The Voice of Germany (season 1) is a German reality talent show that premiered on 24 November 2011 on ProSieben and Sat.1. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. It is part of an international series.
Development, production and marketing
In April 2011, ProSieben announced its intention to bring an adaptation of The Voice of Holland to the Germany. In July 2011, ProSieben began announcements of the coaches/judges for the series. First to sign on were Nena and Xavier Naidoo. Rea Garvey and "Boss Burns" (Alec Völkel) & "Hoss Power" (Sascha Vollmer) came on board in late August 2011.
Stefan Gödde is the show's host. Doris Golpashin is hosting backstage special for the official website. Season 1 premiered on ProSieben on 24 November 2011. RTL took on a ratings fight when they programmed their successful talent show Das Supertalent against newcomer The Voice of Germany. While RTL could win the battle overall with 5.83 million viewers (18.1% market share) compared to The Voice of Germany's 3.89 million viewers (12.4% market share), the ProSieben show won among the target group 14–49 with 3.06 million viewers (23.8% market share) against Das Supertalent's 2.99 million viewers (22.8% market share). The following day, The Voice of Germany aired on Sat.1 for the first time.
On Sat.1, The Voice of Germany extended its viewers to 4.36 million viewers (14.3% market share) overall and in the target group 14-49 the viewers were almost the same with 3.05 million viewers (26.6% market share).
The show saw a significant drop in ratings during the live shows. The final was watched by 4.01 million viewers, a market share of 12.9%.
The first phase: The Blind Auditions
The castings to the first season took place in June and July, 2011, however, were not shown on television. About 150 the singers – more than three-quarters of them with experience of the stage – were invited to the Blind Auditions. These were taped at the end of August and at the beginning of September, 2011 in Berlin and were emitted from 24 November to 9 December 2011 in six telecasts. The jury chose 64 candidates in the second phase, in the Nena and Rea Garvey with 16, The BossHoss with 15 and Xavier Naidoo with 17 candidates entered.
Key
Episode 1: November 24, 2011
OrderContestantSongCoaches' and Contestants' Choices Nena Xavier Naidoo Rea Garvey The BossHoss 1Dominic Sanz"Use Somebody" — — 2Nina Kutschera"Set Fire to the Rain" — 3Sebastian Deyle"Ich Glaube" — — — — 4Verena Putzer"Just Hold Me" — — — 5Percival Duke"Drops of Jupiter" — — 6Sarah Keller"Torn" — — — — 7Pamela Falcon"Natural Woman" 8Vera Luttenberger"Fuckin' Perfect" — — 9Orry Jackson"DJ's Got Us Fallin' In Love" — — — — 10Charles Simmons"Love's Divine" 11Kim Loy"All Summer Long" — — — — 12Josef Prasil"Hey There Delilah" — 13Sharron Levy"Fallin'" — — 14Rino Galiano"You Give Me Something" —
Episode 2: November 25, 2011
OrderContestantSongCoaches' and Contestants' Choices Nena Xavier Naidoo Rea Garvey The BossHoss 1Ramona Nerra"American Boy" — — — 2Benny Martell"Nur In Meinem Kopf" — — 3Lelia Berrada-Gouzi"Russian Roulette" — — — — 4Max Giesinger"Sex On Fire" 5Pierre Humphrey"Respect" — — — — 6Giovanni Costello"If You Don't Know Me By Now" — — — 7Alicia Emmi Berg"California King Bed" — — — 8Josie-Claire Bürkle"Love Story" — — — — 9Achan Malonda"Irgendwas Bleibt" — — — — 10Mikey Cox"Stand By Me" — — — 11Heiko Schmidt"Nur Noch Kurz Die Welt Retten" — — 12Butch Williams"Crazy" — 13Andy Hermes"Hollywood Hills" — — — 14Patricia Medeen"Halo" —
Episode 3: December 1, 2011
OrderContestantSongCoaches' and Contestants' Choices Nena Xavier Naidoo Rea Garvey The BossHoss 1Colin "C." Jay"Crazy" — 2Dilan Koshnaw"A Night Like This" — — — 3Marc Barthel"Grenade" — — — — 4Kim Sanders"You Gotta Be" 5Rüdiger Skoczowsky"Roxanne" — — — 6Laura Martin"Heavy Cross" — — — 7Jean Pierre Derinbay"Just The Way You Are" — — — — 8Behnam Moghaddam"Wicked Game" — — — 9Markus Nendse"Halt Dich An Mir Fest" — — — — 10Shari Fanio"Mercy" — — 11Arcangelo Vigneri"I'm Yours" — — 12Vini Gomez"Chasing Cars" — — 13Sabrina Ziegler"Wort" — — — — 14Lise Martine Weller"Use Somebody" — — — 15Mic Donet"Apologize"
Episode 4: December 2, 2011
OrderContestantSongCoaches' and Contestants' Choices Nena Xavier Naidoo Rea Garvey The BossHoss 1Yasmina Hunziger"Listen" — — 2Bulge Bolat"Russian Roulette" — — — — 3Benny Fiedler"Forget You" — — — 4Katja Friedenberg"Just Hold Me" — — 5Raffa Shira Banggard"Bilder Von Dir" — — — — 6Tessa Sunniva"Bubbly" — — — 7Ole Feddersen"I Coast a Dollar" — — — 8Vicky & Laura Maas"Need You Now" — — — 9Tom Croel"Geboren Um Zu Leben" — — — — 10Charlie Waldschmidt"A Night Like This" — — 11Natascha Götz"Wenn Das Liebe Ist" — — — — 12Fanel Cornelius"Still Got the Blues" — — — 13Elen Wendt"Time After Time"
Episode 5: December 8, 2011
OrderContestantSongCoaches' and Contestants' Choices Nena Xavier Naidoo Rea Garvey The BossHoss 1Katja Georgos-Spanos"Heavy Cross" — — 2Ken Miyao"Price Tag" — — 3Erni & Lela"Sober" — — — 4Oliver Nagy"Stay The Night" — — — — 5Tiziana Belmonte"Das Beste" — — — 6Sahar Haluzy"I'm Yours" — — — 7Ramona Rotstich"Just a Girl" — — 8Michael Schulte"Set Fire to the Rain" — — — 9Jeannette Dalia Curta"If You Don't Know Me By Now" — — 10Leslie Jost"Price Tag" — — — 11Carl-Marcel Eckle"Freaky Like Me" — — — — 12Bobby Boobs'n"Grenade" — — 13Jessy Lapp"Nur In Meinem Kopf" — — — — 14Bennie McMillan"Forget You" — — — 15Ivy Quainoo"American Boy" —
Episode 6: December 9, 2011
OrderContestantSongCoaches' and Contestants' Choices Nena Xavier Naidoo Rea Garvey The BossHoss 1Lena Sicks"Love Story" — — 2Hermann Muralev"Halt Dich An Mir Fest" — — — 3Marijana Vuckovic"California King Bed" — — 4Caroline Winter"Almost Lover" — — — — 5Luna Debole"You Had Me" — — — — 6Jasmin Graf"Because of You" — — — 7Julius Olschowski"Still" — — 8Natascha Bell"What's Up?" — — — 9Lukas Kempf"Somewhere Only We Know" — — — 10Annika Yasemin Röken"Rehab" — — — 11Stefan Meyer"Angels" — — — — 12Rola Hinterbichler"Wenn Das Liebe Ist" — — — 13Laura Bellon"Nobody Knows" — — 14Monique Wragg"Mercy" — — — 15Stefan Zielasko"Nur In Meinem Kopf"
The second phase: The Battle Rounds The Battle Round was taped in September, 2011 in Berlin and is emitted from the 15th to the 23rd of December in four telecasts. – zweitletzter Absatz After the end of the Battles every coach had only six candidates, for the rest. Two teams, Xavier and The BossHoss, had to organise a Trio-Battle on account of her odd candidate number. With these The BossHoss were allowed to do two candidates to wide decrees, Xavier, nevertheless, only one. Remained 24 candidates entered in the live shows.
– Battle Winner
Episode 7: December 15, 2011 Order Coach Contestant Contestant Contestant Song 1. The BossHoss Ramona Nerra Butch Williams "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" 2. Nena Kim Sanders Alicia Emmi Berg "Only Girl (In the World)" 3. Xavier Naidoo Giovanni Costello Rüdiger Skoczowsky "What A Wonderful World" 4. The BossHoss Ole Feddersen Bennie McMillan Andy Hermes "Valerie" 5. Rea Garvey Laura und Vicky Maas Michael Schulte "Falling Slowly" 6. Nena Katja Georgas-Spanos Sharron Levy "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" 7. Rea Garvey Pamela Falcon Percival Duke "Purple Rain"
Episode 8: December 16, 2011 Order Coach Contestant Contestant Song 1. Nena Nina Kutschera Leslie Jost "Superstition" 2. Xavier Naidoo Julius Olschowski Katja Friedenberg "Krieger des Lichts" 3. The BossHoss Vera Luttenberger Ramona Rotstich "Love Long Distance" 4. Xavier Naidoo Rino Galiano Stefan Zielasko "Jesus to a Child" 5. Rea Garvey Heiko Schmidt Lena Sicks "Eisberg" 6. The BossHoss Ivy Quainoo Annika Yasemin Röken "Viva la Vida" 7. Nena Marijana Vuckovic Lisa Martine Weller "Another Way to Die" 8. Rea Garvey Arcangelo Vigneri Charles Simmons "Everybody Hurts"
Episode 9: December 22, 2011 Order Coach Contestant Contestant Contestant Song 1. Xavier Naidoo Vini Gomes Dominic Sanz "Dance with Somebody" 2. The BossHoss C. Jay Charlie Waldschmidt "Kids" 3. Nena Fanel Cornelius Behnam Moghaddam "Tears in Heaven" 4. Rea Garvey Ken Miyao Benny Fiedler "Wonderful Life" 5. The BossHoss Shari Fanio Natascha Bell "You've Got the Love" 6. Xavier Naidoo Laura Martin Max Giesinger "Radioactive" 7. Rea Garvey Josef Prasil Mikey Cyrox "New Shoes" 8. Nena Yasmina Hunzinger Ernie & Lela "Bring Me to Life" 9. Xavier Naidoo Mic Donet Patricia Meeden Dilan Koshnaw "Man's World"
Episode 10: December 23, 2011 Order Coach Contestant Contestant Song 1. Xavier Naidoo Benny Martell Elen Wendt "Dieses Leben" 2. Rea Garvey Tiziana Belmonte Rola Mardirose Hinterbichler "Little Numbers" 3. Nena Tessa Sunniva Verena Putzer "She Will Be Loved" 4. Rea Garvey Jasmin Graf Monique Wragg "Shut Up and Drive" 5. BossHoss Sahar Haluzy Lukas Kempf "Champagne Supernova" 6. Nena Hermann Muralev Bobby Bobbs'n "Allein, Allein" 7. Xavier Naidoo Laura Bellon Jeanette Dalia Curta "Survivor"
Sing-off
Each coach nominate 5 singers from their group to advance to the live shows. The 3 remaining singers per group will do a sing-off for the remaining live show spot.
– Sing-off Winner
Coach Contestant Contestant Contestant Nena Bobby Bobbs'n Tessa Sunniva Yasmina Hunzinger Xavier Naidoo Benny Martell Max Giesinger Laura Bellon Rea Garvey Josef Prasil Tiziana Belmonte Jasmin Graf The BossHoss Vera Luttenberger Bennie McMillan Natascha Bell
The third phase: The Live Shows The seven live shows will take place between the 5th of January and the 10th of February, 2012. The first show is broadcast by ProSieben on Thursday 5th and the other six by Sat.1 every Friday evening. During the first show the contestants of Xavier Naidoo and The Boss Hoss perform. During the second show the contestants who sing are from Teams Nena and Rea Garvey. After each of these shows, in each team, two contestants are automatically sent to the next round thanks to the votes of the audience, two are voted off and two are chosen by their coaches to stay. After the first two shows, only 16 singers will remain and perform in the third (for teams Boss Hoss and Xavier Naidoo) or fourth (for teams Nena and Rea Garvey) live show. The third show will air on Jan 13 and the fourth, on Jan 20. During the fifth show, on Jan 27, the 12 remaining contestants will perform (3 from each team). During the halffinale, on Feb 3, the 8 remaining contestants will perform (2 from each team). During the finale, on Feb 10, the 4 remaining contestants will perform (1 from each team).
Episode 11: January 5, 2012 Team Xavier and Team BossHoss performed. Date: 5 January 2012 Episode: 11 Channel: ProSieben Team: Team Xavier, Team BossHoss Celebrity Performer: Snow Patrol with "This Isn't Everything You Are"
Performance Order Coach Competition Performances Contestant Song Result 1 Xavier Naidoo Rüdiger Skoczowsky "Without You" Eliminated 2 The BossHoss C. Jay "Let's Stay Together" Eliminated 3 Xavier Naidoo Dominic Sanz "With or Without You" Eliminated 4 The BossHoss Bennie McMillan "Marry You" The BossHoss's Vote 5 Xavier Naidoo Rino Galiano "How Deep Is Your Love" Public Vote 6 The BossHoss Ivy Quainoo "Toxic" Public Vote 7 Xavier Naidoo Mic Donet "Ain't No Sunshine" Xavier Naidoo's Vote 8 The BossHoss Sahar Haluzy "Teenage Dirtbag" Eliminated 9 Xavier Naidoo Katja Friedenberg "Turning Tables" Xavier Naidoo's Vote 10 The BossHoss Ole Feddersen "No Diggity" The BossHoss's Vote 11 Xavier Naidoo Max Giesinger "Fix You" Public Vote 12 The BossHoss Ramona Nerra "Firework" Public Vote
Non-competition performances Performance Order Performers Song 1 The Voice Judges Nena, Xavier Naidoo, Rea Garvey and The BossHoss "99 Luftballons" 2 Xavier Naidoo and his Team "Ich kenne nichts (das so schön ist wie du)" 3 Snow Patrol "This Isn't Everything You Are"
Episode 12: January 6, 2012 Team Nena and Team Rea performed. Date: 6 January 2012 Episode: 12