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, they became the sixth new coach to win their debut season. Also, Bill & Tom became the fourth duo coach to win The Voice of Germany.
Panelists 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.
Teams +Teams color key Winner Eliminated in the Live shows Runner-up Eliminated in the Teamfights Third place Eliminated in the Battle rounds Fourth place Fifth place
+ Coaching teams Coaches Top 71 ArtistsGiovanni Zarrella Desirey Sarpong Agyemang Sorlo Hoffmann Johann Bardowicks Lizi Gozalishvili Impulso Tenors Elias Biechele Laura Schopf Dan Mudd Carlotta Bach Anna Vichery Lauren Mace Julia Szatmári Marius Hof Patrick Schmitt Kevin Smith Nicole Scholz Charles Johnson Thomas SchmidbauerBill & Tom Kaulitz Malou Lovis Kreyelkamp Joel Marques Cunha Marc Altergott Naomi Mbiyeya Niclas Scholz Tatjana Falkner Sebastian Zierof Alina Zamalieva Philip Hoffmann Kristin Witte Cemre PolatFelix DeegSina Lecking Max Schrut Luna Cavari Franziska Bittner Angela Peltner Cäcilia KubiShirin David Joy Esquivias Kim Schutzius Danilo Timm Finja Bernau Lorenz Haase Richard Vaupel Fritz Speck Linus Nehrig Yang Ge Moritz Steckenstein Rudy Chopper Süleyman Atar Chayane Coetzee Rouven Gruber Luca Grace Kampmann Justyna ChaberekKevin DerbasRonan Keating Egon Herrnleben Emely Myles Kimmy June Susan Albers Anna Ebner Alex Seeger Anne Mosters Simon Schmerbeck Jaqueline Bloem Felix Brückner & Kai Nötting Annemarie Schmidt Priti Pawar Katharina Bongard & Arestak Babakyan Vikrant Subramanian Oskar Jelitto Valentina Franco Lisa Christ Theresa Steininger Kool Savas Leon "Ezo" Weick
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. At the end of the blind auditions, Giovanni Zarrella, Bill & Tom Kaulitz, and Ronan Keating managed to complete their teams.
Like season 11, the coaches performed separately. Each coach performed a song before introducing the next coach following the conclusion of their performance. Bill + Tom performed "White Lies", followed by Shirin David, who sang "Lieben Wir". Giovanni Zarrella performed "Senza Te (Ohne Dich)", followed by Ronan Keating, who performed "Life Is a Rollercoaster".
+ Blind auditions color key ✔ Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button Artist defaulted to this coach's team Artist elected to join this coach's team Artist was eliminated with no coach pressing their button Artist received an 'All Turn'. ✘ Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button, but was blocked by another coach from getting the artist Blocked by Giovanni Blocked by Bill & Tom Blocked by Shirin Blocked by Ronan
+ Blind auditions results Episode Order Artist Age Song Coach's and artist's choices Giovanni Bill & Tom Shirin Ronan Episode 1 1 Carlotta Bach 17 "Ave Maria"✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Danilo Timm 35 "Landslide"✘ –✔ ✔ 3 Chiara Vogel 21 "I'm Outta Love" – – – – 4 Max Schrut 30 "Geile Zeit" –✔ – ✔ 5 Luca Grace Kampmann 24 "Valerie" ✔ ✔✔ ✔ 6 Umut Uysaler 26 "Someone Like You" – – – – 7 Felix Brückner & Kai Nötting 32 "Wildberry Lillet" ✔ ✔ –✔ 8 Sorlo Hoffmann 25 "Hinter dem Burnout"✔ – ✔ ✔ 9 Roberta Lorenza 55 "I maschi" – – – – 10 Yang Ge 34 "Truth Hurts" ✔ ✔✔ ✔ Episode 2 1 Kim Schutzius 29 "When You Believe" ✔ ✔✔ ✔ 2 Cheyenne Kadlubek 22 "Masterpiece" – – – – 3 Fritz Speck 18 "5 Meter Mauern" ✔ ✔✔✘ 4 Judy Rafat 74 "Smile" – – – – 5 Marc Altergott 16 "A Song for You" ✔✔ – – 6 Tana Wüthrich 23 "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" – – – – 7 Niclas Scholz 22 "Ace of Spades" ✔✔ ✔ ✔ 8 Priti Pawar 27 "Barbie Girl" – –✘✔ 9 Dennis Buskohl 31 "Bilder Von Dir" – – – – 10 Theresa Steininger 20 "Welcome to Burlesque" ✔ – ✔✔ 11 Impulso Tenors 2558 "Il mondo"✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Episode 3 1 Joel Marques Cunha 25 "Way Down We Go" ✔✔ ✔✘ 2 Ioanna Gkrigkorian 18 "Bang Bang" – – – – 3 Kevin Smith 39 "Auf uns"✔ – ✔ – 4 Lorenz Haase 22 "Eure Kinder" ✔ ✔✔ ✔ 5 Mirella Janev 21 "Mad World" – – – – 6 Elias Biechele 17 "You Will Be Found"✔ – –✘ 7 Patrice Godefroid 73 "You'll Never Walk Alone" – – – – 8 Patrick Schmitt 41 "Abenteuerland"✔ – – – 9 Richard Vaupel 20 "Can't Wait Until Tonight" ✔ ✔✔✘ 10 Lucie Fadinger 37 "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" – – – – 11 Anne Mosters 17 "Love in the Dark" ✔ ✔ – ✔ Episode 4 1 Lisa Christ 18 "Voyage Voyage" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Leandro Mendoza N/A "Un-Break My Heart" – – – – 3 Linus Nehrig 19 "Kiss Me"✘ ✔ ✔ ✔ 4 Chayane Coetzee 25 "Billie Jean" ✔ ✔ ✔ – 5 Laura Schopf 22 "Goodbye My Lover" ✔ – – ✔ 6 Egon Herrnleben 39 "Whiskey in the Jar" – ✔ – ✔ 7 Sabrina Sauder 38 "Wer Liebe lebt" – – – – 8 Thomas Schmidbauer 34 "I'll Be Waiting"✔ – – – 9 Sven Ablaß 52 "Stark" – – – – 10 Desirey Sarpong Agyemang 20 "You Broke Me First" ✔ ✔ – – 11 Valentin Schöppner 23 "Perfect" – – – – 12 Alina Zamalieva 18 "Nessun dorma" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Episode 5 1 Johann Bardowicks 25 "City of Stars" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Sebastian Zierof 39 "Into the Unknown" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 3 Anna Zivkov N/A "Side to Side" – – – – 4 Charles Johnson 64 "Purple Rain"✔ – – – 5 Emely Myles 33 "Cuz I Love You" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 6 Philipp Krenn 29 "Umbrella" – – – – 7 Joy Esquivias 25 "Symphony" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 8 Amanda Morena 28 "Chöre" – – – – 9 Cemre Polat 25 "Kleiner Finger Schwur" –✔ – – 10 Kei Lorenz 21 "Bad Memories" – – – – 11 Susan Albers 39 "I Have Nothing" ✔ ✔✘ ✔ Episode 6 1 Kevin Derbas 26 "Rise Like a Phoenix" ✔ – ✔ ✔ 2 Bianca Schnelle 35 "Er Gehört Zu Mir" – – – – 3 Valentina Franco 36 "Runaway" – – –✔ 4 Malou Lovis Kreyelkamp 24 "Rainbow Connection" ✔ ✔ ✔✘ 5 Patrick Smith N/A "Jessie" – – – – 6 Maximilian Qunaj 31 "Sneak Preview" – – – – 7 Jaqueline Bloem 34 "All of Me" – – ✔ ✔ 8 Majanko Bauer 27 "Breakeven" – – – – 9 Cäcilia Kubi 31 "Durch den Monsun" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 10 Alexander Fechtig 31 "You're Beautiful" – – – – 11 Julia Szatmári 36 "Feels Like Home"✔ – – – 12 Rouven Gruber 20 "Ich Will Wur" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Episode 7 1 Justyna Chaberek 34 "How Will I Know" ✔ ✔ ✔ – 2 Sina Lecking 21 "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" – ✔ – ✔ 3 Manfred Lohuis N/A "Human" – – – – 4 Marcel Rainprecht 22 "More Than Words" – – – – 5 Lizi Gozalishvili 19 "Earth Song" ✔ ✔ – – 6 Simon Schmerbeck 22 "I Guess I'm in Love" – – –✔ 7 Tatjana Falkner 25 "Holding Out for a Hero" ✔ ✔✘ ✔ 8 Dario Pellino N/A "Late Night Talking" – – – – 9 Vikrant Subramanian 34 "Both Sides, Now" ✔ – – ✔ 10 Tobias Enzl N/A "Bierle In Da Sun" – – – – 11 Angela Peltner 43 "Leuchtturm" –✔ – – 12 Alex Seeger 24 "Dancing Queen" ✔ ✔ – ✔ Episode 8 1 Naomi Mbiyeya 19 "Für Immer Ab Jetzt" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 2 Katharina Bongard & Arestak Babakyan 37 & 30 "Fall on Me" ✔ – – ✔ 3 Manuela Tayler 39 "Piece of My Heart" – – – – 4 Finja Bernau 20 "Denkmal" – –✔ – 5 Vivien Barman 24 "Don't Start Now" – – – – 6 Philip Hoffmann 24 "Circle of Life" ✔ ✔ ✔✘ 7 Johanna Löhr 18 "Let It Go" – – – – 8 Marius Hof 27 "Was Du Liebe Nennst"✔ – – – 9 Kristin Witte 20 "Gold" ✔ ✔ – ✔ 10 Adil Madougou N/A "Fly Me to the Moon" – – – – 11 Gabi Steinbach N/A "Rolling in the Deep" – – – – 12 Dan Mudd 44 "Hoochie Coochie Man" ✔ – – ✔ Episode 9 1 Annemarie Schmidt 23 "Afterglow" – – –✔ 2 Anna Vichery 39 "Ich hätt getanzt heut Nacht"✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 Joao Rodrigues-Pio 25 "Ex's & Oh's" – – – – 4 Lanya Al Gumur 21 "How You Like That" – – – – 5 Anna Ebner 19 "Rest der Welt" ✔ – –✔ 6 Asja Ahatovic 25 "Domino" – – – – 7 Felix Deeg 21 "Escape" –✔ ✔ – 8 Selina Schlier 26 "Feel It Still" – – – – 9 Oskar Jelitto 17 "Never Gonna Give You Up" – – ✔✔ 10 Luna Cavari 26 "I See Red" –✔ – – 11 Lauren Mace 38 "Flowers"✔ – – – 12 Dave Schaefer 55 "All Right Now" – – – – 13 Kimmy June 28 "Jolene" ✔ ✔ ✘✔ Episode 10 1 Rudy Chopper 28 "Unholy" – –✔ Team full 2 Franziska Bittner 23 "Rinnsteinprinzessin" –✔ ✔ 3 Sandra Exner-Niebergall 52 "Sleeping in My Car" – Team full – 4 Süleyman Atar 25 "Stärker" –✔ 5 Moritz Steckenstein 37 "I'm Like A Bird" ✔✔ 6 Aquilla Fearon 50 "You Are the Reason" – – 7 Nicole Scholz 27 "Call Me"✔ ✔
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.
+ Battle rounds color key Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Teamfights Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated