Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981
The German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest 1981 took place A Song for Dublin under the title.
By sending led three times the participant in the Euro Vision Song Contest, Katja Ebstein, who had so far achieved in the previous year, the best placement for Germany in the Euro Vision Song Contest.
System
Bayerischer Rundfunk retained the mode of previous years due to the success of Genghis Khan and Katja Ebstein.
A thirteen- member jury of professionals from the entertainment industry chose from 673 submissions from the twelve finalists.
After completion of the preliminary decision, which took place in this year, five weeks before the Euro Vision Song Contest, 500 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.
This year, the final standings of the individual performers were announced as last year.
Participant
Taco is a Dutch pop singer who in 1984 successfully with his cover of Irving Berlin song Puttin 'on the Ritz was.
Thomas Fuchs Berger is the son of Joachim Fuchs Berger, studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduated in 1979 his first recordings in Nashville, Tennessee. He is known as a composer of many film scores.
Rudolf Rock & the Shocker
Lena Valaitis already took the decider in 1976 with You make some career and had some chart success. Her husband was the actor Horst Jüssen.
Martin's husband is a pop singer and composer. His greatest success was as lead singer of the title for miles.
Jürgen Renfordt is a pop singer and composer from Wetter (Ruhr), whose career began with this participation. Today, he is also a well-known television and radio host at the WDR
Leash man was a German music group that played together since 1971. In 1980 she had her first major success with full steam radio.
The Hornettes - among them sang Linda G. Thompson, former singer with the Les Humphries Singers and Silver Convention. She has appeared at the time of preliminary decision in 1979 in a duet with Jerry Rix and became Eleventh. Through her retirement from Silver Convention by the end of 1976, they did not occur with Silver Convention at the Euro Vision Song Contest 1977 in Wembley.
Peter Cornelius is an Austrian singer-songwriter and guitarist. It was discovered in 1973 in the ORF program show a chance, and was followed, among others, an ensemble member in the musical Hair. His first minor success outside of Austria was the title of the coffee is ready, which was composed by Michael Cretu. His breakthrough in Germany he had the end of 1981 with the title you excuse me, i characterize di (8th place in the German charts )
Janz
Scoreboard of the preliminary decision
The scores of the intermediate results in the following percentages are given in the following table:
Round 1: 11.56 % of the vote, Round 2 at 25.05%, Round 3: 51.06 %.