Bundesvision Song Contest

The Bundesvision Song Contest (often shortened BSC or BuViSoCo) was a song competition held annually between the sixteen states of Germany. Created by German entertainer Stefan Raab and aired live on ProSieben, the show was loosely based on the Eurovision Song Contest, with slightly different rules aiming at promoting German-language music by requiring that at least 50% of each song's lyrics were performed in German.

Bundesvision Song Contest
Genre	Song competition
Created by	Stefan Raab
Based on	Eurovision Song Contest
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
No. of episodes	11 contests
Production
Executive producer	Jörg Grabosch
Production company	Brainpool TV
Original release
Network	ProSieben
Release	12 February 2005 (2005-02-12) – 29 August 2015 (2015-08-29)

History

Stefan Raab created and hosted the contest.

The Bundesvision Song Contest was created by Stefan Raab in 2005, in the vein of the Eurovision Song Contest.^[1] The contest was held annually between 2005 and 2015, however, after Raab retired in late 2015, the 2016 edition of the contest was not held, although the show was not officially cancelled.^[1] The contest was not held since, and in June 2019, ProSieben stated that it was not planning to produce further editions.^[2]

Format

The Bundesvision Song Contest followed a similar format as the Eurovision Song Contest: All sixteen states of Germany (German: Bundesländer) entered one song that was performed live on the night of the show, and once all states have performed, a winner was decided by tele-vote.

Contests

Year	Date	Host city	Winner	Artist	Song	Points
2005	12 February	Oberhausen	Hesse	Juli	"Geile Zeit"	159
2006	9 February	Wetzlar	Berlin	Seeed	"Ding"	151
2007	9 February	Berlin	Lower Saxony	Oomph! feat. Marta Jandová	"Träumst du?"	147
2008	14 February	Hanover	Brandenburg	Subway to Sally	"Auf Kiel"
2009	13 February	Potsdam	Berlin	Peter Fox	"Schwarz zu blau"	174
2010	1 October	Berlin	North Rhine-Westphalia	Unheilig	"Unter deiner Flagge"	164
2011	29 September	Cologne	Berlin	Tim Bendzko	"Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären"	141
2012	28 September	Berlin	Baden-Württemberg	Xavas (Xavier Naidoo and Kool Savas)	"Schau nicht mehr zurück"	172
2013	26 September	Mannheim	Lower Saxony	Bosse	"So oder so"	153
2014	20 September	Göttingen	Bremen	Revolverheld	"Lass uns gehen"	180
2015	29 August	Bremen	Rhineland-Palatinate	Mark Forster	"Bauch und Kopf"	170

Total ranking

Each state's win record in the contest

States which have hosted the contest
  A single hosting   Multiple hostings

State	Points	Wins	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005
Berlin	1,035	3	23 (11)	016 (12)	105 (3)	050 (7)	141 (1)	100 (3)	174 (1)	066 (7)	096 (4)	151 (1)	113 (3)
Lower Saxony	0864	2	84 (4)	015 (13)	153 (1)	109 (3)	102 (3)	004 (16)	012 (15)	094 (4)	147 (1)	059 (6)	085 (4)
Baden-Württemberg	0789	1	82 (6)	058 (7)	051 (8)	172 (1)	091 (4)	039 (9)	103 (4)	046 (9)	023 (10)	047 (9)	077 (5)
Thuringia	0761	0	114 (3)	025 (11)	013 (13)	033 (9)	013 (12)	079 (6)	053 (6)	146 (2)	088 (6)	134 (3)	063 (7)
North Rhine-Westphalia	0759	1	117 (2)	046 (8)	020 (12)	097 (4)	076 (7)	164 (1)	112 (3)	016 (14)	095 (5)	006 (16)	010 (15)
Schleswig-Holstein	0703	0	28 (10)	087 (5)	068 (6)	076 (6)	008 (16)	060 (7)	044 (8)	075 (6)	101 (3)	026 (11)	130 (2)
Bremen	0668	1	46 (9)	180 (1)	061 (7)	018 (13)	111 (2)	020 (11)	025 (11)	020 (11)	020 (11)	136 (2)	031 (11)
Hamburg	0665	0	14 (13)	028 (10)	145 (2)	028 (10)	066 (8)	040 (8)	073 (5)	019 (12)	138 (2)	070 (5)	044 (9)
Hesse	0621	1	76 (7)	033 (9)	029 (11)	019 (11)	012 (13)	018 (13)	053 (6)	051 (8)	067 (7)	104 (4)	159 (1)
Saxony	0617	0	84 (4)	010 (16)	035 (9)	142 (2)	089 (5)	020 (11)	131 (2)	012 (15)	013 (13)	010 (15)	071 (6)
Brandenburg	0545	1	50 (8)	010 (015)	094 (4)	008 (16)	012 (13)	087 (5)	037 (9)	147 (1)	011 (15)	035 (10)	054 (8)
Rhineland-Palatinate	0526	1	170 (1)	124 (2)	031 (10)	020 (11)	086 (6)	017 (14)	023 (12)	017 (13)	010 (16)	018 (12)	010 (15)
Saxony-Anhalt	0490	0	13 (14)	102 (3)	012 (14)	010 (15)	012 (13)	152 (2)	010 (16)	096 (3)	056 (8)	012 (14)	015 (13)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0425	0	10 (15)	101 (4)	008 (16)	041 (8)	066 (8)	022 (10)	023 (12)	079 (5)	013 (13)	050 (8)	012 (14)
Bavaria	0397	0	2 (16)	081 (6)	012 (14)	013 (14)	026 (10)	094 (4)	034 (10)	032 (10)	033 (9)	053 (7)	017 (12)
Saarland	0328	0	15 (12)	012 (14)	091 (5)	092 (5)	017 (11)	012 (15)	021 (14)	012 (15)	017 (12)	017 (13)	037 (10)

Presenters

Johanna Klum co-presented the show from 2007 to 2011.

Year	Host	Main presenter	Green Room	Fan block
2005	Stefan Raab	Annette Frier	Oliver Pocher	—
2006		Janin Reinhardt	Elton
2007		Johanna Klum
2008
2009
2010
2011			Lena Meyer-Landrut	Elton
2012		Sandra Rieß	Elton	—
2013
2014		—
2015

See also

• American Song Contest
• Regio Songfestival