Ein Song Für Deutschland

Ein Song Für Deutschland ("A Song for Germany") is an annual music competition organised by the German broadcaster NDR. It determines the country's representative for the International Music Festival.
The selection was first hosted for the sixteenth edition in the TUI Arena at Hannover.
It shows a lot of different genres, most being pop and ballads.
==Participation==
Many different songs and performers have entered Ein Song Für Deutschland since its debut. To be eligible, performers must have any connection to Germany - born there, raised there or have ancestry from Germany.
==Selection of contestants==
===Songs===
NDR begins looking for songs a few weeks before the start of the first semifinal of the attendant show.
The song can be in any language, any length and any music style. NDR prefers a huge variety of music styles to make the show more exciting.
===Artists===
NDR selects all the performers.
====Notable artists====
Luxuslärm have competed in the first edition. German casting show winner Aneta Sablik competed in the second edition, along with Madeline Juno, coming 3rd with her song "Like Lovers Do".
==Hosting==
The first host city was Hannover.
===Final===
The number of songs depends on the concept NDR has made.
A running order is decided by the competition's supervisors to ensure that similar songs and artists are kept apart in the final.
The winner will represent Germany in the International Music Festival.
==Voting==
The current voting format is a positional voting system similar to that used at the Eurovision Song Contest. XX international juries each award 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,12 to all songs. All broadcasters can vote too in the poll, where they have two votes each.
===Juries===
Juries can send an application to NDR, when it is announced that the lines for this are open.
Edition	Juries (in alphabetical order)
#01 	no juries were used
#02 	Bulgaria ,Cyprus,Georgia,Germany,Italy,Lebanon,Luxembourg,Ukraine
#03 	
#04 	
==Winners==
Edition	Artist 	Song 	Translation 	Position in IMF
#01 	Mia Diekow 	"Black Beauty" 	-- 	5th
#02 	Madeline Juno 	"Day One" 	-- 	3rd
#03 	Kerstin Merlin	"Himmel und Hölle"	Heaven and hell	3rd
#04 	Elaiza 	"Green" 	-- 	TBA
#05 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA