RTL: Time travel with “Germany is looking for the superstar”

Time travel with RTL: On Saturday evening, the long-running hit “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” started the live shows with a lot of nostalgia. This was not only because the motto of the first show was the 80s – but above all because of the return of moderator Marco Schreyl.

After a break of almost ten years, the now 48-year-old led the show again – to the delight of Twitter users. “You feel like you’ve been beamed 10 years into the past with the big stage and Marco #Schreyl,” it said, for example, “it feels a bit like the golden days of #dsds”, or: “Finally the old one again DSDS».

With DSDS “is like cycling”

Schreyl moderated the music show for seven seasons from 2005 to 2012, at times together with Tooske Ragas. When RTL rebuilt its big entertainment shows about ten years ago, Schreyl had to go, and he’s back in season 19. “My grandmother always said you always see each other twice in life,” he said. “It’s a pleasure to see you again.”

“You don’t forget that with DSDS,” employees would have reassured him, said Schreyl when he entered the stage. “It’s like cycling.” And indeed, it was as if he had never been away. Experienced, but with noticeable joy about his comeback, Schreyl announced the candidates on and off – and he also took as long to make decisions as he did back then.

He had to announce the first right at the beginning: The viewers decided that Dominik could take the tenth place in the top 10 that had become free – after a duel against Emine.

The place was available because the candidate who was supposed to take it, according to RTL, had hidden a suspended sentence for assault and was then thrown out of the show. Subsequent Dominik took his chance and may appear again next week. Domenico and Abi had to say goodbye.

Silbereisen as “DSDS captain”

Florian Silbereisen, the “DSDS captain”, as Schreyl called the head of the jury in reference to his second job at ZDF (on Easter Sunday he can be seen there as a “dream ship” captain), was sometimes strict (“You have the least at first Talent”), but also some private insights: He revealed what motto he had in his “quiet place” and after the appearance of candidate Gianni with the 80s ballad “Hold me now” by Johnny Logan, he felt his own lovesick remembered.

“That’s exactly how a beautiful love story ended for me,” said the 40-year-old. The fact that the 17-year-old can still laugh at this song is probably due to the fact that he himself has not yet had to experience a separation, suspected Silbereisen. Because it makes you laugh.

Silbereisen was with hit star Helene Fischer for many years, and they announced their separation at the end of 2018. However, he did not say whether he was referring to this separation with his statements.

Bohlen not included for the first time

And someone else was not explicitly spoken about that evening: Dieter Bohlen. The longtime DSDS judge is not there for the first time in season 19. RTL announced last spring that it would continue the show without him.

In the first live show, none other than his former “Modern Talking” bandmate Thomas Anders was a guest on the jury, which some viewers rated as a targeted tip against Bohlen. But Anders was unmoved, professional – and didn’t say a word about the colleague from the past, just said: “I never dreamed that I would be sitting here.” Someone wrote on Twitter: “He’s like Dieter – just different.”