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Christoph Pellander, the current Head of Delegation for Germany, will become the new head of department editorial and program management at ARD Degeto on 1 July 2019. In this capacity, he is in editorial responsibility for the commissioning, co-productions and licensing of ARD Degeto in coordination with the management and also directs the programming and the press office of Degeto. Thomas Schreiber, the head of entertainment at NDR, thanked Pellander for his excellent work. 'What an incredible task — Congratulations, dear Christoph! One has to grab such a chance, good luck.

We will surely miss you at the Eurovision Song Contest as much as on other projects — but I'm glad to work with you in your new role at Degeto.' .: S!sters to represent Germany: Final to be broadcast in accessible format: Songs taking part in preselection have been presented #FBPoll: Michael Schulte, Revolverheld and Udo Lindenberg will become guest acts. NDR has published transcript of online-conference with participation of Christoph Pellander and Thomas Schreiber that took place on 8 January. Softice 4 5 serial number. ARD Entertainment coordinator explained that preselection show has been moved to Friday to avoid clash with other shows that include televoting (Next Topmodel and DSDS). At the moment, a broadcast of 120 minutes is planned. Each song will be heard once and then voted on. There will be two or three interval acts.

Michael Schulte will be involved, but may be in a different role. Subsequently, the results of two juries and the audience vote will be announced. Line-ups of jury panels will be revealed on the broadcast day. International jury is made mostly of people who were in the national juries recently and were close in voting for the favourites of the show. It is desired to have 20 international jury members from 20 different countries with a broad mix of ages. Tickets are on sale as of 10 January for 39 Euros and there are 800 seats in the hall. Participating songs will be released only on the day of the preselection, which is done to avoid any radio or other promotions and give equal starting field to all acts.

'There is no hip-hop, no rap and no country. There are very nice ballads and up-tempo numbers. Musically, the bandwidth is more localized in the field of pop, but none of them can be called mainstream. All of them have a message. There are also dramatic numbers and at least one song, where I can imagine tears', explained Schreiber. The running order for the show will be determined after the individual rehearsals take place. The staging of acts will be done by the same team which worked on ESC in Dusseldorf and was involved in staging of Michael Schulte's entry.

Artists were asked to send their staging proposals as well. Show will be directed by Ladislaus Kiraly, stage design by Florian Wieder, lighting designer Jerry Appelt and producer Matthias Alberti. Compared to the angled stage in Tel Aviv, stage of German show will be more square and the audience will sit around it. LED panels will also be used and there may be a little surprise on the wall, which can be used in Israel as well. NDR is in extensive talks with radio stations to promote German entry prior to the international final in Tel Aviv. It is possible, that chosen artist will do a radio tour through Germany stations.

The goal of the delegation is to get a top 10 finish in Tel Aviv.: Ask your question to the organizers of the preselection.