Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Germany has never participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, but on 8 July 2020, it was announced that Germany will debut at the 2020 contest in Warsaw, Poland. KiKa, the children's channel jointly owned by European Broadcasting Union (EBU) members ARD and ZDF, will be responsible for the selection of their first participant. The 2020 entry will be written by singer-songwriter Levent Geiger, a finalist in the German children's show Dein Song in 2015 and 2019.[1]

Germany
Member stationKiKa (ARD, ZDF)
National selection events
Participation summary
Appearances0
First appearance2020
External links
NDR page
Germany's page at Eurovision.tv

For the nation's first participation, the broadcasters will select their artist through the national selection process Dein Song für Warschau (English: Your song for Warsaw), with the song selected internally.[2]

History

Germany was originally going to take part in the 2003 contest in Copenhagen, but later withdrew from the contest.[3] They also planned to take part in the 2004 contest in Lillehammer but again withdrew from the contest.[4] In addition, NDR also broadcast the 2003,[5] 2015[6] and 2016 contests.[7] For 2003, the broadcaster organised a delayed broadcast on KiKa whilst the contests in 2015 and 2016 were livestreamed via the broadcaster's Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.de with commentary provided by Thomas Mohr.[8]

In May 2014, NDR announced they would not debut at the 2014 contest as they believed the contest would not be a success under German television marketing standards.[9] They did, however, observe the 2013 contest in Kiev, Ukraine. ZDF attended the 2014 Contest in Malta. On 1 July 2015, ARD consortium member NDR launched an online poll to decide whether or not Germany should participate in the 2015 contest, which would be broadcast on their children's station, KiKa (a joint venture of ARD and ZDF).[10] Germany ultimately did not participate.

In December 2019, KiKA confirmed that a delegation from the broadcaster and NDR was attending the 2019 contest in Gliwice, Poland to experience the competition as part of the audience. It was emphasised that no decision had yet been made as to whether Germany would participate the following year or not although there were close discussions with the EBU.[11]

On 8 July 2020, KiKA confirmed that a delgation from broadcasters NDR and ZDF will participate for the first time in the 2020 contest in Warsaw.

Commentators and spokespersons
Year Commentator Channel(s) Spokesperson Ref.
2003 Unknown KiKa Did not participate [5]
2004–2014 No broadcast
2015 Thomas Mohr NDR website [12]
2016 [7]
2017–2019 No broadcast
2020 TBA KiKa TBA [13]

See also

References
  1. "Deutschland nimmt am Junior ESC 2020 teil". eurovision.de. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  2. "Bewirb dich für den "Junior Eurovision Song Contest"!". KiKa (in German). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  3. "The first ever "Eurovision Song Contest for Children" is born". 21 November 2002. Archived from the original on 5 September 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  4. Philips, Roel (8 June 2004). "Germany withdraws from Junior Eurovision Song Contest". Esctoday.com. Esctoday. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  5. "EBU.CH :: EBU news - 2003_11_17". EBU. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  6. "Germany: Livestream For JESC 2015". Esctoday.com. Esctoday. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  7. Granger, Anthony (3 November 2016). "Germany: Junior Eurovision Online Broadcast Confirmed". eurovoix.com. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  8. "German interest in Junior Eurovision Song Contest". 16 November 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  9. Granger, Anthony (24 May 2014). "Germany: Will Not Take Part In JESC 2014". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  10. Feddersen, Jan (1 July 2015). "Germany: Deutschland beim Junior Eurovision Song Contest?". eurovision.de. NDR. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  11. Granger, Anthony (22 November 2019). "Germany: Delegation Observing Junior Eurovision 2019". Eurovoix. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  12. Hendrickx, Jonathan (16 November 2015). "German interest in Junior Eurovision Song Contest". eurovoix.com. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  13. "Germany will participate at Junior Eurovision 2020". junioreurovision.tv. EBU. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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