ARD documentary about Stefan Raab and the Eurovision Song Contest | EUROtoday

Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now.

Stefan Raab also can critically. And he can withdraw. If he desires. Raab at all times took an organization that has virtually change into a life’s work: the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). Even the Klamauk, with which he entered the best music occasion on this planet, solely had one sense: to win. And that with a complete of seven makes an attempt.

In this respect, the ESC was at all times a prime precedence for Stefan Raab, and never solely this 12 months, because the ninety -minute documentary “Stefan Raab: Mein ESC – Chief Matters Abor & Tynna” exhibits. Raab can encourage ESC, even after greater than ten years of abstinence. Instead of 800, greater than 3000 purposes for the German preliminary determination in 2025, which in flip checked out rather more spectators than in earlier years. Also undoubtedly because of the draft horse Stefan Raab.

Raab desires to impress

The indisputable fact that he was in any respect had lots to do with the devastating efficiency of the German artists within the Nineteen Nineties. In 1995 there was just one level from Malta for the duo Stone & Stone (“In love with you”), in 1996 Germany was sorted out prematurely as a result of the contribution “Planet of Blue” was not discovered sufficient. That was a singular course of, which is why Germany has been one of many nice donors within the ultimate since 1997. Which doesn’t assure high quality, as Bianca Shomburg demonstrated within the first 12 months when she got here 18th with the Ralph seal tune “Zeit”.

Trailer„Stefan Raab: ESC stone – Abor & Tynna”

A 12 months later, a sure Alf Igel reinvented the Grand Prix for Germany. Raab, who put Ralph Siegel on the grain behind the pseudonym, was at Viva on the time. When the provide got here to participate within the ESC, he sat down on the keyboard and wrote for the broadly unknown Guildo Horn The tune “Guildo loved you!” The music therapist from Trier not solely received the preliminary determination with virtually two thirds of the votes and reached seventh place on the ultimate in Dublin. The staff Horn and Raab immediately made the ESC well-liked once more amongst youthful spectators.

Or as Raab says, it made certain that German society has enthusiastic about it. Always a great signal for him. Because that can also be a part of his idea: Raab desires to impress. You might be totally different “Wadde Hadde Dudde?” Do not perceive two years later. Or? Even with this quantity, the entertainer solely wished to win one. In the tip it was fifth in Stockholm. What Raab apparently didn’t calculate was that he additionally degraded the ESC stage in Germany. A 12 months later, the previous “Big Brother” participant Zlatko and Munich dressmaker Rudolph Moshammer competed within the preliminary determination.

The boss stays inviolable

Raab’s reply adopted in 2004: Then he despatched a primary gifted expertise to the ESC, Max Mutzke with “Can’t Wait Until Tonight” (eighth place), in 2010 one other, Lena, made the victory with the tune “Satellite”. For Raab, this was the earlier climax to which he now desires to construct as a mentor with the pair of siblings Abor & Tynna from Vienna for Germany. Her option to the ESC, the primary to which the older brother remembers, was additionally in 2012, the documentation is retired.

From the primary casting to the practice journey to Basel final Wednesday. A glance behind the scenes up to now few months exhibits what a state of emergency the 2 have been within the preliminary determination in early March – a great third selected and her tune “Baller” in first place. In the tip, the stress even led to a throat irritation of singer Tynna, in order that her voice needed to be recorded from the meeting line when he appeared in Amsterdam.

The boss, Stefan Raab, stays inviolable within the documentation. The important companion, the inevitable Elton, commentators and moderators reminiscent of Peter Urban and Barbara Schöneberger, this 12 months’s preliminary determination jurors Yvonne Catterfeld and Max Giesinger have their say. Max Mutzke, however neither Guildo Horn nor Lena. Stefan Raab additionally is aware of that the ESC will not be a certain -fire success for Germany this 12 months. Abor & Tynna aren’t a part of the favourite group. It stays to be seen whether or not an euphoria can nonetheless be constructed up in Basel, as within the ultimate week at the highschool graduate Lena Meyer-Landrut in Oslo.

You need to have the braveness to lose. Only then are you able to win, says Raab. And additionally that in the long run he likes to be punished for unhealthy efficiency. “This is called responsibility.” What the 58-year-old Raab doesn’t have regardless of 27 years of ESC expertise: a recipe for find out how to win the competitors. However, indispensable, nonetheless, is actually a enough stage of seriousness that the NDR has missed as a broadcaster chargeable for the ESC since 1996. The SWR takes over subsequent 12 months.

Stefan Raab: ESC stone – Abor & Tynna Runs within the NDR on Friday at 0.00 a.m. on the night time from Thursday to Friday at 0.05 on NDR tv and within the ARD media library.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien-und-film/fernsehfilm/ard-doku-ueber-stefan-raab-und-den-eurovision-song-contest-110476170.html