Overview
- Sarah Engels will represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna on 16 May with the song “Fire.”
- Engels says her team is scaling up staging, costumes and choreography for the larger arena after the national final.
- ESC commentators Thomas Mohr and Marcel Strober criticized “Fire” as predictable and not especially original, cautioning it may underperform.
- Social-media users compared the track to Cyprus’s 2018 “Fuego,” but music analyses reported significant differences and rejected simple plagiarism claims.
- Ex-husband Pietro Lombardi publicly wished Engels well, praised her voice and advised her to “just do her thing” in an RTL interview.