Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010
| Eurovision Song Contest 2010 | ||||
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| Country |
 Germany
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Unser Star für Oslo 2010 100% Televoting |
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| Selection date(s) |
Heats 2 February 2010 9 February 2010 16 February 2010 23 February 2010 2 March 2010 Quarter-final 5 March 2010 Semi-final 9 March 2010 Final 12 March 2010 |
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| Selected entrant | Lena Meyer-Landrut | |||
| Selected song | "Satellite" | |||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Final result | 1st, 246 points | |||
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Germany is the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 winner, which was held in May 2010 in Bærum, Norway. The country's entry was selected in a series of competitive heats and a national final – Unser Star für Oslo 2010 – which was organised jointly by the public broadcasters ARD and NDR and the private television channel ProSieben, together with the three-time Eurovision participant for Germany (as singer and/or songwriter) and music producer, Stefan Raab.
News on planning for Germany's Eurovision Song Contest 2010 entry spread shortly after the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 had ended, on 25 May. State broadcaster ARD/NDR was revealed to have approached Stefan Raab and private broadcaster ProSieben to work alongside them in preparing for the 2010 Contest with a view of creating a possible winning song that would be sung by someone else. It was revealed that Raab had refused the request, but that ProSieben had accepted the offer to work with ARD/NDR.
More information was revealed on 20 July, with the news that Raab would in fact work with the two broadcasters in preparing for the 2010 Contest. The selection process consisted of eight shows – five qualifying rounds were broadcast on ProSieben, leading up to a quarter-final on ARD, a semi-final again on ProSieben and the final broadcast on ARD. A total of 20 participants were chosen for the final stage of the process. Most of the participants were inexperienced and young singers.
Raab took a lead role in the programmes as head of the jury, and was joined by 16 other celebrity judges from the music and entertainment industries.
A total of 20 acts took part in the preliminary shows on 2 and 9 February, each containing 10 acts. These ten acts performed popular hits, with five acts from each show qualifying to the elimination shows. Between 16 February and 2 March these ten acts were eliminated to five: two acts eliminated in the first heat; two in the second heat; and one in the third heat. The qualifying acts progressed to the quarter-final, broadcast on ARD, on 5 March. Four advanced to the semi-final on 9 March, broadcast on ProSieben, and on 12 March only two acts remained: Jennifer Braun and Lena Meyer-Landrut.
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