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| Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1975 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | ARD[a] –Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) | |||
| Country |  Germany | |||
| Selection process | Ein Lied für Stockholm | |||
| Selection date | 3 February 1975 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein" | |||
| Artist | Joy Fleming | |||
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| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 17th, 15 points | |||
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Germany was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song "Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein", composed by Rainer Pietsch, with lyrics byMichael Holm, and performed byJoy Fleming. The German participating broadcaster on behalf ofARD,Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), selected their entry through a national final.
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Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) held the national final,Vorentscheid 1975: Ein Lied für Stockholm, on 3 February at its Studio 1 inFrankfurt am Main, hosted by journalist Karin Tietze-Ludwig, already well known for hosting the international previewAuftakt für Brighton a year before.
Fifteen songs made it to the national final, which was broadcast by HR toARD broadcasters across West Germany. The winner was decided by nine regional juries with four members each. Each jury member would assign points 1 to 5 for their five favorite songs. The highest score a song could receive (with every jury member from every region voting 5 on one song) was 180.
The winning entry was "Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein", performed byJoy Fleming and composed by Reiner Pietsch with lyrics byMichael Holm. Other notable competitors included 1971 Contest winner Séverine, two-time German representative Katja Ebstein, past German representative Mary Roos, and Peggy March, well known in Germany and briefly in the U.S. for the song "I Will Follow Him".
| Draw | Artist | Song | Songwriters | Points | Place |
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| 1 | Marianne Rosenberg | "Er gehört zu mir" | Joachim Heider, Christian Heilburg | 86 | 10 |
| 2 | Peggy March | "Alles geht vorüber" | Ralph Siegel, Kurt Hertha | 128 | 2 |
| 3 | Peter Horton | "Am Fuß der Leiter" | Günter Ress, Miriam Frances | 79 | 11 |
| 4 | Die Jokers | "San Francisco Symphony" | Peter Martin, Werner Schüler | 57 | 12 |
| 5 | Séverine | "Dreh dich im Kreisel der Zeit" | Peter Orloff, Elisabeth Bertram | 97 | 7 |
| 6 | Joy Fleming | "Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein" | Rainer Pietsch,Michael Holm | 134 | 1 |
| 7 | Maggie Mae | "Die total verrückte Zeit" | Henry Meier, Georg Buschor | 97 | 7 |
| 8 | Werner W. Becker | "Heut' bin ich arm, heut' bin ich reich" | Klaus Munro, Werner W. Becker | 54 | 13 |
| 9 | Mary Roos | "Eine Liebe ist wie ein Lied" | Hans Blum, Ingetraut Blum | 115 | 3 |
| 10 | Ricci Hohlt | "Du" | Chris Juwens, Joachim Relin | 38 | 14 |
| 11 | Ricky Gordon | "Sonja, ich rufe dich" | Rudi Edelmann, Angie Richter | 37 | 15 |
| 12 | Jürgen Marcus | "Ein Lied zieht hinaus in die Welt" | Jack White, Fred Jay | 90 | 9 |
| 13 | Love Generation | "Hör wieder Radio" | Peter Schirmann, Gisela Kieler | 115 | 3 |
| 14 | Katja Ebstein | "Ich liebe dich" | Christian Bruhn,Michael Kunze | 110 | 5 |
| 15 | Shuki and Aviva | "Du und ich und zwei Träume" | Rainer Maria Erhardt, Jean Frankfurter | 108 | 6 |
Joy Fleming performed fourth on the night of the contest, followingFrance and precedingLuxembourg. At the close of the voting the song had received 15 points, placing 17th in a field of 19 competing countries.[1] It was the lowest ranking Germany had seen in the competition to this point, and would continue to hold the distinction of having the lowest ranking out of all the German Eurovision songs until 1991, when the German entry that year placed 18th. Joy Fleming later blamed her clothing and apparel for the low placement.[2] She stated that she would have preferred wearing trousers but thatHans-Otto Grünefeldt [de], entertainment program director of HR, forced her to wear a green dress and fake pearls instead.[2]
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