The Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 was the first edition of the annual Bundesvision Song Contest musical event. The contest was held on 12 February 2005 at the König Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The contest was hosted by Stefan Raab, Annette Frier, and Oliver Pocher in the green room. It was the first Germany-wide music competition in this format.

Origins The concept of the Bundesvision Song Contest was first introduced during episode 657 of the late-night television comedy talk show TV total by presenter Stefan Raab on 20 December 2004. The structure of the Bundesvision Song Contest is very similar to that of the Eurovision Song Contest, held among European countries; the Bundesvision Song Contest uses the sixteen states of Germany, only songs with (at least partially) German-speaking text were allowed, Stefan Raab also announced that the winning state would host the Bundesvision Song Contest 2006.

From 17 January 2005, the participants and their states were presented on TV total, for four weeks a themed evening was organised for each artist, in addition to a discussion with Raab about the chosen song.

Because suitable representatives were not found for all states, some artists represented states, to which they had no or only a very indirect tie, earning some criticism of the contest, for example, Cologne based band Klee representing Saarland, and not North Rhine-Westphalia.

Contest overview The winner of the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 was alternative pop band Juli with the song "Geile Zeit", representing Hessen. In second place were Fettes Brot representing Schleswig-Holstein, and third place to Sido with representing Berlin.

14 of the 16 states awarded themselves the maximum of 12 points, with North Rhine-Westphalia, and Rhineland-Palatinate, awarding themselves 10 points each.

The contest was broadcast by ProSieben and watched by 3.23 million people (11% market share). In the 14-49 age range 2.55 million people watched the contest (21.2% market share).

Results

+Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 State Artist Song English translation Radio station Points Place 1 Mamadee feat. Gentleman "Lass los" Let go 10 15 2 Samy Deluxe "Generation" — 44 9 3 Sandy feat. "Unexpected" — bigFM 10 15 4 Lukas Hilbert feat. Trina "Kommt meine Liebe nicht bei dir an" Does my love not reach to you 31 11 5 Slut "Why Pourquoi (I Think I Like You)" — 17 12 6 Virginia Jetzt! "Wahre Liebe" True love 54 8 7 Fettes Brot "Emanuela" — delta radio 130 2 8 Klee "Gold" — 37 10 9 De Randfichten "Jetzt geht die Party richtig los" Now the party really starts 71 6 10 Apocalyptica feat. Marta Jandová "Wie weit" How far bigFM 77 5 11 "Mamacita" — 15 13 12 Juli "Geile Zeit" Great time 159 1 13 Clueso "Kein Bock zu gehen" No desire to go 63 7 14 Sido with "Mama ist stolz" Mum is proud Kiss FM 113 3 15 Deichkind "Electric Super Dance Band" — 12 14 16 Mousse T. with "Right About Now" — radio ffn 85 4

Scoreboard Voting results North Rhine-Westphalia 10 10 Hamburg 44 1 12 2 5 2 8 4 4 1 1 2 2 Rhineland-Palatinate 10 10 Bremen 31 2 1 12 3 1 1 1 3 1 6 Bavaria 17 1 1 12 3 Brandenburg 54 1 12 3 6 2 5 2 4 8 6 5 Schleswig-Holstein 130 8 10 8 8 8 6 12 8 8 8 6 10 7 7 8 8 Saarland 37 2 3 1 4 12 2 2 3 2 5 1 Saxony 71 5 4 4 7 1 3 12 3 8 6 8 2 5 3 Baden-Württemberg 77 4 6 5 4 5 4 5 5 5 12 3 5 6 4 4 Saxony-Anhalt 15 3 12 Hesse 159 12 8 12 7 10 8 10 10 10 10 10 12 10 10 10 10 Thuringia 63 3 5 3 2 3 5 2 2 4 5 4 4 12 6 3 Berlin 113 7 4 6 6 7 10 6 7 7 7 7 8 5 12 7 7 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 12 12 Lower Saxony 85 6 7 7 10 6 2 7 6 3 6 1 7 1 4 12

Spokespersons

North Rhine-Westphalia – Tobias Häusler Hamburg – Matthias Lorenz-Meyer & Beata Arnold Rhineland-Palatinate – Carmen Christin Burger Bremen – Bella Lesnik Bavaria – Holger Barnsteiner Brandenburg – Marcus Kaiser Schleswig-Holstein – Kaya Laß Saarland – Martina Straten Saxony – Peter Imhof Baden-Württemberg – Hans Blomberg Sachsen-Anhalt – Thomas Schminke Hesse – Johannes Scherer Thuringia – Anne Voigt Berlin – Boussa Thiam Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Jens Herrmann Lower Saxony – Frank Schambor

References

External links Official BSC website at tvtotal.de