Season three of Big Brother Germany lasted from 27 January 2001 to 12 May 2001 and was aired on RTL and RTL Zwei.
Season summary After a very successful second season, the producers did not hesitate to start the third installment of the show during an already-scarce month after the end of the second season. The basic format of the show was maintained; however, the producers introduced three twists in hope of keeping the excitement up. The first was that Coco and Katja, a dating couple, entered the house together, marking the first time that two housemates knew each other before the show (though several contestants met at auditions in former seasons). The second was that every housemate had now three nomination points to give out: two for the least liked and one for the second-least liked person in the house. The same changes were made to the viewer's nominations. The third and largest twist, however, was announced only after the twelve original housemates entered the house on launch night: it was revealed that trained actress Silvia was a mole working for Big Brother. As a result of the heavy number of voluntary exits during season 2, the contestants had to pay a deposit before entering the house and would receive 1.000 euro per week in their stay in the house. However, they would only get the deposit and the money they earned when they get evicted.
Due to the lack of diversity and conflicts between the housemates, who had mostly been considered "boring" and "dull" by audiences, the producers decided to make an offer of 100.000 DM to the person that would voluntary walk on the same night. After almost all the housemates wanted to take the offer, Anja walked away with the money. On the same night Big Brother revealed that there would be a mole in the house left it to everyone's speculation who that person was. Some days later Big Brother asked the Mole to reveal her identity to the other housemates and to leave the house afterwards. As replacements for Anja and Silvia, blonde bombshell Ana-Marija and Thomas, who was sitting in a wheelchair and was chosen by the viewers to move in, entered the house with none of them having any huge impact on the show either.
After 106 Days, Karina Schreiber won the season, just like the first two winners John Milz and Alida Kurras, Schreiber was raised in the GDR and was considered as the nicest person in the house and was never nominated.
The third season was a huge disappointment in terms of ratings and entertainment and saw the show being off the screen for more than two years with RTL never airing a Big Brother show anymore.
Housemates
Name Age on entry Hometown Day entered Day exited Result Karina Schreiber 26 Erfurt 1 106 Medy Hussein 36 Berlin 1 106 Wulf Piazolo 26 Freiburg 1 106 Tajana Dietrich 28 Bregenz, Austria 1 104 Cornelius "Coco" Schmitz 25 Essen 1 102 Thomas Hoffmarck 34 Lünen 57 99 Katja Frase 24 Essen 1 85 Ana-Marija Sokolović 27 Stuttgart 50 71 Huy Hoang Nguyen 24 Hattingen 1 57 Silvia Leder 29 Vienna, Austria 1 50Mole Anja Kerwer 27 Bottrop 1 46 Michael Nagel 23 Cologne 1 43 Jörg Heidt 32 Bremerhaven 1 29 Nicole Bartsch 25 Duisburg 1 15
Nominations table Week 2Week 4Week 6Week 8Week 10Week 12Week 14Week 15FinalNomination pointsreceived Karina JörgNicole JörgMedy TajanaWulf WulfTajana ThomasAna-Marija KatjaWulf WulfThomas NonominationsWinner(Day 106) 10 Medy HuyKarina AnjaHuy AnjaHuy HuyTajana Ana-MarijaThomas ThomasKarina TajanaKarina NonominationsRunner-up(Day 106) 8 Wulf MichaelSilvia MichaelSilvia MichaelMedy HuyKarina Ana-MarijaKarina ThomasKarina ThomasKarina NonominationsThird place(Day 106) 14 Tajana JörgNicole HuyKarina MichaelHuy HuyWulf ThomasCoco MedyWulf MedyCoco NonominationsEvicted(Day 104) 22 Coco MichaelJörg JörgMichael SilviaTajana WulfKarina Ana-MarijaThomas ThomasTajana Thomas Tajana NonominationsEvicted(Day 102) 4 ThomasNot inHouse Ana-MarijaTajana TajanaWulf TajanaWulf Evicted(Day 99) 25 Katja JörgMichael JörgMichael MichaelTajana HuyMedy Ana-MarijaThomas ThomasKarina Evicted(Day 85) 14 Ana-MarijaNot inHouse ThomasKatja Evicted(Day 71) 11 Huy NicoleMedy JörgTajana TajanaWulf KatjaTajana Evicted(Day 57) 16 Silvia NicoleWulf KatjaMichael AnjaMichael Walked(Day 50) 15 Anja JörgNicole JörgSilvia SilviaTajana Walked(Day 46) 11 Michael SilviaJörg SilviaJörg SilviaKatja Evicted(Day 43) 24 Jörg AnjaHuy AnjaMichael Evicted(Day 29) 22 Nicole SilviaTajana Evicted(Day 15) 8 PublicnominationsMichael49.58%Nicole11.80% Michael34.12%Jörg12.89% Michael33.69%Anja31.29% Katja57.55%Tajana8.89% Katja63.09%Coco8.81% Katja61.18%Thomas19.00% ThomasCoconone Nominated Jörg,Nicole Jörg,Michael Michael,Tajana Huy,Wulf Ana-Marija,Thomas Thomas,Katja Thomas,Tajana Coco,Karina,Medy,Tajana,Wulf Medy,Karina,Wulf Walkednone Anja,SilvianoneEvictedNicole70.93%to evictJörg50.46%to evictMichael64.55%to evictHuy62.22%to evictAna-Marija51.36%to evictKatja75.90%to evictThomas78.89%to evictCoco47%(out of 5)to evictWulf(out of 3)Medy44.84%Tajana31%(out of 4)to evictKarina55.16%to win
See also Main Article about the show
External links Housemate pictures, Nominations and Evictions All profiles if the housemates season 3 (German)