Roman won the passport to Baku with 50,7% of votes against 49,3% from Ornella. Roman will represent Germany in ESC with the song standing still.

Kim Wilde and Ingolf Lück will be presenting national and international pop stars with their greatest hits from five decades in this dual-language show. Contemporary celebrities will talk about songs that have changed their lives. Was it their first kiss? When they fell in love? Their big break? We’ll have to wait and see!Interviews, original footage and performances will reflect the spirit of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and of today. An award for each decade will be presented to honour the extraordinary achievements of the stars. The show will be today, Saturday, 22nd October 2011. From 20.15 hours live broadcast on 3sat. Repeats will be shown on ZDF prime time on Saturday, 5th of November 2011 after the show "Wetten, dass" and on ZDFkultur a few days later. ‘Shanghai - Paris – Rome, live is a pleasure dome!’The members of JONES featuring FABRIZIO FANIELLO are living in different places all over the globe and meet at night on the internet. Via Skype and thanks to modern recording techniques they are grooving in Shanghai, Malta and Frankfurt. With their dance pop song ‘THE SOUND OF LIFE IS POP!’ they managed to get right into the ZDF/3SAT show ’50 Years of Pop’. Jones featuring Fabrizio, will be broadcasted live from the Arena Leipzig on October 22nd. http://www.50jahrepop.com/

Is everything ready for the second semifinal? We hope so after all the technical problems that happened yesterday durign the first semifinal. The sound of the first show was bad and some comentators couldnt broadcast. For us the second semifinal is tough and according with what we saw today in the first dress rehearsal it is very difficult to predict! Our prediction now is that Austria, Bosnia, Sweden, Ukraine, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia and Romania will have a place in the final. If it is like that it will be very difficult to say who will be the 10th finalist! May the best songs and performances go to the final!

Germany decided to choose the winner of the last edition of ESC! Lena is not perfect singing but she has her own style, and she has the perfect look for an artist. If Germany won twice in a row with the same artist it will be something never seen before in an annual music contest, specially with 43 participants. We all know that Lena's carreer will be always related with Eurovision, but does she need it again? We hope the satellite dont crash and that the stranger dont let her fail! Her performance is very good, very simple but effective! And if Germany wins again, should we finally go to Berlin?

 

Spain decided that Lucia Perez will represent the country in ESC with Que me quiten lo bailao. After several weeks of Eurovision "karaoke" competition, Lucia was one of the three finalists choosen. Rafael Artesero is the composer and writer of the song. Artesero already colaborated with Nucha (Portugal 1990) in her latest album.

In Germany, the audience choose Taken by a stranger as the song that the latest ESC winner, Lena, will sing in Dusseldorf.

Since 2004, the Eurovision Song Contest has a generic logo where in the heart of it the flag of the Host Country is displayed. However, every year the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invites the Host Broadcaster to create the visual identity to support the logo.

This year, the visual identity goes under the slogan "Feel your hear beat!". The symbol of the theme is a pulsating heart made up of multi-coloured light rays. These two elements will shape the visual branding of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf.

The theme refers to the great emotions which music can evoke – and which belong to the distinctive character of the Eurovision Song Contest: enthusiasm, heart beating, excitement, love and passion.

There are no limits to these emotions, there are no language barriers. The theme also refers to the fact that every song has its individual rhythm. See the theme art below!

source: eurovision.tv

Host broadcaster NDR went on to reveal the presenters of next year's contest: it will be a threesome consisting of Anke Engelke, Judith Rakers and Stefan Raab!

The three presenters are no new faces for the German TV audience, but now they are going international and will present all 3 shows for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011!

Anke Engelke was born in Montreal, Canada and is tri-lingual (German, English, French). She has been a steady figure on German television since she was 12. She is mainly an actress and comedienne, but she has also presented lots of shows for several big German TV channels, like the Berlinale. She has been singing in a soulband for 20 years now and revealed that she is a big ABBA fan since they won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974. In a first comment, Anke said that is very honoured to be one of the hosts of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.

Judith Rakers is one of the faces of ARD's Tagesschau - the most important news show on German television. On NDR, she presents 3 Nach 9, a talkshow. She has also been involved in NDR's Hamburg Journal and has been working for the radio, too. She is excited to be one of the presenters' team for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest and it is a dream coming true for her.

Stefan Raab is no stranger to Eurovision Song Contest fans as he wrote the German entries in 1998, 2000 - which he performed himself - and 2004. Furthermore, he is the mentor of Lena who won the contest this year for Germany. Stefan is mostly working for private channel ProSieben presenting several entertainment shows. He says that presenting the Eurovision Song Contest is the biggest highlight in his contest career. source: eurovision.tv

Probably we will get to know the city host of Eurovision very soon. Till now, we asked our readers in our poll about the best city to host the show. More than 50% of our readers prefer Berlin, Hamburg comes next and Hannover in the end. In the last days comments in the internet talked about the big probability of ESC to be held in Berlin or Hannover. Will it be true?