Eurovision Song Contest 2021
Jendrik Sigwart with a happy song about hatspeech
Jendrik Sigwart will start the ESC with "I Don't Feel Hate".
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Jendrik Sigwart will compete for Germany at the ESC 2021 with his happy song "I Don't Feel Hate". A catchy tune guarantee in the best sense of the word.
World premiere with catchy tune guarantee: Musical actor Jendrik Sigwart (26) will compete with his song "I Don't Feel Hate" for Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. On Thursday the artist presented – in a light blue shirt, dark trousers, black and white checkered stockings, silver sneakers and platinum blonde mohawk – the happy anti-hatspeech piece together with Thomas Schreiber, ARD entertainment coordinator and ARD team boss ESC, and Alexandra Wolfslast, Head of delegation for the German contribution to the ESC, to the NDR in Hamburg.
"I think it's super funny", the sympathetic, humorous and pretty fast-speaking artist said after the presentation of the music video and summarized the message of the song again: "You shouldn't react with hate to the hatred you get." Schreiber added: "This is the right song at the moment." In the cheerful, clunky clip, Jendrik Sigwart sings over six hate stories in front of a colorful washing machine backdrop. The hamburger with a weakness for the ukulele will explain the individual stories again in concrete terms via social media.
Incidentally, the artist with the "great technical security" (Schreiber) could not keep his ESC participation a secret, as he admitted at the press conference: "I couldn't keep it to myself. I told my friends and family. But everyone held tight, "said Jendrik Sigwart. The news had already been brought to him personally by Wolfslast and Schreiber in December.
First appearance and washing machine video premiere
The 26-year-old will celebrate his first big live appearance with the song on Saturday (February 27th at 8:15 pm) with Florian Silbereisens (39, "The Album") "Schlagerchampions", as the MDR announced. The music video will be officially presented on Thursday evening (February 25th) on the first before the daily news at 5:50 p.m. and 7:56 p.m.
ESC finals on May 22nd
The ESC will definitely take place this year, as the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), together with the venue and the Dutch broadcasters or companies NPO, NOS and Avrotros, had already confirmed. In 2020 the event in which Ben Dolic (23, "Violent Thing") should have competed for Germany had to be canceled.
The final of the Eurovision Song Contest will take place on May 22nd in Rotterdam. Das Erste and eurovision.de will broadcast live from 9 p.m. The two semifinals on May 18 and 20 from 9:00 p.m. will be broadcast live on ONE and on eurovision.de.