The Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 was the first edition of the annual Bundesvision Song Contest musical event. The contest was held on 12 February 2005 at the

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. The contest was hosted by

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, and

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in the

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. It was the first Germany-wide music competition in this format.

Origins

The concept of the Bundesvision Song Contest was first introduced during episode 657 of the late-night television comedy talk show ''

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'' by presenter

on 20 December 2004. The structure of the Bundesvision Song Contest is very similar to that of the

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, held among European countries; the Bundesvision Song Contest uses the sixteen

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, only songs with (at least partially) German-speaking text were allowed, Stefan Raab also announced that the winning state would host the

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. From 17 January 2005, the participants and their states were presented on ''TV total'', for four weeks a themed evening was organised for each artist, in addition to a discussion with Raab about the chosen song. Because suitable representatives were not found for all states, some artists represented states, to which they had no or only a very indirect tie, earning some criticism of the contest, for example, Cologne based band

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representing Saarland, and not North Rhine-Westphalia.

Contest overview

The winner of the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 was alternative pop band Juli with the song "

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", representing

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. In second place were

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representing

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, and third place to Sido with representing

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. 14 of the 16 states awarded themselves the maximum of 12 points, with

, and

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, awarding themselves 10 points each. The contest was broadcast by

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and watched by 3.23 million people (11% market share). In the 14-49 age range 2.55 million people watched the contest (21.2% market share).

Results

Scoreboard

Spokespersons

*North Rhine-Westphalia – Tobias Häusler *Hamburg – Matthias Lorenz-Meyer & Beata Arnold *Rhineland-Palatinate – Carmen Christin Burger *Bremen – Bella Lesnik *Bavaria – Holger Barnsteiner *Brandenburg – Marcus Kaiser *Schleswig-Holstein – Kaya Laß *Saarland – Martina Straten *Saxony – Peter Imhof *Baden-Württemberg – Hans Blomberg *Sachsen-Anhalt – Thomas Schminke *Hesse – Johannes Scherer *Thuringia – Anne Voigt *Berlin – Boussa Thiam *Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Jens Herrmann *Lower Saxony – Frank Schambor

References

External links

Official BSC website
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