The Bundesvision Song Contest 2009 was the fifth edition of the annual Bundesvision Song Contest musical event. The contest was held on 13 February 2009 at the in Potsdam, Brandenburg, following Subway to Sally's win in the 2008 contest in Lower Saxony with the song "Auf Kiel". The contest was hosted by Stefan Raab, Johanna Klum, and Elton in the green room. This was the first contest in which a public service broadcaster, Bayern 3, supported the contest.

Contest overview The participants and their states were announced between 19 January and 12 February 2009 on TV total.

The winner of the Bundesvision Song Contest 2009 was Peter Fox with the song "Schwarz zu blau", representing Berlin, the state's second win. In second place was Polarkreis 18 representing Saxony, and third place to Rage representing North Rhine-Westphalia. Fox had already participated in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2006 as part of winning band Seeed which also represented Berlin. had also represented Thuringia in 2007 along with . competed in 2007 also for Brandenburg as part of .

10 of the 16 states awarded themselves the maximum of 12 points, with Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein awarding themselves 10 points each.

Results

+Bundesvision Song Contest 2009 State Artist Song English translation Points Place 1 Fräulein Wunder "Sternradio" Star radio 53 6 2 "Mein Name ist" My name is 21 14 3 Marteria "Zum König geboren" Born to be king 23 12 4 "Generation Monoton" Generation Monotone 10 16 5 Rage "Gib dich nie auf" Never give yourself up 112 3 6 "Pandora (Kiss Miss Tragedy)" — 53 6 7 "Jaqueline (ich hab Berlin gekauft)" Jaqueline (I've bought Berlin) 37 9 8 Claudia Koreck "I wui dass du woasst" I want you to know 34 10 9 "Bis auf letzte Nacht" Except for last night 44 8 10 Fotos "Du fehlst mir" I'm missing you 12 15 11 "Urlaub am Attersee" Holidays on the Attersee 25 11 12 "Unter Grund" Underground 23 12 13 Polarkreis 18 "The Colour of Snow" — 131 2 14 Cassandra Steen "Darum leben wir" That's why we live 103 4 15 Olli Schulz "" Do the Big Bird 73 5 16 Peter Fox "Schwarz zu blau" Black to blue 174 1

Scoreboard Voting results Hesse 53 12 2 1 4 4 5 3 5 1 1 5 5 5 Saarland 21 12 5 1 3 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 23 5 12 2 2 2 Saxony-Anhalt 10 10 North Rhine-Westphalia 112 7 8 7 7 10 7 7 7 6 7 5 7 8 7 6 6 Thuringia 53 5 4 2 5 12 5 3 4 1 7 2 3 Brandenburg 37 1 3 3 1 3 10 2 3 4 7 Bavaria 34 4 1 2 2 1 12 2 2 1 6 1 Schleswig-Holstein 44 5 2 3 4 2 1 10 3 3 2 1 8 Lower Saxony 12 10 1 1 Bremen 25 2 4 12 3 4 Rhineland-Palatinate 23 4 2 10 3 4 Saxony 131 8 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 8 8 8 12 8 7 10 Baden-Württemberg 103 6 6 6 6 7 6 6 6 5 5 7 6 6 12 5 8 Hamburg 73 3 3 4 1 6 4 4 8 6 6 4 3 4 12 5 Berlin 174 10 10 10 12 12 10 12 10 12 12 10 12 10 10 10 12

References

External links Official BSC website at tvtotal.de