Abor & Tynna have won the very first edition of 'Chefsache ESC' in Germany and will represent the country at Basel 2025 with the song 'Baller'.

Coming to us live from Cologne, the German Eurovision pre-selection treated us to an evening of Eurovision-themed entertainment that lasted just over three hours, culminating in Germany finding the song and artist that will represent them at Basel 2025.

9 artists performed the songs that they hoped would be given the chance to represent Germany in May.

The Deutsche have decided! Abor & Tynna will fly the German flag in Basel this May, with the song Baller .

Initially, it was a jury (made up of Stefan Raab, Conchita Wurst, Yvonne Catterfeld and Nico Santos) that voted and decided on 5 of the 9 acts that would move on to the next round. Abor & Tynna moved onto this stage, along with competitors LEONORA, LYZA, Moss Kena and The Great Leslie.

In the second and final round, it was the audience alone that decided on the song that would represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contes in Basel.

Baller by Abor & Tynna claimed the Chefsache ESC crown with a huge 34.9% of votes going towards the song.

Abor & Tynna

The brother and sister duo Abor & Tynna come from a family of musicians based in Vienna. Their father, a cellist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, influenced them from an early age and they both learnt to play classical instruments very young.

They wrote their first songs together in 2016, and their musical career has taken them from family evenings in the classroom to gigs in Vienna, Berlin and Hanover. In 2024 they supported Nina Chuba on tour.

Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest

Germany has the most impressive Eurovision Song Contest attendance rate of any nation, having participated on all but one occasion since the inaugural show in 1956.

Their debut entries were Walter Andreas Schwarz’s Im Wartesaal Zum Großen Glück ('In The Waiting Room for Great Luck') and Freddy Quinn’s So Geht Das Jede Nacht ('That’s How It Is Every Night'), as broadcasters could field two songs at the first Contest.

The country’s most successful decade was the 1980s when they scored a first victory thanks to Nicole’s Ein Bißchen Frieden (in Harrogate 1982), and finished as runner-up on four occasions (in 1980, 1981, 1985, and 1987).

A second German win came in 2010 when Satellite topped the scoreboard in Oslo where it was performed by pop sensation Lena. She would go on to defend her crown with a new song, Taken By A Stranger , when Germany hosted the following year in Düsseldorf.