Germany are going big this year. Broadcaster NDR is aiming for a win on its last participation at Eurovision, before SWR takes over in 2026. And now we know the list of artists the country will be choosing from, with 24 acts set to compete in Chefsache ESC 2025 – Wer singt für Deutschland?
Stefan Raab, Eurovision 2000 contestant and organiser of this year’s selection, had to choose from 3,281 applications. He and his team eventually managed to select the artists who will feature in the preliminary rounds.
Chefsache ESC 2025: Competing acts
- Abor & Tynna
- Adina
- Benjamin Braatz
- Cage
- Chase
- Cloudy June
- Cosby
- Enny-Mae & Paradigm
- Equa Tu
- Fannie
- Feuerschwanz
- From Fall To Spring
- Jaln
- Janine
- Jonathan Henrich
- Julika
- Leonora
- Lyza
- Moss Kena
- Ni-ka
- Noah Levi
- Parallel
- The Great Leslie
- Vincent Varus
These 24 acts will initially perform for a jury — comprised of Raab himself, alongside actress Yvonne Catterfeld, presenter Elton, and guest jurors — during the first three rounds. In the grand final, it will be completely down to the public on who represents Germany at Eurovision 2025.
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First Two Shows — 14 & 15 February
- Each show will feature 12 acts.
- 6–7 contestants from each show will advance to the semi-final.
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Semi-Final — 22 February
- Up to 14 acts will compete.
- Approximately 9 acts will move on to the grand final.
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Grand Final — 1 March
- The winner, determined exclusively by the audience, will represent Germany at Eurovision 2025.
Are you excited by the line-up for Chefsache ESC 2025? Whose song are you most interested to hear? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Feuerschwanz wirklich
3000 x 3 minutes… that’s way too much, I wonder how they did do this…
Good Luck Feuerschwanz
A 24-act German national final sounds like an absolute nightmare.
I don’t think watching it is compulsory
I like this
Germany kinda snapped and I love it.
Amendment to the article:
Stefan Raab, the organizer of the German selection this year, not only participated himself as the ESC-contestant representing Germany in the year 2000 (5th place in the final), but was also the songwriter of the German ESC-songs in 1998 (7th place) and 2004 (8th place), In addition he also was a key figure in the national selection process in 2010 won by Lena with the song “Satellite”, who gained the ESC-trophy in the 2010 final in Oslo.
When you listen to Lena’s song now, it’s hard to understand why she won… I couldn’t even remember it, but apparently Raab is able to create magic.
He obviously also was one of the 2011 ESC hosts and creator of the “Bundesvision Song Contest”, an ESC-spin off (with quite a number of big names in German-speaking countries) for German states in the past,not linked to the EBU, the ESC or Germany’s national selection.
Just to name all related associations
Furthermore he was also in charge of the 2011 and 2012 national selections (Lena – Taken by a stranger; Roman Lob – Standing Still)
By the way, there’s a “Tattoo”-Cover (Loreen) by CHASE on Spotify if you want to listen to it.
And a roster full of no-names, great :). So I won’t expect anything, then I only can get surprised. Go Cosby!! (They are from my city)
Feuerschwanz is not a no-name.
FFTS neither
And Moss Kena has a song with nearly 200 Mio. Spotify Streams >:)
Cloudy June also quite known. Has 669K monthly listeners on Spotify. Has a 46 million Spotify streams for a song. Has 140K Instagram followers and 233K TikTok followers.
I just saw a reel by cloudy june on instagram and 2 people I know who are not into esc already follow her