Sarah Engels has won Das Deutsche Final 2026 and will represent Germany at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest with “Fire”.
Sarah Engles wins Das Deutsche Final 2026
Sarah Engels won this year’s contest after battling it out in two rounds. The first saw the 9 acts being narrowed down by a professional jury to 3. In round two a pure televote saw the winner crowned.
Round One
| Running Order | Entrant | Entry | Result |
| 1 | BELA | Hertz | |
| 2 | Dreamboys The Band | Jeanie | |
| 3 | MYLE | A OK | |
| 4 | Ragazzki | Ciao Ragazzki | |
| 5 | Laura Nahr | Wonderland | |
| 6 | Malou Lovis | When I’m With You | |
| 7 | wavvyboi | Black Glitter | Top 3 |
| 8 | Sarah Engels | Fire | Top 3 |
| 9 | Molly Sue | Optimist (Ha Ha Ha) | Top 3 |
Round Two
| Running Order | Entrant | Entry | Televotes | Result |
| 1 | wavvyboi | Black Glitter | 34,15% | 2nd |
| 2 | Sarah Engels | Fire | 38,30% | 1st |
| 3 | Molly Sue | Optimist (Ha Ha Ha) | 27,55% | 3rd |
What is Das Deutsche Finale?
Over the years, Germany has used a combination of national finals and internal selections to choose their Eurovision representatives. In recent years, they have used “Unser lied fur (host city)” (translation – A song for (host city)). However, in 2024, they rebranded the national final to “Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale” (translation – ESC – The German final). Nine artists participated, one of which was chosen through the feeder show “Ich will zum ESC!” (translation – I want to go to ESC). The show used a 50%-50% split of jury and televote to decide the final results. Each international jury gave 1-6, 8, 10 and 12 points, then the German public vote made up the other 50% of the results.
Germany’s Eurovision Journey
Germany has been part of Eurovision since the beginning, debuting in 1956. Their debut entries were Walter Andreas Schwarz’s “Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück” and Freddy Quinn’s “So geht das jede Nacht”. Germany has appeared at every Eurovision except for 1996, which means they have been at more Contests than any other country. They have a long history of success in Eurovision, finishing in the top 3 an impressive 13 times. Germany has won the contest twice: Nicole won in 1982 with her song “Ein bißchen Frieden”, taking home 161 points. Their second win came in 2010, when Lena scored 246 points with her song “Satellite”.
Germany’s most recent Eurovision entry was Abor & Tynna with “Baller”. As Germany is part of the Big 5, they automatically qualified for the Grand Final. In the Final, the song received 151 points and finished in 15th place.
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Source: SWR
Photo credit: Claudius Pflug / SWR – ARD
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