Reise nach Jerusalem – Kudüs'e seyahat

Journey to Jerusalem - Kudüs'e seyahat ("Journey to Jerusalem ") was the contribution of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Euro Vision Song Contest 1999, sung by the group Sürpriz. Was composed the song of Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger. Cihan Özden and Deniz Filizmen ( both members of the group Sürpriz ) wrote the lyrics. For Seal, it was the fourteenth participation, for Meinunger the twelfth member of the euro vision song contest.

However, the song about a back door for the Euro Vision Song Contest had to qualify as the real winner of the German preliminary decision, the song Hear the children simply to the singer Corinna May, already in 1997 in an English version as a promo CD with the circulation figure was published of 500. So the title of the NDR was disqualified and Sürpriz re-nominated.

So the group Sürpriz entered into Jerusalem, where the Euro Vision Song Contest was held at. The group, whose name is Turkish and means surprise, consisted exclusively of German Turks, and was specially founded for participation at the preliminary. Therefore, they sang Journey to Jerusalem - Kudüs'e seyahat also in Turkish. The rest of the text is in German and English; the live version also includes a chorus in Hebrew.

Success at the Euro Vision Song Contest

In the charts did not make the play. With 140 points - including five maximum ratings ( 12 points) from Turkey, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Israel - took it behind Take Me to Your Heaven the Swede Charlotte Nilsson and All out of Luck of the Icelandic singer Selma to third place among 23 songs.

Content

The song is a song of content about world peace ( = We Walk hand in hand to this Peaceful Country " We walk hand in hand in this peaceful country " ), but there is also a verse about the actual game of musical chairs.