Overview
- An ARD anniversary documentary, now streaming on ARD Mediathek with a Das Erste broadcast to follow, features new first‑hand accounts from composer Ralph Siegel.
- Siegel recalls that Nicole’s raw demo of Ein bisschen Frieden moved him to a crying fit, after which he declared, “We’ll win the Eurovision.”
- He says they cut the demo quickly with four or five instruments and that the 17‑year‑old singer delivered the song in a single, emotional pass.
- The film notes Siegel’s extraordinary Eurovision record — 25 entries across decades — and that he sat for the interview despite recent health problems.
- The documentary also traces a later shift in Germany’s approach led by Stefan Raab, whose selection method produced Lena Meyer‑Landrut’s 2010 win.