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Germany will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The German entry will be selected through the national final Unser Lied für Israel, organised by the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).

As a member of the "Big 5", Germany will automatically qualify to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Background
Prior to the 2019 Contest, Germany had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest sixty-two times since its debut as one of seven countries to take part in. Germany has won the contest on two occasions: in 1982 with the song "Ein bißchen Frieden" performed by Nicole and in 2010 with the song "Satellite" performed by Lena. Germany, to this point, has been noted for having competed in the contest more than any other country; they have competed in every contest since the first edition in 1956 except for the 1996 contest when the nation was eliminated in a pre-contest elimination round. In 2018, the German entry "You Let Me Walk Alone" performed by Michael Schulte placed fourth of twenty-six competing songs with 340 points.

The German national broadcaster, ARD, broadcasts the event within Germany and delegates the selection of the nation's entry to the regional broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). NDR confirmed that Germany would participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest on 19 May 2018. In 2018, the multi-artist national final Unser Lied für Lissabon determined both the song and performer to compete at Eurovision for Germany. For their 2019 entry, ARD will organise a national final with the same procedure.

Unser Lied für Israel
Unser Lied für Israel (Our Song for Israel) will the competition that will select Germany's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The national final will take place in February 2019 in Berlin with between six and eight competing entries. The show will be hosted by Linda Zervakis and Barbara Schöneberger.

Format
The televised final will feature between six and eight competing artists with a candidate song each. The winner will be selected by a combination of public voting, a one-hundred-member Eurovision panel, and an international expert jury panel.

The Eurovision panel consists of one hundred members recruited through surveys on social media in order to reflect the taste of the wider European audience, and it participates in the decision-making process from the candidate selection phase to the televised final. The international expert jury panel consists of twenty members who previously sat on the national juries of their respective countries at the Eurovision Song Contest or participated at the Contest.

Competing entries
Artists were able to submit their bids from 19 May 2018 to 31 July 2018. NDR received 965 applications, and 198 were shortlisted to be considered in the selection process. The one-hundred-member Eurovision panel narrowed the shortlist to fifty artists, ant the international expert panel further narrowed the shortlist to twenty artists. These twenty artists were invited to attend a workshop in Cologne from 28 September 2018 to 2 October 2018. Six of the artists who participated at the workshop were selected to advance to the songwriting camp that took place in Berlin from 5 to 9 November 2018, and these six artits were revealed on 8 November 2018:
 * Aly Ryan
 * BB Thomaz
 * Gregor Hägele
 * Lilly Among Clouds
 * Linus Bruhn
 * Makeda Purple

The six competing artists met twenty four international songwriters at the songwriting camp:
 * 🇩🇪 Steven Bashir
 * 🇩🇪 Ricardo Bettiol
 * 🇺🇸 Kristine Bogan
 * 🇩🇪 Marcus Brosch
 * 🇩🇪 Lukas Droese
 * 🇫🇮 Axel Ehnström
 * 🇩🇪 Nisse Ingwersen
 * 🇬🇧 🇿🇼 Kelvin Jones
 * 🇬🇧 Richard Judge
 * 🇩🇪 David Jürgens
 * 🇩🇪 Michelle Leonard
 * 🇩🇪 Nina Müller
 * 🇩🇪 Dennis Neuer
 * 🇺🇸 Michael Ochs
 * 🇩🇪 Tom Olbrich
 * 🇦🇹 Tamara Olorga
 * 🇳🇴 Laila Samuelsen
 * 🇩🇰 Tim Schou
 * 🇨🇦 Jonas Shandel
 * 🇬🇧 Oliver Som
 * 🇩🇰 Thomas Stengaard
 * 🇬🇧 Duncan Townsend
 * 🇬🇧 Andrew Tyler
 * 🇩🇪 Tim Uhlenbrock