Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988

The German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest 1988 took place A Song for Dublin under the title.

By sending introduced for the first time Jenny Jürgens, daughter of Udo Jürgens.

System

Bayerischer Rundfunk retained the mode of previous years due to multiple successes.

A thirteen- member jury of professionals from the entertainment industry chose from 566 submissions from the twenty semi-finalists, from which the radio listeners chose the twelve finalists.

After completion of the preliminary round, which took place this year, five weeks before the Euro Vision Song Contest, 519 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.

1988 were given Unlike the previous year, the final standings of the individual performer known.

Scoreboard of the preliminary decision

The scores of the intermediate results in the following percentages are given in the following table:

Round 1: 15.69 percent of the vote, Round 2: 48.04 percent