The twelfth season of the talent show The Voice of Germany premiered on 18 August 2022. The show was broadcast by two local TV stations, ProSieben and Sat.1, during the Blind Auditions and the Battles. The rest episodes of the season were broadcast by Sat.1 only.
Mark Forster returned for his sixth season. Rea Garvey and Stefanie Kloß, who last appeared on season 10, returned as coaches for their seventh and fourth seasons respectively, replacing Johannes Oerding and Sarah Connor. Peter Maffay joined the show as a new coach this season, replacing Nico Santos. Meanwhile, Thore Schölermann returned for his eleventh season as host, with Melissa Khalaj replacing Lena Gercke as the new host.
Anny Ogrezeanu was named The Voice of Germany on November 4, 2022. This marked Mark Forster's first win on the main show after being a coach for six seasons, and his third in the entire series (twice on the Kids' version).
Panelists Coaches
On 13 April 2022, ProSieben and Sat.1 announced Mark Forster would be the only coach returning, meaning that Nico Santos, Johannes Oerding and Sarah Connor would not be returning as coaches for season 12. On 12 May 2022, it was announced that Rea Garvey and Stefanie Kloss would be returning as solo coaches after a one-year hiatus, along with new coach Peter Maffay. After three seasons, the Comeback Stage by SEAT was not reinstated this season, leading to the departure of last season's Comeback Stage coach Elif Demirezer. Hence, the number of finalists on the show would be down to four once again.
Hosts On 30 March 2022, Lena Gercke announced on her Instagram account that after seven seasons she would not be returning to the show. On 21 April 2022, it was announced that Thore Schölermann would return as host and Melissa Khalaj would be the new host.
Teams +Teams color key Winner Eliminated in the Live shows Runner-up Eliminated in the Sing Off Third place Stolen in the Battle rounds Fourth place Eliminated in the Battle rounds
+ Coaching teams Coaches Top 75 Artists Rea Garvey Tammo Förster Jan Bleeker Sophie Frei Christian Torez Yasya Levchenko Bella Robin Björn Meyer Marlon Newman Luka Maksim Klais Sarah Alawuru Kevin Tschopp Tami Rahman Vincenzo Rindone Benny Gremmler Lisa Pauli Lucy Grimm Lukas & Clemens King Nadine Pimanov Rina Grundke Siegmar Meemken Stefanie Kloß Basti Schmidt Lizi Gogua Luan Huber Ayham Fayad Paul Seifert André Deininger Jens Gilles Jörg Lornsen Doni Wirandana Tami Rahman Albi Rabaev Aubrey Bacani Bastian Benoa Rauschmaier Dominik Puntigam Jay Jeker Leander Gronem Nico David Anfuso Richard Tedja Sophie Buchmann Peter Maffay Julian Pförtner Nel Lewicki Susan Agbor Charlotte Torchalla Leo Karakaya Sissi Engel Guido Westermann Katharina Merker Kevin Tschopp Maite Jens Alex Ohles Dominik Graf von Schwerin Franziska Kleinert Jassy Tawiah Jenny Oberst-Harth Katja Forg Leona Shijaku Michi Gallistl Mohammad Fahmi Sarah Barelly Mark Forster Anny Ogrezeanu Bruno Flütsch Marlon Falter Ceri Hall-Brady Vincenzo Rindone Anja Beck-Harth Sid Bader James Boyle LIENNE Luca Wefes Luka Maksim Klais Christina & Dionisia Gravou Hanna Trabert Jerome Mitchell Leonardo Kryeziu Luis Schubert Nadine Traoré Ody Patron Renee Bludau Sammy Franklin
Blind Auditions The Blind Auditions were recorded from 19 May 2022 to 24 May 2022 at Studio Adlershof in Berlin and began broadcasting 18 August 2022, being broadcast every Thursday on ProSieben and every Friday on Sat.1.
In this round, the four coaches can press their buttons and select however number of artists they want to join their teams. A total of 119 artists auditioned and 75 of them got at least one coach turned for their performance. In addition, 26 artists got a four-chair-turn in this round. In addition, this season marks the first instance where at least one coach (Stefanie Kloß in this instance) do not have any one-chair turns on their teams.
+ Blind auditions color key ✔ Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button Artist defaulted to this coach's team Artist elected to join this coach's team Artist was eliminated with no coach pressing their button Artist received an 'All Turn'.
+ Blind auditions results Episode Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Rea Stefanie Peter Mark Episode 1 1 Richard Tedja 19 "Home" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Bella Robin 31 "I Surrender" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Juilo Noriega 28 "November Rain" – – – – 4Julian Pförtner 22 "Shivers" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 5 Lana Thieser 28 "Like the Way I Do" – – – – 6 Bruno Flütsch 26 "Georgia on My Mind" – ✔ – ✔ 7 Nel Lewicki 32 "Chandelier" – – ✔ – 8 Lucas Anskat 31 "Zusammen" – – – – 9 Sophie Frei 17 "abcdefu" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 10 Claudia Heinken 42 "Proud Mary" – – – – 11 Sissi Engel 31 "Just Like a Pill" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 12 André Deininger 42 "A Whiter Shade of Pale" ✔ ✔ – ✔ Episode 2 1 Albi Rabaev 28 "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Hanna Trabert 29 "My Immortal" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Keno Ouzeroual 20 "Einmal um die Welt" – – – – 4 Leo Karakaya 27 "Flugzeuge im Bauch" – ✔ ✔ – 5 Andy Ellgaß 27 "Over My Shoulder" – – – – 6 Isabella Jan 32 "It's Oh So Quiet" – – – – 7 Christian Torez 25 "Another Love" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 8 Melly Volkelt 35 "All About That Bass" – – – – 9 Susan Agbor 42 "You Are So Beautiful" – ✔ ✔ – 10 Charlotte Torchalla 21 "For the First Time in Forever" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 11 Malte Michalek 42 "Too Close" – – – – 12 Yasya Levchenko 18 "Hore dolom" ✔ – – ✔ Episode 3 1 Kevin Tschopp 25 "Hold Me While You Wait" ✔ – – ✔ 2Sid Bader 22 "I Wanna Be Like You" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Martina Frank 65 "König Von Deutschland" – – – – 4 Leona Shijaku 19 "Traitor" ✔ – ✔ ✔ 5 Carla Pollak 26 "Tainted Love" – – – – 6Tammo Förster 19 "Imagine" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 7 Berry Bicakci 21 "Rolling In The Deep" – – – – 8 Anny Ogrezeanu 21 "I Will Always Love You" ✔ – – ✔ 9 Jacob Linner 23 "Overpass Graffiti" – – – – 10Renee Bludau 20 "Better" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 11 Jessica Ostermeier 30 "Enter Sandman" – – – – 12 Bastian Benoa Rauschmaier 33 "Der Weg" – ✔ ✔ – 13 Anja Beck-Harth 55 "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" – ✔ – ✔ Episode 4 1 Jenny Oberst-Harth 27 "Nutbush City Limits" ✔ – ✔ ✔ 2 Doni Wirandana 31 "What A Wonderful World" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Felicia Faber 20 "Firework" – – – – 4 Marlon Falter 18 "Kartenhaus" – ✔ – ✔ 5 Jerome Mitchell 32 "Can't Hold Us" ✔ – – ✔ 6 Andreas Urbaniak 57 "The Power of Love" – – – – 7 Nadine Pimanov 25 "Dragostea Din Tei" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 8 Steff Federer 33 "Every You Every Me" – – – – 9 Katharina Merker 28 "Blinde Passagiere" – – ✔ – 10 Luka Maksim Klais 22 "Wolke 7" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 11 Paloma Babativa 28 "Conga" – – – – 12 Basti Schmidt 27 "All By Myself" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Episode 5 1 Luan Huber 20 "Beggin'" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Nadine Traoré 28 "Sir Duke" ✔ – – ✔ 3 Verena Sturm 27 "Stop And Stare" – – – – 4 Sarah Barelly 34 "Ein Kompliment" – – ✔ ✔ 5 Goran Todorovic 40 "Let Me Entertain You" – – – – 6 Tami Rahman 27 "Teenage Dirtbag" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 7 Fränzy Schwendemann 40 "Mädchen" – – – – 8 Lukas & Clemens King 30 "Chasing Cars" ✔ – – – 9 Lizi Gogua 18 "I'd Rather Go Blind" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 10 Franziska Kleinert 53 "Barfuß Am Klavier" – – ✔ ✔ 11 Luca Pitrolo 28 "American Idiot" – – – – 12 Jörg Lornsen 38 "Bis meine Welt die Augen schließt" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Episode 6 1 Ceri Hall-Brady 22 "Fast Car" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Andreas Böttcher 38 "Save Tonight" – – – – 3 Mohammad Fahmi 27 "Can't Help Falling In Love" – – ✔ ✔ 4 Babs Luggin 45 "Irgendwann Bleib I Dann Dort" – – – – 5 Lisa Pauli 21 "Skyscraper" ✔ – ✔ – 6 Zoé Arndt 16 "Do You Like What You See" – – – – 7 Sammy Franklin 43 "You Raise Me Up" – – – ✔ 8 Marina Vogel 22 "Blurry Eyes" – – – – 9 Alex Ohles 30 "I Will Wait" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 10 Luis Schubert 20 "Drag Me Down" – ✔ – ✔ 11 Flo Fleischer 22 "You Let Me Walk Alone" – – – – 12 Sophie Buchmann 24 "Complicated" – ✔ – ✔ 13 Jens Gilles 28 "The Scientist" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Episode 7 1 Aubrey Bacani 27 "Listen" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Leonardo Kryeziu 27 "Careless Whisper" ✔ – ✔ ✔ 3 Sarah Paschke 24 "Nothing Breaks Like A Heart" – – – – 4 James Boyle 54 "Fever" ✔ – – ✔ 5 LIENNE 22 "Unfaithful" ✔ – – ✔ 6 Alberto Vasquez 28 "Magia" – – – – 7 Benny Gremmler 21 "Break My Heart Again" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 8 Achmed Kupka 34 "The Wild Rover" – – – – 9 Anna Totter 24 "Bad Romance" – – – – 10 Ayham Fayad 20 "Lovin' You" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 11 Marlon Newman 19 "All My Life" ✔ – – – 12 Julia Doubrawa 28 "Wo fängt dein Himmel an" – – – – 13 Guido Westermann 49 "I’d Do Anything for Love" – – ✔ ✔ Episode 8 1 Michi Gallistl 30 "Castle on the Hill" – – ✔ – 2 Maite Jens 22 "Let It Be" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Gabriel & Suzana 18 & 43 "Diamonds" – – – – 4 Nico David Anfuso 34 "The Way You Make Me Feel" – ✔ ✔ – 5 Adrian Templin 28 "I Swear" – – – – 6 Lucy Grimm 22 "Break My Heart" ✔ – – – 7 Jan Bleeker 32 "Supergirl" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 8 Kaya Laß 39 "Kreise" – – – – 9 Dominik Puntigam 23 "Zombie" – ✔ ✔ – 10 Mara Hoppen 24 "Still Into You" – – – – 11 Luca Wefes 22 "Marmor, Stein Und Eisen Bricht" – – – ✔ 12 Lars Billekens 26 "Hotel California" – – – – 13 Sarah Alawuru 19 "Where Is the Love?" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Episode 9 1 Noemi Muñoz 29 "Whenever, Wherever" – – – – 2 Rina Grundke 22 "Listen to Your Heart" ✔ – ✔ – 3 Ody Patron 37 "So Emotional" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 4 Dominik Graf von Schwerin 25 "The Joker and the Queen" – – ✔ – 5 Branka Schuler 52 "If You Could Read My Mind" – – – – 6 Paul Seifert 21 "Easy on Me" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 7 Chioma Rabiej 40 "What's Love Got to Do with It" – – – – 8 Björn Meyer 21 "Tears in Heaven" ✔ – – ✔ 9 Christina & Dionisia Gravou 20 "This Is the Life" – – – ✔ 10 Jezzi Capulong 22 "The House of the Rising Sun" – – – – 11 Siegmar Meemken 57 "Was Wichtig Ist" ✔ – – ✔ 12 Mohamed Lakhdhar 28 "Treat You Better" – – – – 13 Jay Jeker 21 "Mercedes Benz" – ✔ ✔ – Episode 10 1 Vincenzo Rindone 36 "Augenbling" ✔ – – – 2 Leander Gronem 22 "I Say A Little Prayer" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 3 Melli Zech 22 "Bette Davis Eyes" – – – – 4 Jassy Tawiah 21 "I See Fire" – – ✔ – 5 Anna Maria 36 "That's What Friends Are For" – – – – 6 Katja Forg 51 "When Love Takes Over" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Battles The Battles were recorded from July 4, 2022, to July 6, 2022, in Berlin, being broadcast like the Blind Auditions every Thursday on ProSieben and every Friday on Sat.1.
In this round, the four coaches pair two or three of their artists, depending on the total number of artists on their teams, in a singing match and then select one of them to advance to the next round. Each coach has only one 'Steal' which can be used to select an artist on another team and lost the battle to advance to the Sing-offs.
+ Battle rounds color key Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Sing-offs Artist lost the Battle but was stolen by another coach and advances to the Sing-offs Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated