Every note was right for him: Sem Eisinger from Frankfurt am Main is Germany’s new “superstar”. The 29-year-old prevailed against Monika Gajek (21), Kiyan Yousefbeik (25) and the Swiss Lorent Berisha (19) in the third and last live show of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” on Saturday.
With Eisinger, the spectators, whose calls decided the victory, and the jury agreed. All four jurors predicted his victory. “You just sound blatantly disturbed,” said Katja Krasavice (26). Dieter Bohlen (69), with whom Eisinger is supposed to go on tour as a DSDS winner, said: “He sings me through the wall.” In the finale, Eisinger sang his first own song “Don’t Let Me Go”, which he dedicated to his father, who recently died, on the big stage for the first time.
RTL had not planned another appearance that evening: right at the beginning of the show, a spectator came on stage and wanted to grab the microphone from presenter Laura Wontorra. RTL later put a recording of the scene online. (Read more about the speedster in the DSDS final here)
Not everything went as planned for the singers in the final either. Monika Gajek, for example, had called in sick a few days before the show with fever and chills. You noticed that in her voice in the final, said Bohlen. Juror and pop singer Leony (25) said to Kiyan Yousefbeik that he was the “weakest singer” among the top four. Lorent Berisha, on the other hand, was praised by host Wontorra as “the goose bumps maker of the season”.
Contrary to expectations, there was no showdown between the jurors Bohlen and Krasavice: both had teased each other again and again in the past few weeks. The trigger for the differences is a scene from the current season, with which Bohlen was accused of sexism because he said to a candidate: “Did you do anything normal? Or did you just graduate and let yourself be noodled through?” But Wontorra put a stop to further disputes on Saturday: “We’re going without beef today, can we agree on that?”
As the winner of the show, Eisinger receives 100,000 euros and a record deal. Just like him, the other three finalists also recorded their own song. All songs were created in collaboration with Leony and the producers Vitali Zestovskih and Mark Becker.
As RTL announced on Sunday, the “DSDS” winner was ahead of all three live shows in viewer voting. In the final, Eisinger received 54.81 percent of the votes, Gajek got 18.52, Berisha 13.88 and Yousefbeik 12.79 percent. 2.35 million viewers tuned in to the big anniversary finale on Saturday evening (10.4 percent market share).
DSDS will start the 21st season next year, according to Bohlen, the casting has already started.
