Germany: Listen to Jendrik Sigwart's Eurovision 2021 entry "I don't feel hate"

Germany: Listen to Jendrik Sigwart's Eurovision 2021 entry
Thursday, 25 February 2021

  • Germany's Eurovision 2021 hopeful , Jendrik Sigwart, released today the song he will be performing in Rotterdam Ahoy next May titled "I don't feel hate".

    The German 26 years old act released today his song for Eurovision 2021 , I don't feel hate, an uptempo song with vibes of optmism running throughout the whole track. Jendrik conveys a universal message via its lyrics, urging people not to take in or respnd back to expressions of hateness coming from others. It sends the message not to absorb the negativity directed to you from other and face this kind of cases with compassion and positivity, otherwise part of the toxity and negativity we reply back can poison ourselves too.

    The song is composed by the act himself and received scored 11.82 out of 12 points from the two juries that contributed in the German internal selection. 

     

    A Few words for Jendrik Sigwart

    Jendrik Sigwart was born in Hamburg and has three siblings. He learned piano and violin as a teenager and studied musicals for four years at the Institute for Music at the University of Osnabrück. Even during his studies he appeared in various musicals, including My Fair Lady , Hairspray and Peter Pan . Sigwart also writes his own songs published on YouTube . 

    Aside from the musical stage, Jendrik also writes his own songs on his ukulele  with sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking texts in German or English and with refreshing catchy tunes. He then performs this accompanied by himself on the ukulele and accordingly most of the songs he can find are presented in acoustic versions.

     

    Germany in Eurovision

    Germany is one of the  Big-5 countries and qualifies directly to the Eurovision Grand final. The country has participated in every edition of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956, with one year’s exception back in 1996.  The country has won the competition twice, namely in 1982 and 2010.

    In 2018 Germany placed 4th in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon with Michael Schulte‘s  You let me walk alone , while in 2019 the duo Sisters represented the country and finished second last in the 25th place of the grand final.

    Ben Dolic was internally selected to represent Germany at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam with his entry Violent Thing. Unfortunately young act never had the chance to complete his Eurovision journey as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic.