Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with the song "", composed by Alfons Weindorf, with lyrics by Helmut Frey, and performed by six-member group Atlantis 2000. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, (SFB), selected their entry through a national final.

Before Eurovision

The national final was held on 21 March 1991 at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin, and hosted by Hape Kerkeling. Ten songs took part and the winner was chosen by a panel of 1,000 people, selected as providing a representative cross-section of the German public, who were telephoned and asked to choose their favourite song. One of the other participants was Cindy Berger, who had represented Germany at Eurovision in as half of duo Cindy & Bert.

The final was broadcast on and on former DDR radio station Radio aktuell.

+ Final – 21 March 1991 Artist Song Songwriter(s) Percentage Place 1 Tanja Jonak"Hand in Hand in die Sonne" Jean Frankfurter, Irma Holder 9.5% 6 2 Susan Schubert "Du bist mehr" Willy Klüter, Anna Rubach 10.8% 5 3 Cindy Berger "Nie allein" Rainer Pietsch, Werne Schüler 6.4% 7 4 Barbara Cassy "Hautnah ist nicht nah genug" Luis Rodríguez, Peter Zentner 14.1% 4 5 Connie & Komplizen "Jedesmal" Dirk Schiller 2.8% 10 6 Vox & Vox "Tief unter der Haut" Andreas Lebbing 14.9% 3 7 Stefan de Wolff "Herz an Herz" Stefan de Wolff, Andreas Bärtles 3.7% 9 8 Ziad & Sandrina "Die Wächter der Erde" Walter J.W. Schmid, Alf Schwegeler 15.2% 2 9 Atlantis 2000 "Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben" Alfons Weindorf, Helmut Frey 18.5% 1 10 Strandjungs "Junge Herzen" Marco Junger, Bernd Morawitz 4.1% 8

At Eurovision On the night of the final Atlantis 2000 performed 17th in the running order, following and preceding . At the close of voting "" had received only 10 points, placing Germany 18th of the 22 entries, the country's lowest Eurovision finish to that date. The German jury awarded its 12 points to contest winners .

The contest was broadcast on (with commentary by Max Schautzer) and on SSVC Television. The show was watched by 6.28 million viewers in Germany.

Voting

+ Points awarded to Germany Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

+ Points awarded by Germany Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

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