The Voice of Germany season 13

The thirteenth season of the talent show The Voice of Germany premiered on 21 September 2023. The show was broadcast by two local TV stations, ProSieben and Sat.1, during the Blind Auditions and the Battles. The rest episodes of the season were broadcast by Sat.1 only.

Giovanni Zarrella, Bill & Tom Kaulitz, Shirin David and former The Voice Australia and The Voice Kids UK coach Ronan Keating joined the show as new coaches this season, replacing the four coaches in the previous season. Thore Schölermann returned for his twelfth season as host, with Melissa Khalaj returning for her second season as host.

Malou Lovis Kreyelkamp was named The Voice of Germany on December 8, 2023, making her the first winning artist to have a coach blocked in their blind audition. This marked Bill & Tom Kaulitz's first and only win as coaches. Also, Bill & Tom became the fourth duo coach to win The Voice of Germany.

Coaches
On 6 June 2023, ProSieben and Sat.1 announced that all four coaches from the previous season; Rea Garvey, Stefanie Kloß, Peter Maffay, and Mark Forster; would depart the panel for the upcoming thirteenth season. This marks the first season to have all coaches from the previous panel replaced. At the same time, it was announced that Giovanni Zarrella, Bill & Tom Kaulitz, Shirin David, and Ronan Keating would all join the panel for this season.

In the live semi-finals, Kool Savas, who served as a coach on The Voice Rap, joined as a coach to mentor his artist, Leon "Ezo" Weick, who had won The Voice Rap prior to the semi-finals.

Hosts
Both Thore Schölermann and Melissa Khalaj returned as hosts from last season.

Blind Auditions
The Blind Auditions began broadcasting 21 September 2023, being broadcast every Thursday on ProSieben and every Friday on Sat.1. New this season are the blocks, which were first introduced on the fourteenth season on the American version of the show. Each coach is allowed to block another coach thrice. Only one block is allowed per audition; once a coach already used their block, the other coaches are not allowed to use their block.


 * Yang Ge previously participated in the sixth season of The Voice Russia, where she was coached by Dima Bilan. She was brought to the finals, finishing in 4th place.
 * Giovanni blocked Ronan, but Ronan did not press his button, so the block did not count.
 * Bill & Tom tried to block Shirin, but was not possible, since Ronan already blocked Giovanni.
 * Shirin blocked Ronan, but Ronan did not press his button, so the block did not count.
 * Bill & Tom successfully pressed the block button on Shirin, but Giovanni had already blocked Shirin so the block didn't count.

Battles
The Battles began broadcasting on 20 October 2023, being broadcast every Thursday on ProSieben and every Friday on Sat.1. Coaches are divided into pairs (one trio in the case of Shirin's team, as she has only 17 artists in her team). Each coach could select any number of candidates of each battle into the next phase, with each battle having one, multiple, or no winner. Each coach has to remain nine artists on their team after the battles. This is the first time since season 2 that there are no steals in this phase.

Teamfights
The teamfights were recorded from 23 and 24 July 2023. It began broadcasting only by Sat.1 on Friday nights starting 10 November 2023. In this stage of the competition, a new mode was introduced: 12 artists appeared in each of three rounds. First, one artist per team sang and took a seat on one of four chairs called "hotseat". Once these seats were occupied, the next artist challenged one of the seated artists, and after the artists' performance, the studio audience decided who was allowed to take the seat. This process was repeated until all 12 had been performing. At the end of each episode, the 4 artists seated at the end of each episode, from any team, advanced to the semi-final. A coach had the possibility to lose all of their artists, or bring all of their artists to the semi-finals. However, every coach was represented in the semi-finals and every coach did not bring their entire team to the semi-finals after this round.


 * Color key

Semi-final
The semi-final aired on 1 December. All decisions are made by television viewers via televoting. Due to the teamfights round prior to the semi-finals, this season is the first to feature an uneven amount of artists from each team entering the semi-finals: Team Giovanni has one artist, Team Ronan has two, Team Shirin has four, and Team Bill & Tom has five. Unlike the previous season, this season will feature 5 finalists once again.

The winner of the spin-off series The Voice Rap, Leon "Ezo" Weick, who is coached by Kool Savas, also made it to the semi-finals. Weick previously made it to the Sing-off in the 10th season of The Voice of Germany in 2020.

Due to votes being solely for the artist, it was not guaranteed that each coach would be represented in the finale. However, all four main coaches successfully brought their team to the finale. Ronan Keating, with the advancements of Egon Herrnleben and Emely Myles, became the third coach to successfully bring two artists to the finale in the history of the show. However, with the elimination of Leon "Ezo" Weick, Kool Savas no longer had an artist on his team, marking the first instance since season 5 that not all coaches are represented in the finale.

To start off the semi-final, the semi-finalists performed with Michael Schulte, singing "Waterfall".

Finale
The finale aired on 8 December. Unlike the previous season, this season featured five finalists once again who competed for the public's vote to be declared the winner of the season.

The show invited famous singer-songwriters including Nico Santos, Giant Rooks, James Blunt, Emeli Sandé, and Joy Denalane to duet with the finalists. Former coach Rea Garvey performed his song "Perfect in My Eyes" with the finalists at the start of the show.

Malou Lovis Kreyelkamp from Team Bill & Tom won the season, Marking Bill & Tom Kaulitz's first win as coaches. Bill & Tom also became the sixth new coach to win on their first season, following Max Herre in season 3, Michi Beck & Smudo in season 4, Michael Patrick Kelly in season 8, Alice Merton in season 9, and Johannes Oerding in season 11.

Elimination Chart

 * Coaches color key

Artist from Team Giovanni

Artist from Team Bill & Tom

Artist from Team Shirin

Artist from Team Ronan

Artist from Team Kool Savas


 * Results color key

Winner

Runner-up

Third place

Fourth place

Fifth place

Artist was saved by the public vote

Artist was eliminated