The Masked Singer (German TV series)


The Masked Singer is a German reality singing competition television series adapted from the South Korean format King of Mask Singer. It premiered on ProSieben on June 27, 2019, and is hosted by Matthias Opdenhövel. The show features celebrities singing in head-to-toe costumes and face masks which conceal their identities from other contestants, panelists, and an audience.
On April 24, 2020, ProSieben announced the third season, which will begin airing autumn 2020.

Production

Format

In each live episode, celebrities such as singers, actors or athletes compete against each other in a singing competition anonymously in costumes. The voices of the celebrities are distorted beyond recognition outside of singing.
In the first season, viewers vote by Televoting after each Duel or Truel, in the second season only via the ProSieben-app. The winners may keep the mask on and participate in the next episode. With repeated or without repeated singing, the losers have to wait for the final vote of the respective show. The singer with the fewest calls has to take off his mask and leave the show. The others continue to participate.
In addition to the singing competition, hints to each masked singer's identity are offered during the show. Pre-taped interviews are given as hints and feature celebrities' distorted voices. The panelists are given time to speculate the identity of the singer after the performance and ask them a single question to try to determine their identity.
The opening theme is "Who Are You" by The Who. After a decision, a section of the song High Hopes by Panic! at the Disco was heard in season 1, from season 2 was heard Tonight by Kesha.

Costumes

The costumes worn by the celebrity contestants were designed by Marina Toybina, a four-time Emmy Award winner and by Alexandra Brander.

Cast

Panelists

Since the first season, the permanent panel has consisted of TV presenter Ruth Moschner. In the first season, the other two panelists were actor Collien Ulmen-Fernandes and singer Max Giesinger. In the second season, was singer Rea Garvey, replacing Ulmen-Fernandes and Giesinger.
There were also in every live episode guest panelists that appear as the fourth or third panelist on the series—occasionally for multiple episodes. In the first season, they were Rea Garvey, Elton, :de:Faisal Kawusi|Faisal Kawusi, Samu Haber, Sasha Schmitz and Adel Tawil. In the second season, they were Carolin Kebekus, Elton, Luke Mockridge, Bülent Ceylan, Conchita Wurst and Max Mutzke.

Host

Since the first season, host of the show is Matthias Opdenhövel.

Series overview

Reception

The finale of season 1 broke records for the highest market shares of all time for a ProSieben show format in the 14-49 age group in Germany and in the age group 12-49 in Austria.

Ratings

Awards and nominations