The Voice of Germany (season 8)

The eighth season of the talent show The Voice of Germany premiered on October 18, 2018 on ProSieben and on October 21, 2018 on Sat.1.^[1] Michi & Smudo, Yvonne Catterfeld and Mark Forster returned for their fifth, third and second seasons respectively. Michael Patrick Kelly was declared as the new coach, joining the show for the first time,^[2] replacing Samu Haber.^[3] Both hosts returned Thore Schölermann returning for his seventh season and Lena Gercke returning for her fourth season.

The Voice of Germany
Season 8
Hosted by	Thore Schölermann Lena Gercke
Coaches	Michael Patrick Kelly Michi & Smudo Yvonne Catterfeld Mark Forster
Winner	Samuel Rösch
Winning coach	Michael Patrick Kelly
Runner-up	Benjamin Dolic
Release
Original network	ProSieben Sat.1
Original release	October 18 (2018-10-18) – December 16, 2018 (2018-12-16)
Season chronology
← Previous Season 7 Next → Season 9

On December 16, 2018, Samuel Rösch was crowned the winner of The Voice of Germany 2018, marking Michael Patrick Kelly's first and only win as a coach.

Coaches and hosts

The Voice of Germany season 8 coaches

 

Michael Patrick Kelly

 

Michi

 

Smudo

 

Yvonne Catterfeld

 

Mark Forster

On May 19, 2018, it was announced that after 2 years Samu Haber would not be returning to the show. On June 20, 2018, it was announced that Haber was replaced by new coach Michael Patrick Kelly and returning coaches Michi & Smudo, Yvonne Catterfeld and Mark Forster.

Thore Schölermann and Lena Gercke both returned as hosts.

Teams

Colour key:

Winner   Runner-up   Third place   Fourth place

Eliminated in the Semi-final   Eliminated in the Sing Off   Stolen in the Battle rounds   Eliminated in the Battles rounds   Withdrew

Coach	Top 76 Artists
Michael Patrick Kelly
	Samuel Rösch	Bernarda Brunović	Matthias Nebel	Chantal Dorn	Sümeyra Stahl
	Liam Blaney	Monica Lewis-Schmidt	Ludmila Larusso	Guido Goh	Maria Pasqua Casti
	Laura Neels	Mario Geckeler	Fabian Riaz	Jélila Bouraoui	Philipp von Unold
	Samuele Di Dio	Lena Rotermund	Amanda Lena Jakucs	Gaby Schwager	Taylor Shore
Michi & Smudo
	Eros Atomus Isler	Coby Grant	Clifford Dwenger	Sascha Coles	Jeanie Celina Schultheiß
	Eun Chae Rhee	Fabrice Richter-Reichhelm	Kaye-Ree	Alexander Eder	Lia Joham
	Malin Lewis	Sebastian Stipp	Cem Kücük	Seda Acar	Mascha Winkels
	Felicia Peters	Igor Quennehen	Steffen Frommberger	Kinga Noémi Balla	Karina Klüber
Yvonne Catterfeld
	Benjamin Dolic	Linda Alkhodor	James Smith Jr.	Nora Brandenburger	Hugo Gonzalez Morales
	Andreas Hauser	Malin Lewis	Flavio Baltermia	Patrice Gerlach	Giuliano De Stefano
	Sascha Coles	Chantal Dorn	Mattis Laustroer	Florian Alexander Kurz	Luka Nozza
	Stefan Celar	Abdullah Azad	Doriane Kamdem Mabou	Juliane Götz	Shireen Nikolic
Mark Forster
	Jessica Schaffler	Diana Babalola	Rahel Maas	Damiano Maiolini	Misses Melaza
	Felicitas Mayer	Laura Neels	Dominik Hartz	Kira Mesterheide	Alessandro Rütten
	Alexandre Heitz	Melissa Muamba	Sinem Uraz	John Alexander Garner III	Penni Jo Blatterman
	Lars Kamphausen	Debora Vater	Johannes Holfeld	Judith Jandl	Mark Agpas
Note: Italicized names are stolen artists (names struck through within former teams).

Blind Auditions

Episode 5 (November 1)

Order	Artist	Age	Song	Coach's and artist's choices
				Michael Patrick	Michi & Smudo	Yvonne	Mark
1	Philipp von Unold	22	"Supermarket Flowers"	✔	–	✔	–
2	Kathrin Kay-Ree	39	"Is This Love"	✔	✔	✔	✔
3	Kira Mesterheide	22	"The Drugs Don't Work"	–	–	✔	✔
4	Philipp Fixmer	30	"Paradize"	–	–	–	–
5	Benjamin Dolic	21	"No Tears Left To Cry"	–	–	✔	✔
6	Eun Chae Rhee	23	"Gangnam Style"	–	✔	–	✔
7	Sirio Meier	20	"Jenny Don't Be Hasty"	–	–	–	–
8	Damiano Maiolino	27	"You Are The Reason"	✔	–	–	✔
9	Ute Spiegel	50	"Heart of Stone"	–	–	–	–
10	Mark Agpas	38	"Come Together"	✔	✔	✔	✔

Sing Off

The Sing Off determines which three artists from each team will advance to the final round of competition, the Semi Final. In this round, after an artist performs, he or she will sit in one of three seats above the stage. The first three artists performing from each team will sit down, but once the fourth artist performs, a coach has the choice of replacing the fourth artist with any artist sitting down or eliminating them immediately. Once all artists have performed, those who remain seated will advance to the Semi Final. The two Sing Off episodes was broadcast on 2 and 6 December.

Color key

  – Contestant was eliminated, either immediately or switched with another contestant

  – Contestant was not switched out and advanced to the Semi-final

Episode	Coach	Order	Artist	Song	Result
Episode 14 (December 2)	Michi & Smudo	1	Lia Joham	"Believer"	Eliminated
		2	Alexander Eder	"Ring of Fire"	Eliminated
		3	Kaye-Ree	"Grenade"	Eliminated
		4	Fabrice Richter-Reichhelm	"Keinen Zentimeter"	Eliminated
		5	Eun Chae Rhee	"Toxic"	Eliminated
		6	Eros Atomus Isler	"Roxanne"	Advanced
		7	Jeanie Celina Schultheiß	"Genie in a Bottle"	Eliminated
		8	Sascha Coles	"Breaking the Habit"	Eliminated
		9	Coby Grant	"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"	Advanced
		10	Clifford Dwenger	"Niggas in Paris"	Advanced
	Mark	1	Alessandro Rütten	"Hotter than Hell"	Eliminated
		2	Kira Mesterheide	"Jealous"	Eliminated
		3	Dominik Hartz	"Bye Bye"	Eliminated
		4	Jessica Schaffler	"Human"	Advanced
		5	Laura Neels	"Don't Leave Me Alone"	Eliminated
		6	Rahel Maas	"Zu Dir"	Advanced
		7	Damiano Maiolini	"She Said"	Eliminated
		8	Diana Babalola	"Nutbush City Limits"	Advanced
		9	Felicitas Mayer	"If I Wasn't Your Daughter"	Eliminated
		10	Misses Melaza	"Despacito"	Eliminated
Episode 15 (December 6)	Michael Patrick	1	Guido Goh	"With or Without You"	Eliminated
		2	Maria Pasqua Casti	"Happy Now"	Eliminated
		3	Monica Lewis-Schmidt	"Ain't Nobody"	Eliminated
		4	Liam Blaney	"Shotgun"	Eliminated
		5	Ludmila Larusso	"Who Wants to Live Forever"	Eliminated
		6	Samuel Rösch	"Auf anderen Wegen"	Advanced
		7	Sümeyra Stahl	"No Roots"	Eliminated
		8	Matthias Nebel	"Breakeven"	Advanced
		9	Chantal Dorn	"Lovesong"	Eliminated
		10	Bernarda Brunovic	"Lady Marmalade"	Advanced
	Yvonne	1	Giuliano De Stefano	"It's a Man's Man's Man's World"	Eliminated
		2	Patrice Gerlach	"Bubbly"	Eliminated
		3	Linda Alkhodor	"Tell Me You Love Me"	Advanced
		4	James Smith Jr.	"Earned It"	Advanced
		5	Flavio Baltermia	"I'm All Over It"	Eliminated
		6	Malin Lewis	"Brand New Me"	Eliminated
		7	Andreas Hauser	"Summer Is A Curse"	Eliminated
		8	Benjamin Dolic	"Stay"	Advanced
		9	Hugo Gonzalez Morales	"XO"	Eliminated
		10	Nora Brandenburger	"When We Were Young"	Eliminated

Live Shows

Week 1: Semifinals (December 9)

The semi final aired on December 9, 2018 – with three acts from each team performing. The public chose one artist from each team to advance to the final.

• Group performance: Rita Ora and Top 12 - "Let You Love Me"^[4]

Order	Coach	Artist	Song	Voting	Result
1	Mark Forster	Diana Babalola	"Crazy"	16,7%	Eliminated
2		Rahel Maas	"Schön Genug"	26,2%	Eliminated
3		Jessica Schaffler	"Head Above Water"	56,1%	Advanced
4	Michi Beck & Smudo	Eros Atomus Isler	"Another Love"	37,6%	Advanced
5		Clifford Dwenger	"California Love"	31,0%	Eliminated
6		Coby Grant	"Let It Go"	31,4%	Eliminated
7	Yvonne Catterfeld	James Smith Jr.	"Summer Love"	9,9%	Eliminated
8		Linda Alkhodor	"Scars to Your Beautiful"	31,6%	Eliminated
9		Benjamin Dolic	"Can't Help Falling in Love"	58,5%	Advanced
10	Michael Patrick Kelly	Matthias Nebel	"Wrecking Ball"	19,8%	Eliminated
11		Samuel Rösch	"Der Weg"	47,0%	Advanced
12		Bernarda Brunovic	"Free Your Mind"	33,2%	Eliminated

Week 2: Finale (December 16)

The final aired on December 16, 2018 – with one artist from each team performing.

Coach	Artist	Order	Solo Song	Order	Duet Song (with coach)	Order	Duet Song (with special guest)	Voting	Result
Mark Forster	Jessica Schaffler	5	"A Million Dreams"	9	"Einmal"	1	"Half Good As You" (with Tom Odell)	14.99%	Third place
Michi Beck & Smudo	Eros Atomus Isler	7	"Fly Me To The Moon"	2	"Zusammen"	11	"Thursday" (with Jess Glynne)	13.52%	Fourth place
Michael Patrick Kelly	Samuel Rösch	3	"In Diesem Moment"	6	"Auf Uns"	10	"Love Someone" (with Lukas Graham)	54.89%	Winner
Yvonne Catterfeld	Benjamin Dolic	12	"She's Out of My Life"	4	"Creep"	8	"Ruin My Life" (with Zara Larsson)	16.60%	Runner-up

Elimination Chart

Overall

Color key

Artist's info

Artist from Team Michael Patrick   Artist from Team Michi & Smudo

Artist from Team Yvonne   Artist from Team Mark

Result details

Winner   Runner-up   Third place   Fourth place

Artist was saved by the public vote   Artist was eliminated

Live show results per week

Artist		Week 1	Week 2 Finale
	Samuel Rösch	Safe	Winner
	Benjamin Dolic	Safe	Runner-up
	Jessica Schaffler	Safe	3rd Place
	Eros Atomus Isler	Safe	4th Place
	Bernarda Brunović	Eliminated	Eliminated (Semi Final)
	Matthias Nebel	Eliminated
	Linda Alkhodor	Eliminated
	James Smith Jr.	Eliminated
	Coby Grant	Eliminated
	Clifford Dwenger	Eliminated
	Rahel Maas	Eliminated
	Diana Babalola	Eliminated

Team

Color key

Artist's info

Artist from Team Michael Patrick   Artist from Team Michi & Smudo

Artist from Team Yvonne   Artist from Team Mark

Result details

Winner   Runner-up   Third place   Fourth place

Artist was eliminated

Artist		Week 1	Week 2 Finale
	Samuel Rösch	Advanced	Winner
	Bernarda Brunović	Eliminated
	Matthias Nebel	Eliminated
	Eros Atomus Isler	Advanced	Fourth place
	Coby Grant	Eliminated
	Clifford Dwenger	Eliminated
	Benjamin Dolic	Advanced	Runner-up
	Linda Alkhodor	Eliminated
	James Smith Jr.	Eliminated
	Jessica Schaffler	Advanced	Third place
	Rahel Maas	Eliminated
	Diana Babalola	Eliminated

References

1. "THE VOICE OF GERMANY STARTET AM DONNERSTAG 18. OKTOBER".
2. ""The Voice of Germany" komplettiert die Coaches mit Michael Patrick Kelly".
3. "Schade, schade. Samu Haber macht "The Voice of Germany"-Pause".
4. "RITA ORA ERÖFFNET DAS "THE VOICE OF GERMANY"-HALBFINALE – ZUSAMMEN MIT DEN ZWÖLF HALBFINALISTEN".

External links

• Official website on ProSieben.de
• The Voice of Germany on fernsehserien.de