Germany's Next Topmodel, Cycle 2
| Germany's Next Top Model (cycle 2) | |
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| Country of origin | Germany |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ProSieben |
| Original release |
1 March – 31 May 2007 |
| Judges |
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| No. of contestants | 17 |
| Winner | Barbara Meier |
| Cycle chronology | |
1 March – 31 May 2007
Germany's Next Topmodel Cycle 2, started airing on 1 March 2007 with a batch of 15 fresh wannabe models and the judges that would determine the winner. Two girls, Sophie and Alina, left during the second episode after deciding that their education was more important. Tonia Michaely and Denise Dahinten replaced the two contestants. This season was commercially presented by Opel Tigra Twin Top and Staatl. Fachingen. Finalist Hana Nitsche started a huge career as a lingerie model even shooting a campaign for Victoria's Secret, while winner Barbara Meier started a career as a high fashion model.
The international destinations for this cycle were set in St. Moritz, Cape Town, Bangkok and Los Angeles.
Original airdate: 1 March 2007
Out of over 16,000 applicants, the judges selected 100 girls as semi-finalists, who then had to prove themselves in a model castings. The applicants had only 2 minutes to win over the judges with their charisma and personality. From the 100, 25 were chosen, and given their first task - a fashion show at the Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany's largest football stadium, where they had to do a catwalk down the field during half-time in front of over 70,000 football fans watching the Borussia Dortmund vs. VfB Stuttgart game. At the end of the second day of casting, ten of the girls are eliminated, and the 15 that would move on to the house were determined.
Original airdate: 8 March 2007
The 15 finalists arrived in St. Moritz and went to their first photo shoot on a snow-covered mountain for German Cosmopolitan. After this photo shoot, Sophie and Alina decided to leave the show to return to school. Then the contestants had their first challenge, won by Aneta. Finally, they went to their first important photo shoot, posing in front of a gigantic fan with a car behind them. Previously eliminated contestants Tonia and Denise replaced Alina and Sophie. Heidi Klum, watching the photo shoot, spoke highly of Denise's creative poses, saying she hasn't ever seen poses like them before. In the end, Janine was the first model eliminated, due to a lack of expression in her photos.
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