The Bundesvision Song Contest 2011 was the seventh edition of the annual Bundesvision Song Contest musical event. The contest was held on 29 September 2011 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, following Unheilig's win in the 2010 contest in Berlin with the song "Unter deiner Flagge". This was the second time that North Rhine-Westphalia had hosted the contest, after previously hosting in the first contest Oberhausen in 2005.
The contest was hosted by Stefan Raab, Johanna Klum, with Lena Meyer-Landrut; Germany's Eurovision Song Contest 2010 winner, and representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 conducting interviews in the green room, whilst regular green room host Elton sat in the fan block.
Contest overview The winner of the Bundesvision Song Contest 2011 was Tim Bendzko with the song "Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären", representing Berlin, the state's third win. In second place was representing Bremen, and third place to Bosse and Anna Loos representing Lower Saxony.
Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 winners Juli returned participating for Hesse, the second time a former winner had returned to the contest after Peter Fox had competed and won in 2009, and before that as a member of Seeed who won in 2006. Other returning artists include Jennifer Rostock from 2008; again for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Anna Loos representing Lower Saxony; who competed in the band Silly in 2010 for Saxony-Anhalt.
13 of the 16 states awarded themselves the maximum of 12 points, with Brandenburg, Saarland, and Schleswig-Holstein awarding themselves 10, 10, and 3 points respectively.
Results
+Bundesvision Song Contest 2011 State Artist Song English translation Points Place 1 Jennifer Rostock "Ich kann nicht mehr" I can't go on any longer 66 8 2 "Tu's nicht ohne Liebe" Don't do it without love 12 13 3 Muttersöhnchen "Essen geh'n" Eating out 8 16 4 "Wie konntest du nur?" How could you dare 12 13 5 Glasperlenspiel "" Real 91 4 6 Pierre Ferdinand et les Charmeurs "Ganz Paris ist eine Disco" Whole of Paris is a disco 17 11 7 Andreas Bourani "Eisberg" Iceberg 26 10 8 Kraftklub "Ich will nicht nach Berlin" I don't want to go to Berlin 89 5 9 "Ich war hier" I was here 13 12 10 Bosse & Anna Loos "Frankfurt/Oder" — 102 3 11 Juli "Du lügst so schön" You lie so beautifully 12 13 12 Thees Uhlmann "Zum Laichen und Sterben ziehen die Lachse den Fluss hinauf" The salmons go up the river for spawning and dying 66 8 13 Jupiter Jones "ImmerfürImmer" AlwaysForEver 86 6 14 "Zurück" Back 111 2 15 Tim Bendzko "Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären" If words were my language 141 1 16 "" Our love is made of gold 76 7
Scoreboard Voting resultstvtotal.prosieben.de/tvtotal/videos Scoring Part 1tvtotal.prosieben.de/tvtotal/videos Scoring Part 2 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 66 12 6 2 4 3 6 3 6 4 3 2 4 3 5 3 Saxony-Anhalt 12 12 Schleswig-Holstein 8 3 5 Brandenburg 12 10 2 Baden-Württemberg 91 4 4 6 7 12 4 7 5 3 6 6 10 7 3 7 Saarland 17 10 7 Bavaria 26 1 4 12 2 1 3 1 1 1 Saxony 89 3 3 4 6 6 2 6 12 10 4 5 4 5 4 10 5 Thuringia 13 1 12 Lower Saxony 102 10 10 7 8 5 5 2 8 5 12 3 8 1 6 8 4 Hesse 12 12 Hamburg 66 2 1 12 1 1 1 5 2 1 7 2 12 2 5 6 6 Rhineland-Palatinate 86 8 7 1 5 2 12 1 10 8 1 4 3 12 10 2 Bremen 111 5 2 8 2 8 7 8 3 6 10 8 10 7 12 7 8 Berlin 141 7 8 10 12 10 8 10 7 7 8 10 6 8 8 12 10 North Rhine-Westphalia 76 6 5 5 3 7 3 4 4 2 5 7 1 6 2 4 12
References
External links Official BSC website at tvtotal.de