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Deutschland sucht den Superstar (season 7)

Broadcast from 6 January – 17 April 2010
Judges Dieter Bohlen
Nina Eichinger
Volker Neumüller
Sylvie van der Vaart (final only)
Host(s) Marco Schreyl
Mehrzad Marashi
Mehrzad Marashi – Hamburg-Halstenbek 2016 06.jpg
Origin Hamburg, Germany
Song "Don't believe"
Menowin Fröhlich

Deutschland sucht den Superstar Season 7 is the seventh season of the Idol series which aired on RTL Television and started on 6 January 2010. The season marked a new national record with more than 35,000 participants. The final aired on 17 April 2010, and the winner was Mehrzad Marashi.

The 7 Audition episodes were showen every Wednesday and Saturday from 6 January 2010 until 27 January 2010. After open auditions in the 5 cities Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg and an auditions truck, which stopped from September until October 2009 in 15 cities in Freiburg, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Würzburg, Regensburg, Dortmund, Münster, Kassel, Erfurt, Dresden, Halle, Hannover, Bremen, Kiel and .

The recall had 3 phases. The first phase was shot in a theater in Cologne. The 120 singers were split into 2 groups: Boys and Girls. Then every singer sang his favorite song. After that 55 singers were eliminated and the remaining singers sang in groups to get one of the 35 tickets for the next phase.

The second phase was shot in the Caribbean. The 35 singers sang three times: unaccompanied, in groups and in duos. The Top 25 came into the third phase.


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