"The Voice of Germany" - new season: A soft touch of planks

At the end a tears flow, a real tears from a real eye. Hah yes, sniff. But it is also moving: The 18-year-old Claudia Emmanuela, who has been living in Germany for a year and misses her family, sings the song of the evening in a red dress, "Never enough". You can hear her studying singing. And the family in Indonesia is watching - emotionally involved - via tablet. Top story for a casting show.

Then logically, the whole program goes off at "The Voice of Germany": All four jury members buzzer and want to have Claudia in their team. Alice Merton, one of the four, says, "I really cried for the first time on this show because it was so beautiful." The other three - rapper Sido, Mark Forster and Rea Garvey - also liked it. And then Claudia sings her song again. It was so beautiful. So a casting evening has to end.

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The ninth season of "The Voice of Germany" delivers so in the first episode "mega down", as the jargon of the casting shows so. A jargon in which, of course, not so many possibilities for differentiation exist, because the superlative is an alternative normal form. For example, Castingdeutsch means "to be completely flashed".

An "official treat" is missing

Even the candidates who retire in this premiere show no less than - exactly - "mega off", as they are reassured at the latest after their appearance behind the stage so that they can go home with their head held high and "next year can come back". There are, for example, three Twens who give the "Believer" in three voices. The four coaches do not knock it out of their seats. Mark Forster complains under his visor cap, it was "an official treat" missing, the appearance was "too good" been - what from the mouth of a man who has not reinvented the Rock'n'Roll now, at least a funny component Has.

But real low blows: no. And that is still the halfway special about this show in comparison with sometimes vicious competitive formats: No one is simply shown here just as a dork. Among the candidates who all want to be called "The Voice" in the end, not a single one who could not bring at least a dealership opening to shine. They are all there to sing and not to serve the lesser instincts of a public that is embarrassed by embarrassment.

With harmonica and mojo

In the end, next to Claudia, four other women and the 18-year-old Lucas continue, who appears in the three-part, puts his hair back, plays the harmonica and sings about his mojo - which is enough to be considered a "real bird" (Mark Forster ) go through. In addition, one of the outsourced gets a comeback chance with a fifth coach - an innovation with which ProSieben and Sat.1 extend the format to the Internet.

Whereby, a very slight breath of Dieter Bohlen could perhaps still blow through the freshly changed concept. Recently it was the case that retired candidates were not confronted with the opinions of the coaches. In this season, they are also giving their mustard to performances they have not convinced. This tends to be seen as a statement of respect in social media, but it can sometimes turn into a new harshness. For example, rapper Sido, a cast-in-the-wool man who is new on the show and immediately teases her off, says, "I could not say anything constructive," so he says, "I did not like it." You probably do not listen so much.

It's enough for a weekday evening

Markiger, however, it will not be that evening. That especially Sido could sometimes polite the worse candidates the twelve, as had been speculated in advance - no, does not happen, at least not in the context of the aired appearances.

And the sound, which the four coaches strike against each other, is also in the new jury cast of the Gefrotzels. "If you want to drink tea, go to Mark," says Sido about the 27-year-old Veronika, both Forster and he want to have in their teams - but the party takes place with him. Those are the sayings, well. For such a working day on the couch, of course, that's enough. If at the very end of a real tears "mega delivered" is.