer, and businessman. From 1999 to 2015, he hosted the late-night talk show, late-night comedy talk show ''TV total'' on ProSieben. He also creat ...

and aired live on

ProSieben ProSieben (, ''sieben'' is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company ...

, the show was loosely based on the

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...

, with slightly different rules aiming at promoting German-language music by requiring that at least 50% of each song's lyrics were performed in German.

History

The Bundesvision Song Contest was created by

in 2005, in the vein of the

. The contest was held annually between 2005 and 2015, however, after Raab retired in late 2015, the 2016 edition of the contest was not held, although the show was not officially cancelled. The contest was not held since, and in June 2019, ProSieben stated that it was not planning to produce further editions.

Format

The Bundesvision Song Contest followed a similar format as the Eurovision Song Contest: All sixteen

(German: ''Bundesländer'') entered one song that was performed live on the night of the show, and once all states have performed, a winner was decided by tele-vote.

Contests

Total ranking

Presenters

References

External links

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Production website
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