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Eurovision Song Contest 1987
Eurovision Song Contest 1987
Participating broadcaster	ARD – Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)
Country	Germany
National selection
Selection process	Ein Lied für Brüssel
Selection date(s)	26 March 1987
Selected artist(s)	Wind
Selected song	"Laß die Sonne in dein Herz"
Selected songwriter(s)	Ralph Siegel; Bernd Meinunger;
Finals performance
Final result	2nd, 141 points
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest

Germany was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 with the song "Laß die Sonne in dein Herz", composed by Ralph Siegel, with lyrics by Bernd Meinunger, and performed by the band Wind. The German participating broadcaster on behalf of ARD, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), selected their entry through a national final. This was the second of three appearances by Wind at Eurovision; they had previously finished second for Germany in 1985 and would return to the contest in 1992. The Eurovision performance included future Milli Vanilli member Rob Pilatus as a backing singer.^[1]

Before Eurovision

Ein Lied für Brüssel

Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) held the national final on 26 March 1987 at the Frankenhalle in Nuremberg, hosted by Christopher Deumling. Twelve acts presented their entries live and the winner was selected by a panel of approximately 500 people who had been selected as providing a representative cross-section of the German public.

Other participants included the following year's German entrants Maxi and Chris Garden, and Michael Hoffmann, who had represented Germany in 1983 as half of Hoffmann & Hoffmann with brother Günter (who had committed suicide in 1984).^[2]

Final – 26 March 1987
Draw	Artist	Song	Composer(s)	Points	Place
1	Helen Christie	"Lieder der Freiheit"	Ralph Siegel, Bernd Meinunger	3,059	8
2	Michael Hoffmann	"Ich geb' nicht auf"	Günther Moll, Michael Hoffmann	3,190	5
3	Rouge	"Einer von uns"	Rainer Pietsch, Werner Schüler, Volker Constanz	3,166	6
4	Wind	"Laß die Sonne in dein Herz"	Ralph Siegel, Bernd Meinunger	4,445	1
5	Sandy Derix	"Träume tun weh"	Ralph Siegel, Bernd Meinunger	2,902	11
6	Bernd Schütz Band	"Visionen in der Nacht"	Bernd Schütz, Frank Hoppe	2,929	10
7	Michaela	"Das Licht eines neuen Morgens"	Rainer Pietsch, Bernd Meinunger	3,054	9
8	Bernhard Brink	"So bin ich ohne dich"	Joachim Heider, Gregor Rottschalk	3,355	3
9	Maxi and Chris Garden	"Frieden für die Teddybären"	Ralph Siegel, Bernd Meinunger	4,370	2
10	New Generation	"Viel zu schön"	Bernd Schütz, Frank Hoppe	2,864	12
11	Denise	"Die Frau im Spiegel"	Walter Gerke, Mick Hannes	3,320	4
12	Cassy	"Aus"	Ralph Siegel, Bernd Meinunger	3,126	7

At Eurovision

On the evening of the final Wind performed 16th in the running order, following France and preceding Cyprus. At the close of voting "Laß die Sonne in dein Herz" had received 141 points, placing Germany second of the 22 entries.^[3] Only Greece failed to award any points at all to the song. The 1987 result was very clear-cut, with Germany finishing 31 points behind contest winners Ireland and 38 points ahead of third-placed Italy. The German jury awarded its 12 points to Italy.^[4]

Wind became the first act, and to date still the only one, to have finished in second place twice at Eurovision.

The show was watched by 10.16 million viewers in Germany.^[5]

Voting

Points awarded to Germany^[6]
Score	Country
12 points	Denmark Iceland
10 points	Austria Belgium Finland Netherlands United Kingdom
8 points	Israel
7 points	Ireland Sweden Yugoslavia
6 points	Cyprus France Luxembourg Turkey
5 points	Portugal
4 points	Italy
3 points	Norway
2 points
1 point	Spain Switzerland