Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985


Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with the song "Für alle", written by Hanne Haller, and performed by the band Wind. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, Bayerischer Rundfunk, selected their entry through a national final. This was the first of three appearances by Wind at Eurovision; they would also represent and.

Before Eurovision

Bayerischer Rundfunk held the national final on 21 March 1985 at the Deutsches Theater in Munich, hosted by Wolfgang Mascher and Margit Geissler. 12 songs took part and the winner was chosen by a panel of approximately 500 people who had been selected as providing a representative cross-section of the German public.
DrawArtistSongSongwritersVotesPlace
1Jürgen Renfordt"Am Anfang der Zeit"Charly Ricanek, Jürgen Renfordt, Horst-Herbert Krause30739
2Susan Schubert"Sehnsucht nach einem Gefühl"Hanne Haller299410
3Conny & Jean"Du bist da"Swetlana Minkow, Cora von dem Bottlenberg298211
4Wolff Gerhard"Also lebe ich"Günther-Eric Thöner, Stephan Lego35723
5Wind"Für alle"Hanne Haller36181
6Heike Schäfer"Die Glocken von Rom"Ralph Siegel, Bernd Meinunger35972
7MoMo"So lange wir träumen, leben wir"Jean Frankfurter297112
8Sylvia"König und Dame"Andreas Bärtel, Tony Hendrik31138
9Günther Stern"Hier, da und überall"Hanne Haller32916
10Danny Fischer"Kinder der Erde"Joe Pöhlmann, Robert Jung32207
11Caro Pukke"Grün, grün, grün"Ralph Siegel, Bernd Meinunger35354
12Bernd Clüver"Der Wind von Palermo"Joachim Heider, Joachim Relin34245

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Wind performed 10th in the running order, following and preceding. At the close of voting "Für alle" had received 105 points, placing Germany second. The German jury awarded its 12 points to eventual contest winners Norway.
The show was watched by 13.22 million viewers in Germany.

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