Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980
The German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest 1980 took place A Song for The Hague under the title.
By sending led the moderators Carolin Reiber, who was known for her co-host with Maxie Earl in the television show Funny musician and radio host Thomas Gottschalk, who since 1971 hosted at Bayern 3 ( Pop after eight ) as in the previous year.
System
Bayerischer Rundfunk retained the mode of the previous year due to the success of Genghis Khan.
A thirteen- member jury of professionals from the entertainment industry chose from 443 submissions from the twelve finalists.
After completion of the preliminary round, the back held this year, two weeks before the Euro Vision Song Contest, 550 representative determined radio listeners and television viewers were interviewed by telephone after the passage of the twelve tracks by the opinion research institute Infratest. These had to review during the broadcast, the twelve track with a predetermined point scale.
In this year, the final standings of the individual performers were announced Unlike the previous year.
Participant
Mel Jersey had some minor hits since the early 1970s. In the 2010s he performs in a duo with his wife Judith and Mel. He is also a composer of many songs for well-known folk music and pop singer.
Costa Cordalis had come as early as 1973 hits like Carolina, climb into my boat, but Anna -Lena, the biggest success was 1976/77 Anita, who spent three months in the Top 10.
Marianne Rosenberg has already appeared in the German pre 1975, but was with He belongs to me only ten. In 1976, she then entered the Luxembourg preliminary round Tout peut arriver 1976 au cinéma, in German known as songs of the night, but was defeated by German pop singer Jürgen Marcus. In 1978, she again participated at the preliminary, but was only seventh in the discharged exclusively in the radio contest.
Roland Kaiser had a first hit in 1977 with seven barrels of wine. He celebrated his biggest success in 1980 with Santa Maria after the preliminary round.
Stefan Waggershausen & Co. was the band and the singer, composer and former radio host ( Sender Freies Berlin, RIAS ).
Katja Ebstein entered for Germany in the Euro Vision Song Contest 1970 in Amsterdam and in 1971 in Dublin and each took third place.
Adam & Eve were a singing couple, who already appeared together since 1969 and in the seventies had some hits like When the sun wakes up in the mountains or Lailola.
Montezuma ( band )
Tony & David
Stefan Hallberg is a pop singer in 1979 with Who is German champion - was known HSV.
Suzanne Klee is a living in Switzerland, American, who is known as a country singer today.
Maybe Harmoniker were a singing group who sang in the style of the Comedian Harmonists.
Scoreboard of the preliminary decision
The scores of the intermediate results in the following percentages are given in the following table:
Round 1: 5,95 % of the vote, Round 2 at 15.87%, Round 3: 29.76 %.
Trivia
Shortly before the proclamation of the final results of the leading after the third interim status Costa Cordalis is accidentally brought to the stage.
Katja Ebstein reached with the title Theatre the best finish of her three participations in the Euro Vision Song Contest.