The eleventh season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar was broadcast on German channel RTL from 8 January to 3 May 2014. The winner received a recording contract with Universal Music Group and €500,000. Participants had to be between 16 and 30 years old and could audition in 30 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Kenneth "Kay One" Glöckler, Mieze Katz and Marianne Rosenberg served as the judges.
For the second year in a row, the season featured a female final top two and produced a female "superstar" for the third time in the show's history. Aneta Sablik was announced as the winner on 3 May 2014.
History On 13 March 2013, RTL announced that there will be an eleventh season. The judges from the previous season, with the exception of Dieter Bohlen, were replaced by rapper Kay One, singer Mieze Katz of the band MIA., and Schlager singer Marianne Rosenberg. Nazan Eckes returned as the host of the eleventh season, however, without Raúl Richter. Bill and Tom Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel and Mateo from Culcha Candela left after the completion of season 10. The season started on Wednesday, 8 January 2014, on RTL.
The season's headline was "Kandidaten an die Macht!" ("Candidates, take over!"). Therefore, it was the first season that the contestants were completely in charge of their song choice and their stage performance. This also enabled them to choose an original song.
The season premiere attracted 2.70 million viewers, which makes it the least-watched season premiere in the history of Deutschland sucht den Superstar. However, ratings improved up to 3.33 million viewers by episode three, which made it the most-watched episode of the season within the demographics between ages 14–49.
"Re-Recall" The top 30, which consisted of 15 female and 15 male contestants, were brought to Cuba for the further competition. In the top 20 round, the judges chose the top 10 to compete in the live shows. Five of the ten eliminated contestants were given a wild card by the judges and made available for public voting. The two with the highest votes by the viewers will be joining the top 10.
Top 15
Females: Aneta Sablik, 23 Anita Latifi, 18 Elif Batman, 18 Maxi Perez-Bursian, 20 Meltem Acikgöz, 24 Melody Haase, 20 Sophia Akkara, 20 Vanessa Valeria Rojas, 23 Yasemin Kocak, 21
Males:
Allesandro Di Lella, 21 Angelo Bugday, 22 Christopher Schnell, 25 Daniel Ceylan, 28 Enrico von Krawczynski, 19 Richard Schlögl, 25
"Live-Challenge-Shows" The Mottoshows (theme shows) of the previous seasons were replaced by six Live-Challenge-Shows. In each show, two acts get eliminated. After the final, RTL revealed the voting results for each show.
Color key Contestant received the fewest votes and was eliminated Contestant was in the bottom two or three Contestant received the most votes from the public Contestant was announced as the season's winner
Top 12 - "Live-Challenge-Show: Dance" Original airdate: 29 March 2014 In the first live show, the top 12 was split into two groups of six. In each group, one act had to leave the show. The challenge of the first live-challenge show required the contestant to include a dance routine into their performance.
Order Contestant Song Result Voting results 1 Alessandro Di Lella "Impossible" Bottom 2 8.8% (5/6) 2 Vanessa Valera-Rojas "Next to Me" Safe 19.2% (2/6) 3 Daniel Ceylan "All Night Long (All Night)" Safe 15.8% (4/6) 4 Sophia Akkara "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" Eliminated 8.3% (6/6) 5 Enrico von Krawczynski "Beauty and the Beat" Safe 16.9% (3/6) 6 Elif Batman "Happy" Safe 31.1% (1/6) 7 Aneta Sablik "I Want You Back" Safe 24.2% (1/6) 8 Richard Schlögl "Ich lass für dich das Licht an" Bottom 2 12.3% (5/6) 9 Meltem Acikgöz "Skyscraper" Safe 16.7% (4/6) 10 Christopher Schnell "Dear Darlin'" Safe 19.6% (2/6) 11 Larissa Melody Haase "Addicted to You" Eliminated 10.4% (6/6) 12 Yasemin Kocak "Rather Be" Safe 16.8% (3/6) Group performance: "Timber"
Top 10 - "Live-Challenge-Show: Band Night" Original airdate: 5 April 2014 The challenge of the second live-challenge show was the emphasis on the vocals, meaning each performance featured a break to put focus on the contestants' vocal performance.
Order Contestant Song Result Voting results 1 Aneta Sablik "Ain't No Other Man" Safe 14.9% (1/10) 2 Daniel Ceylan "End of the Road" Bottom 4 8.2% (7/10) 3 Yasemin Kocak "Free" Bottom 3 8.2% (8/10) 4 Enrico von Krawczynski "Story of My Life" Safe 8.4% (6/10) 5 Meltem Acikgöz "Your Song" Safe 10.6% (4/10) 6 Alessandro Di Lella "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time" Eliminated 6.9% (10/10) 7 Vanessa Valera Rojas "There You'll Be" Eliminated 7.1% (9/10) 8 Richard Schlögl "Demons" Safe 9.2% (5/10) 9 Elif Batman "Şımarık" Safe 12.1% (3/10) 10 Christopher Schnell "Right Here Waiting" Safe 14.4% (2/10)
Top 8 - "Live-Challenge-Show: Duets" Original airdate: 12 April 2014 The challenge of the third live-challenge show required the contestants to pick one of their competitors for a duet. Only one person of the winning duet-team was able to win the live challenge price.
Order Contestant Song Result Voting results 1 Meltem Acikgöz & Enrico von Krawczynski "Higher" 2 Elif Batman & Christopher Schnell "Say Something" 3 Yasemin Kocak & Daniel Ceylan "I'm Your Angel" 4 Aneta Sablik & Richard Schlögl "California King Bed" 5 Enrico von Krawczynski "Boyfriend" Eliminated 8.2% (8/8) 6 Meltem Acikgöz "Footprints in the Sand" Safe 13.8% (3/8) 7 Christoper Schnell "Hero" Safe 14.5% (2/8) 8 Elif Batman "Son of a Preacher Man" Eliminated 10.4% (7/8) 9 Daniel Ceylan "Be Alright" Bottom 3 11.1% (6/8) 10 Yasemin Kocak "When Love Takes Over" Bottom 4 11.3% (5/8) 11 Richard Schlögl "Eisberg" Safe 13.4% (4/8) 12 Aneta Sablik "Dirty Diana" Safe 17.2% (1/8)
Top 6 - "Live-Challenge-Show: Do Your Own Thing!" Original airdate: 19 April 2014 The challenge of the fourth live-challenge show was to pick a song and make it their own.
Order Contestant First Song Order New version song Result Voting results 1 Christopher Schnell "When I Was Your Man" 7 "She's Like the Wind" Eliminated 14.5% (5/6) 2 Meltem Acikgöz "Burn" 8 "Gangnam Style" Bottom 3 15.3% (4/6) 3 Richard Schlögl "Stark" 9 "Use Somebody" Safe 17.8% (2/6) 4 Yasemin Kocak "I Turn to You" 10 "Ain't Nobody" Eliminated 14.0% (6/6) 5 Daniel Ceylan "Bitte Hör' Nicht Auf Zu Träumen" 11 "(Simply) The Best" Bottom 4 16.7% (3/6) 6 Aneta Sablik "I'm Outta Love" 12 "I Need Your Love" Safe 21.7% (1/6)
Top 4 - "Live-Challenge-Show: Semi-Final" Instead of a double elimination the semi-final featured an elimination of only one contestant, leaving three contestant in the final. The challenge of the fifth live-challenge show was staging the beginning of one of their songs by themselves. Original airdate: 26 April 2014 Order Contestant First Song Order Challenge song Result Voting results 1 Meltem Acikgöz "Just Give Me a Reason" 5 "My Immortal" Safe 25.4% (2/4) 2 Daniel Ceylan "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" 6 "For You" Bottom 2 23.2% (3/4) 3 Aneta Sablik "Wake Me Up" 7 "Survivor" Safe 30.8% (1/4) 4 Richard Schlögl "Halt dich an mir fest" 8 "Lila Wolken" Eliminated 20.7% (4/4)
Top 3 - "Live-Challenge-Show: Final" Original airdate: 3 May 2014 It was announced that each contestant had to write their winner's single by themselves. After the first performance one of the finalists will be eliminated and the remaining two contestants will compete for the crone.
Round 1 Order Contestant Contestants' Choice Song Result Voting results 1 Meltem Acikgöz "Dark Horse" Bottom 2 29.3% (2/3) 2 Daniel Ceylan "I Won't Let You Go" Eliminated 27.1% (3/3) 3 Aneta Sablik "If I Were a Boy" Safe 43.6% (1/3)
Round 2 Order Contestant Highlight Song Order Winner's Single Result Voting result 1 Meltem Acikgöz "Skyscraper" 3 "Explosion In My Heart" Runner-Up 42.1% (2/2) 2 Aneta Sablik "Dirty Diana" 4 "The One" Winner 57.9% (1/2) Daniel Ceylan would have performed "(Simply) The Best" and "Someone Out There to Love".
Winner of the challenges Challenge Date Winner Price Task Dance-Challenge 29. March Sophia Akkara Dance sequence Band Night 5. April Meltem Acikgöz Vocal emphasis Duets 12. April Aneta Sablik Duet Do Your Own Thing! 19. April Daniel Ceylan New interpretation of a song Staging your song 26. April Meltem Acikgöz Staging of the beginning of their song Final 3. Mai Aneta Sablik Car, music contract, and €500,000 Write their winner's single by themselves The winner of the last challenge was announced by the public and not by the judges like the previous challenges.
Elimination chart Females Males Top 15 Top 12 Winner
Did not perform Safe Most votesSafe First Safe Last Eliminated
Stage:FinalsWeek:3/294/54/124/194/265/3Wild CardRound 1Round 2Round 1Round 2PlaceContestantResult 1 Aneta Sablik 1st24.2%1st14.9%1st17.2%1st21.7%1st30.8%1st43.6%Winner57.9% 2 Meltem Acikgöz 4th16.7% 4th10.6% 3rd13.8%4th15.3% 2nd25.4%2nd29.3%Runner-up42.1% 3 Daniel Ceylan 4th15.8%7th8.2%6th11.1%3rd16.7%3rd23.2%3rd27.1% 4 Richard Schlögl 5th12.3% 5th9.2% 4th13.4% 2nd17.8%4th20.7% 5 Christopher Schnell 2nd19.6% 2nd14.4% 2nd14.5%5th14.5% 6 Yasemin Kocak Top 12 3rd16.8%8th8.2%5th11.3%6th14.0% 7 Elif Batman Top 121st31.1% 3rd12.1%7th10.4% 8 Enrico von Krawczynski 3rd16.9% 6th8.4%8th8.2% 9 Vanessa Valera-Rojas 2nd19.2%9th7.1% 10 Alessandro Di Lella 5th8.8% 10th6.9% 11-12 Larissa Melody Haase 6th10.4% Sophia Akkara 6th8.3%13-15 Angelo BugdayElim Maxi Perez-Bursian Anita Latifi
References
External links Official website