# X Factor (German TV series) season 1

The first Season of X Factor was started in 2010. The auditions were held in April 2010. The first show started on 20 August 2010. The Judges are Sarah Connor (16-24), George Glueck (Groups) and Till Brönner (25+).
There are four phases: 1. Auditions 2. Bootcamp 3. Judge's House 4. Live Shows

## Judge's House

The 18 acts who reached the Judge's Houses
* Brönner's acts (over 25): Anthony Thet, Denise Modjallal, Sven Merckel, Meral Al-Mer, Edita Abdieski and Alexander Knappe
* Connor's acts (16-24): Pino Severino, Mati Gavriel, Hendrik Ehrenthal, Caprice Edwards, Marlon Bertzbach and Maximilian Brands
* Gluek's acts (Groups): Drop-Dead-Dinky-Di, Big Soul, Urban Candy, LaFamille, Karma and Predestination
Nine of the 18 acts were eliminated with the 9 remaining moving to the live shows, three from each category. The eliminated acts were:
* (Over 25-s): Alexander Knappe, Denise Modjallal, Sven Merckel
* (16-24s): Caprice Edwards, Hendrik Ehrental, Maximilian Brands
* (Groups): Predestination, Karma, Drop-Dead-Dinky-Di

## Contestants

The live shows commenced on 21 September 2010. The following artists made it to the live shows. Ages are as of the date of the show (2010).
Key:
    – Winner
    – Runner-up
| Category (mentor) | Acts | Acts | Acts |
| 16–24s (Connor) | Marlon Bertzbach (18) | Mati Gavriel (24) | Pino Severino (18) |
| 25-and-overs (Brönner) | Anthony Thet (30) | Edita Abdieski (25) | Meral Al-Mer (29) |
| Groups (Glueck) | Big Soul | LaFamille | Urban Candy |
Big Soul consist of Nadine (28), Alexandra (33), Martina (33), and Michelle (35). LaFamille consist of Joel (35), Erkan (32) & Guido (31). Urban Candy consists of Roman (26), Marc (24) & Candy (25).

## Results table

Contestants' colour key:
    – Till Brönner's contestants (over 25s)  – Sarah Connor's contestants (16–24s)  – George Glueck's contestants (groups)  – Bottom two  – Eliminated without a final showdown  – Contestant became the Runner-Up  – Highest Vote of a Week
| | | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 |
| | Edita Abdieski | 4th 13.92% | 5th 12.91% | 3rd 15.33% | 3rd 18.15% | 3rd 19.43% | 1st 27.42% | 1st 41.53% | Winner 74.10% |
| | Big Soul | 1st 25.00% | 1st 25.52% | 1st 22.40% | 2nd 19.50% | 2nd 22.50% | 4th 23.19% | 2nd 30.18% | Runner-Up 25.90% |
| | Mati Gavriel | 5th 10.36% | 4th 13.53% | 5th 10.71% | 4th 16.33% | 5th 14.90% | 2nd 25.05% | 3rd 28.29% | Eliminated (Week 7) |
| | Anthony Thet | 6th 7.04% | 2nd 14.62% | 4th 11.55% | 5th 16.31% | 1st 27.02% | 3rd 24.34% | Eliminated (Week 6) | Eliminated (Week 6) |
| | Marlon Bertzbach | 2nd 18.87% | 3rd 13.89% | 6th 10.52% | 1st 20.25% | 4th 16.15% | Eliminated (Week 5) | Eliminated (Week 5) | Eliminated (Week 5) |
| | Pino Severino | 3rd 15.24% | 7th 7.04% | 2nd 20.94% | 6th 9.46% | Eliminated (Week 4) | Eliminated (Week 4) | Eliminated (Week 4) | Eliminated (Week 4) |
| | Urban Candy | 7th 6.08% | 6th 9.21% | 7th 8.55% | Eliminated (Week 3) | Eliminated (Week 3) | Eliminated (Week 3) | Eliminated (Week 3) | Eliminated (Week 3) |
| | Meral Al-Mer | 8th 1.80% | 8th 2.28% | Eliminated (Week 2) | Eliminated (Week 2) | Eliminated (Week 2) | Eliminated (Week 2) | Eliminated (Week 2) | Eliminated (Week 2) |
| | LaFamille | 9th 1.69% | Eliminated (Week 1) | Eliminated (Week 1) | Eliminated (Week 1) | Eliminated (Week 1) | Eliminated (Week 1) | Eliminated (Week 1) | Eliminated (Week 1) |
| Bottom two | Bottom two | Meral Al-Mer, LaFamille | Meral Al-Mer, Pino Severino | Marlon Bertzbach, Urban Candy | Anthony Thet, Pino Severino | Marlon Bertzbach, Mati Gavriel | Anthony Thet, Big Soul | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins |
| | Brönner's vote to eliminate | LaFamille | Pino Severino | Urban Candy | Pino Severino | Marlon Bertzbach | Big Soul | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins |
| | Connors's vote to eliminate | LaFamille | Meral Al-Mer | Urban Candy | Anthony Thet | Marlon Bertzbach | Anthony Thet | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins |
| | Glueck's vote to eliminate | Meral Al-Mer | Meral Al-Mer | Marlon Bertzbach | Pino Severino | Marlon Bertzbach | Anthony Thet | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who is eliminated and who ultimately wins |
| Eliminated | Eliminated | LaFamille 2 of 3 votes | Meral Al-Mer 2 of 3 votes | Urban Candy 2 of 3 votes | Pino Severino 2 of 3 votes | Marlon Bertzbach 3 of 3 votes | Anthony Thet 2 of 3 votes | Mati Gavriel 28,29% to save | Big Soul 25,90% to win |
| Eliminated | Eliminated | LaFamille 2 of 3 votes | Meral Al-Mer 2 of 3 votes | Urban Candy 2 of 3 votes | Pino Severino 2 of 3 votes | Marlon Bertzbach 3 of 3 votes | Anthony Thet 2 of 3 votes | Mati Gavriel 28,29% to save | Edita Abdieski 74,10% to win |

## Live show details
### Week 1 (21 September 2010)

* Theme: Playlist 2010
* Celebrity Performer: Enrique Iglesias ("I Like It")
Contestants' performances on the first live show :
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
| Anthony Thet | 1 | "Secrets" | Safe |
| LaFamille | 2 | "In My Head" | Bottom two |
| Mati Gavriel | 3 | "Undisclosed Desires" | Safe |
| Edita Abdieski | 4 | "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" | Safe |
| Urban Candy | 5 | "Meet Me Halfway" | Safe |
| Pino Severino | 6 | "She Said" | Safe |
| Meral Al-Mer | 7 | "Elektrisches Gefühl" | Bottom two |
| Big Soul | 8 | "Bad Boys" | Safe |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 9 | "I Like" | Safe |
| Final showdown details ||||
| Meral Al-Mer | 1 | "Ein Herz kann man nicht reparieren" | Safe |
| LaFamille | 2 | "Change" | Eliminated |

#### Judges' votes to eliminate

* Brönner: LaFamille, backed his own act Meral Al-Mer
* Connor: LaFamille, due to the lack of surprise and potential
* Glueck: Meral Al-Mer, backed his own act LaFamille

### Week 2 (28 September 2010)

* Theme: Blockbuster Night
* Celebrity Performer: Hurts ("Wonderful Life")
Contestants' performances on the second live show :
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
| Pino Severino | 1 | "Killer/Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" | Bottom two |
| Urban Candy | 2 | "Crazy in Love" | Safe |
| Meral Al-Mer | 3 | "Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann" | Bottom two |
| Anthony Thet | 4 | "Purple Rain" | Safe |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 5 | "The Blower's Daughter" | Safe |
| Edita Abdieski | 6 | "Street Life" | Safe |
| Mati Gavriel | 7 | "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" | Safe |
| Big Soul | 8 | "Think" | Safe |
| Final showdown details ||||
| Meral Al-Mer | 1 | "Young Hearts Run Free" | Eliminated |
| Pino Severino | 2 | "Stop Me" | Safe |

#### Judges' votes to eliminate

* Brönner: Pino Severino, backed his own act Meral Al-Mer
* Connor: Meral Al-Mer, backed her own act Pino Severino
* Glueck: Meral Al-Mer, because of missing singing abilities

### Week 3 (5 October 2010)

* Theme: King & Queens of Pop
* Celebrity Performer: Seal ("Secret")
Contestants' performances on the third live show :
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
| Edita Abdieski | 1 | "Respect" | Safe |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 2 | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" | Bottom two |
| Urban Candy | 3 | "Geh' davon aus" | Bottom two |
| Mati Gavriel | 4 | "Don't Stop Me Now" | Safe |
| Pino Severino | 5 | "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" | Safe |
| Anthony Thet | 6 | "I'll Be Waiting" | Safe |
| Big Soul | 7 | "Free Your Mind" | Safe |
| Final showdown details ||||
| Marlon Bertzbach | 1 | "Last Request" | Safe |
| Urban Candy | 2 | "Ding" | Eliminated |

#### Judges' votes to eliminate

* Brönner: Urban Candy, because they can't deliver their message and don't feel united as a group
* Connor: Urban Candy, backed her own act Marlon Bertzbach
* Glueck: Marlon Bertzbach, backed his own act Urban Candy

### Week 4 (12 October 2010)

* Theme: Mystery Night
* Celebrity Performers: Usher ("DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love") and Culcha Candela ("Move It")
Contestants' performances on the fourth live show :
| Act | Order | Song | Result |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 1 | "Zombie" | Safe |
| Edita Abdieski | 2 | "Heavy Cross" | Safe |
| Pino Severino | 3 | "Sympathy for the Devil" | Bottom two |
| Mati Gavriel | 4 | "Hallelujah" | Safe |
| Big Soul | 5 | "Thriller" | Safe |
| Anthony Thet | 6 | "Black Hole Sun" | Bottom two |
| Final showdown details ||||
| Anthony Thet | 1 | "My Love Is Your Love" | Safe |
| Pino Severino | 2 | "The Climb" | Eliminated |

#### Judges' votes to eliminate

* Brönner: Pino Severino, backed his own act Anthony Thet
* Connor: Anthony Thet, backed her own act Pino Severino
* Glueck: Pino Severino, because of his second bottom two appearance

### Week 5 (19 October 2010)

* Theme: Loud vs. Quiet
* Celebrity Performers: Till Brönner ("Summer Breeze")
Contestants' performances on the fifth live show :
| Act | Order | Loud Song | Quiet Song | Result |
| Mati Gavriel | 1 | "Song 2" | "Sexed Up" | Bottom two |
| Big Soul | 2 | "Sex on Fire" | "One" | Safe |
| Anthony Thet | 3 | "Walk This Way" | "Under the Bridge" | Safe |
| Edita Abdieski | 4 | "Just Like a Pill" | "Russian Roulette" | Safe |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 5 | "Closer to the Edge" | "Nothing Else Matters" | Bottom two |
| Final showdown details |||||
| Act | Order | Song | Song | Result |
| Marlon Bertzbach | 1 | "Feeling Good" | "Feeling Good" | Eliminated |
| Mati Gavriel | 2 | "Hurt" | "Hurt" | Safe |

#### Judge's vote to eliminate

* Brönner: Marlon Bertzbach
* Connor: Marlon Bertzbach
* Glueck: Marlon Bertzbach

### Week 6 (26 October 2010)

* Theme: A night at the club
* Celebrity Performers: Sarah Connor ("Real Love")
Contestants' performances on the sixth live show :
| Act | Order | Song 1 | Song 2 | Result |
| Big Soul | 1 | "It's Raining Men" | "From Zero to Hero" | Bottom two |
| Anthony Thet | 2 | "When Love Takes Over" | "Give It to Me Right" | Bottom two |
| Edita Abdieski | 3 | "Why Don't You Love Me" | "Release Me" | Safe |
| Mati Gavriel | 4 | "Music" | "California Gurls" | Safe |
| Final showdown details |||||
| Act | Order | Song | Song | Result |
| Anthony Thet | 1 | "Never Ever" | "Never Ever" | Eliminated |
| Big Soul | 2 | "You Can't Hurry Love" | "You Can't Hurry Love" | Safe |

#### Judge's vote to eliminate

* Brönner: Big Soul, backed his own act Anthony Thet
* Connor: Anthony Thet
* Glueck: Anthony Thet, backed his own act Big Soul

### Week 7 (2 November 2010)

* Theme: Michael Jackson & Friends
* Celebrity Performers: Gossip ("Men in Love") and Flo Rida ("Club Can't Handle Me")
* Group Performance: "Over the Rainbow"
* The act with the fewest votes was eliminated from the competition.
Contestants' performances on the seventh live show :
| Act | Order | Friends Song | Order | Jackson Song | Result |
| Edita Abdieski | 1 | "You Are So Beautiful" | 4 | "Blame It on the Boogie" | Safe |
| Mati Gavriel | 2 | "Imagine" | 5 | "You Are Not Alone" | Eliminated |
| Big Soul | 3 | "As" | 6 | "I'll Be There" | Safe |

### Week 8 (9 November 2010)

* Theme: Final
* Celebrity Performers: "Loca" (Shakira) and "Bitte Hör nicht auf zu träumen" (Xavier Naidoo) and "Break my Chains" (Sarah Connor)
* Group Performance (Top 9): "Back for Good"
* The Celebrity Guests performed with one act.
Contestants' performances on the eighth live show :
| Act | Order | Song | Order | Celebrity Duet | Order | Winner's Song | Result |
| Big Soul | 1 | "That's What Friends Are For" | 3 | "Underneath Your Clothes" (with Shakira) | 5 | "I've come to Life" | Runner-Up |
| Edita Abdieski | 2 | "Run" | 4 | "Wo willst du hin?" (with Xavier Naidoo) | 6 | "I've come to Life" | Winner |