The thirteenth season of the talent showThe Voice of Germany premiered on 21 September 2023. The show was broadcast by two local TV stations, ProSieben and Sat.1, during the Blind Auditions and the Battles. The rest episodes of the season were broadcast by Sat.1 only.
Malou Lovis Kreyelkamp was named The Voice of Germany on December 8, 2023, making her the first winning artist to have a coach blocked in their blind audition. This marked Bill & Tom Kaulitz's first and only win as coaches. Also, Bill & Tom became the fourth duo coach to win The Voice of Germany.
In the live semi-finals, Kool Savas, who served as a coach on The Voice Rap, joined as a coach to mentor his artist, Leon "Ezo" Weick, who had won The Voice Rap prior to the semi-finals.
The Blind Auditions began broadcasting 21 September 2023, being broadcast every Thursday on ProSieben and every Friday on Sat.1. New this season are the blocks, which were first introduced on the fourteenth season on the American version of the show. Each coach is allowed to block another coach thrice. Only one block is allowed per audition; once a coach already used their block, the other coaches are not allowed to use their block.
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Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button
Artist defaulted to this coach's team
Artist elected to join this coach's team
Artist was eliminated with no coach pressing their button
Artist received an 'All Turn'.
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Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button, but was blocked by another coach from getting the artist
^1 Yang Ge previously participated in the sixth season of The Voice Russia, where she was coached by Dima Bilan. She was brought to the finals, finishing in 4th place.
^2 Giovanni blocked Ronan, but Ronan did not press his button, so the block did not count.
^3 Bill & Tom tried to block Shirin, but was not possible, since Ronan already blocked Giovanni.
^4 Shirin blocked Ronan, but Ronan did not press his button, so the block did not count.
^5 Bill & Tom successfully pressed the block button on Shirin, but Giovanni had already blocked Shirin so the block didn't count.
Battles
The Battles began broadcasting on 20 October 2023, being broadcast every Thursday on ProSieben and every Friday on Sat.1. Coaches are divided into pairs (one trio in the case of Shirin's team, as she has only 17 artists in her team). Each coach could select any number of candidates of each battle into the next phase, with each battle having one, multiple, or no winner. Each coach has to remain nine artists on their team after the battles. This is the first time since season 2 that there are no steals in this phase.
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Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Teamfights
The teamfights were recorded from 23 and 24 July 2023. It began broadcasting only by Sat.1 on Friday nights starting 10 November 2023. [3] In this stage of the competition, a new mode was introduced: 12 artists appeared in each of three rounds. First, one artist per team sang and took a seat on one of four chairs called "hotseat". Once these seats were occupied, the next artist challenged one of the seated artists, and after the artists' performance, the studio audience decided who was allowed to take the seat. This process was repeated until all 12 had been performing. At the end of each episode, the 4 artists seated at the end of each episode, from any team, advanced to the semi-final. A coach had the possibility to lose all of their artists, or bring all of their artists to the semi-finals. However, every coach was represented in the semi-finals and every coach did not bring their entire team to the semi-finals after this round.
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Artist was immediately eliminated after losing the challenge
Artist was seated, but swapped out later in the competition and eventually eliminated
The semi-final aired on 1 December. All decisions are made by television viewers via televoting. Due to the teamfights round prior to the semi-finals, this season is the first to feature an uneven amount of artists from each team entering the semi-finals: Team Giovanni has one artist, Team Ronan has two, Team Shirin has four, and Team Bill & Tom has five. Unlike the previous season, this season will feature 5 finalists once again.
The winner of the spin-off series The Voice Rap, Leon "Ezo" Weick, who is coached by Kool Savas, also made it to the semi-finals. Weick previously made it to the Sing-off in the 10th season of The Voice of Germany in 2020 on Team Nico.
Due to votes being solely for the artist, it was not guaranteed that each coach would be represented in the finale. However, all four main coaches successfully brought their team to the finale. Ronan Keating, with the advancements of Egon Herrnleben and Emely Myles, became the third coach to successfully bring two artists to the finale in the history of the show. However, with the elimination of Leon "Ezo" Weick, Kool Savas no longer had an artist on his team, marking the first instance since season 5 that not all coaches are represented in the finale.
To start off the semi-final, the semi-finalists performed with Michael Schulte, singing "Waterfall".
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Artist was advanced to the finale from the public's vote
The finale aired on 8 December. Unlike the previous season, this season featured five finalists once again who competed for the public's vote to be declared the winner of the season.
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