Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with the song "", written by Hans Blum, and performed by Ingrid Peters. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, (BR), selected their entry through a national final.
Before Eurovision
(BR) held the German national final, , on 27 March at the Deutsches Theater in Munich, hosted by Sabrina Lallinger and Wenche Myhre. Myhre represented Germany in the 1968 Contest.
Twelve songs made it to the national final, which was broadcast by BR to ARD broadcasters across Germany. The winner was decided by a sampling of 500 random Germans who were meant to symbolize a fair representation of the country's population. Each person gave every song a vote, from 1 (for worst) to 12 (for best). Therefore, the theoretical "worst score" a song could receive would be 500, and the "best score" would be 6000.
The winning entry was "", performed by Ingrid Peters and composed by Hans Blum.
Artist Song Songwriters Votes Place 1 That's Life "Telefon" 2,011 12 2 Günther-Eric Thöner "Du bist der Wind, der meine Flügel trägt" 2,893 9 3 Dschinghis Khan Family "Wir gehör'n zusammen" 4,088 2 4 Ingrid Peters "Über die Brücke geh'n" Hans Blum 4,236 1 5 Clowns "Clowns" 3,597 6 6 Steffi Hinz "Ich habe niemals nie gesagt" 2,769 10 7 Mister Fisto "Rein und klar wie's früher war" 2,102 11 8 Headline "Europa" 3,871 5 9 Margit P. "Der Sonne entgegen" Margit Petraschka 2,923 8 10 Chris Heart and Band "Die Engel sind auch nicht mehr das was sie war'n" 4,027 3 11 Joy Fleming and Marc Berry "Miteinander" 3,989 4 12 Tie Break "Kopf oder Zahl" 3,118 7
At Eurovision Peters was the fourteenth performer on the night of the Contest, following and preceding . At the close of the voting the song had received 62 points, placing 8th in a field of 20 competing countries. The German jury awarded its 12 points to .
The contest was broadcast on , with commentary by Ado Schlier. The show was watched by 10.88 million viewers in Germany.
Voting
+ Points awarded to Germany Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
+ Points awarded by Germany Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
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