DSDS final: viewers stormed the stage, Sem Eisinger won

Every note was right for him: Sem Eisinger from Frankfurt am Main is Germany’s new “superstar”. The 29-year-old prevailed against Monika Gajek (21), Kiyan Yousefbeik (25) and the Swiss Lorent Berisha (19) in the third and last live show of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (DSDS) on Saturday.

With Eisinger, the spectators, whose calls decided the victory, and the jury agreed. All four jurors predicted his victory. “You just sound blatantly disturbed,” said Katja Krasavice (26). Dieter Bohlen (69), with whom Eisinger is supposed to go on tour as the “DSDS” winner, said: “He sings me through the wall.” In the finale, Eisinger sang his first own song “Don’t Let Me Go”, which he dedicated to his father, who recently died, on the big stage for the first time.

Wontorra did not expect this disruptive action

RTL had not planned another appearance that evening: right at the beginning of the show, a spectator came on stage and wanted to grab the microphone from presenter Laura Wontorra. RTL later put a recording of the scene online. The 34-year-old reacted confidently: “De-escalation! Of course we want to treat our singing talents to the stage.” Security staff finally brought the man off the stage after a few seconds. According to the broadcaster, the troublemaker should not be unknown: the man had already interrupted a live broadcast of “Stern TV” and the “speedster” had already stormed the stage in “Schlag den Star” on ProSieben.

Not everything went as planned for the singers in the final either. Monika Gajek, for example, had called in sick a few days before the show with fever and chills. You noticed that in her voice in the final, said Bohlen. Juror and pop singer Leony (25) said to Kiyan Yousefbeik that he was the “weakest singer” among the top four. Lorent Berisha, on the other hand, was praised by host Wontorra as “the goose bumps maker of the season”.

dispute in the jury

Contrary to expectations, there was no showdown between the jurors Bohlen and Krasavice: both had teased each other again and again in the past few weeks. The trigger for the differences is a scene from the current season, with which Bohlen was accused of sexism because he said to a candidate: “Did you do anything normal? Or did you just graduate and let yourself be noodled through?” But Wontorra put a stop to further disputes on Saturday: “We’re going without beef today, can we agree on that?”

As the winner of the show, Eisinger receives 100,000 euros and a record deal. Just like him, the other three finalists also recorded their own song. All songs were created in collaboration with Leony and the producers Vitali Zestovskih and Mark Becker.

“DSDS” will start the 21st season next year, according to Bohlen, the casting has already started. Anyone over the age of 16 can take part – and for the first time applicants over 30.