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The fifteenth season of the talent show The Voice of Germany premiered on 25 September 2025. The show is broadcast by two local TV stations, ProSieben and Sat.1, during the Blind Auditions and the Battles.
Shirin David, Rea Garvey, Nico Santos, and duo Michi & Smudo returned as coaches after one, two, three, and six-season hiatuses, respectively.[1] Calum Scott is the new “Comeback Stage” coach, selecting contestants to participate in The Voice: Comeback Stage by SEAT.[2] Thore Schölermann returned for his fourteenth season as host, with Melissa Khalaj returning for her fourth season as host.[3]
In April 2025, ProSieben and Sat.1 announced that all four coaches from the previous season; Mark Forster, Yvonne Catterfeld, Kamrad, and Samu Haber; would depart the panel for the upcoming fifteenth season. This marks the third season to have all coaches from the previous panel replaced, following season 13 and 14. On 20 April 2025, it was announced that previous coaches Rea Garvey, duo Michi & Smudo, Nico Santos, and Shirin David will return as coaches for their eighth, sixth, third, and second seasons, respectively.[4] This marks the first time since the second season that there has not been a new coach.
On 19 August 2025, it was announced that Calum Scott would be featured as a coach for the “Comeback Stage”, which was last present in season 11.[5]
Both Thore Schölermann and Melissa Khalaj returned as hosts from last season.
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| Coaches | Top 72 Artists | |||||
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| Rea Garvey | ||||||
| Max Pesé | Andrea Galleti | Brunel Raherinandrasana | Cara Kienzle | Christian “Keule” Haas | Joy Krüger | |
| Linus Bruhn | Luise Neubig | Trio ELBA | Alicia & David | Boysie White | ||
| John Cadelina | Julia Wolf | Ryan Bridge Madrid | Sarah Hübers | Viviana Milioti | ||
| Michi & Smudo | ||||||
| Bernarda Brunović | Lisa Asante | Karl Frierson II | Clifford Dwenger | Amelie Fritz | Jazzy Gudd | |
| Lily MacKay | Samira Hofbauer | Simone Kotowski | Christopher Mathis | Denisa Allegra | Felix Hellwig | |
| Jermain Joewaia Burford | Kevin Scheiwiller | Marlon Ernst | Pascal Wulfes | Rita van Nek | ||
| Shirin David | ||||||
| Ereza | Vasco José Mano | Oxa | Dustin Lukat | |||
| Igor Santos Barbosa | Maël & Jonas | Maesra | Daiana Vashakidze | Friedrich Häntzschel | ||
| Jasmine Lajeunesse | Kamai Karic | Manuël Stepanov | Marin Vrdoljak | Selina Yek | ||
| Nico Santos | ||||||
| Greta Heimann | Anne Mosters | Louk Jones | Marvin Tapper | |||
| Laura Kensy | Olena Slobodyska | Zeynep Avci | Eugenie Moine | |||
| Ikaros | Luciana Da Silva Alves | Marc Spitze | Nadia & Annika Schüler | Svenia Ribeiro | ||
| Calum Scott | ||||||
| Joelisa Serwah André | Vincent Rinne | Lara Samira Will | Denia Weber | Tina Ruseva | Sophia Brabetz | |
| Rachel Leggio | Salvatore Tocco | Tobias Dietzek | Gwendolin Reinicke | Benedikt Froihofer | Aura Ray | |
| Note: Italicized names are stolen artists that joined the Comeback Stage (names struck through within former teams). The underlined names are the “Comeback Stage” winners, who advanced to the Live shows. | ||||||
The Blind Auditions began broadcasting on 25 September 2025, and is broadcast every Thursday on ProSieben and every Friday on Sat.1. This season, the blocks returned, but with a twist. Unlike the previous seasons, each coach now only has two blocks that they can use to block another coach. However, they can choose to use the block at any time, even during their pitch. Only one block is allowed per audition; once a coach already used their block, the other coaches are not allowed to use their block. In addition, this season introduced the Joker. Each coach has a coin and is only allowed to use it once to try to further convince the artist to join their team. Each coach has seventeen spots to fill on their team, and, unlike last season, each coach filled their team. This is the second season in The Voice of Germany history where at least one coach (Shirin David in this case) does not have a one-chair turn on their team.
| ✔ | Coach hit his/her “I WANT YOU” button |
| Artist defaulted to this coach’s team | |
| Artist elected to join this coach’s team | |
| Artist was eliminated with no coach pressing their button | |
| Artist received an ‘All Turn’. | |
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Coach used Joker on this artist |
| Artist was eliminated, but got a second chance to compete in “Comeback Stage” | |
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Artist is an ‘Allstar’ contestant |
| ✘ | Coach pressed “I WANT YOU” button, but was blocked by another coach from getting the artist: |
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- ^1 Nico unintentionally hit the Rea block button when leaning on his podium, nonetheless, the block remained.
- ^2 Michi & Smudo originally blocked Shirin, but after the performance they took it back and the block was removed making Shirin eligible to be picked
- ^3 During the episode, comeback stage coach Calum Scott surprised the coaches by performing his own song, “You Are the Reason“, which earned him a four-chair turn.
The Battles began broadcasting on 23 October 2025, being broadcast on Thursday on ProSieben (first week only) and every Friday on Sat.1. Artists are divided into pairs (with each team having one trio due to having seventeen artists) to perform a song together. Each coach could select any number of candidates of each battle into the next phase, with each battle having one, multiple, or no winner. Each coach has nine artists on their team after the battles.
This season, a guest coach is present in each episode of the round: Joy Denalane for the first, Tim Bendzko for the second, Cro for the third, and Álvaro Soler for the fourth. In each respective episode, the guest coach awards one battle the “Battle of the Night” in terms of performance quality. The coach that has those artists on his/her team therefore gains an advantage in teamfights: the coach can block a challenging coach. The battle recipients of the awards were Joelisa Serwah André & Igor Santos Barbosa from Team Shirin, Oxa & Vasco José Mano from Team Shirin, Greta Heimann & Marvin Tapper from Team Nico, and Bernarda Brunović & Clifford Dwenger from Team Michi & Smudo.
| Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Teamfights | |
| Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated | |
| Artist lost the Battle, but got a second chance to compete in “Comeback Stage” | |
| Battle was declared the “Battle of the Night” by that episode’s guest coach |
- ^4 Since Rea Garvey had already advanced eight talents to the Teamfights throughout battles 1–3, he only had one spot, but two battles left, therefore after his last battle, Andrea Galleti and Julia Wolf were called back on stage and Garvey picked one out of the five (Galleti, Wolf, Ryan Bridge Madrid, Viviana Milioti and John Cadeliña) to advance to the Teamfights.
The teamfights were recorded on 6 and 7 July 2025. It began broadcasting only by Sat.1 on Friday nights starting 14 November 2025. In this stage of the competition, 12 artists appeared in each of three rounds. First, one artist per team sang and took a seat on one of four chairs called “hotseat”. Once these seats were occupied, the next artist challenged one of the seated artists, and after the artists’ performance, the studio audience decided who was allowed to take the seat. This process was repeated until all 12 had performed. The coach whose artists received the “Battle of the Night” awards in each episode of the battles gained the advantage of being able to block a challenger in this round; Shirin has two blocks to use, while Nico and Michi & Smudo have one each to use. At the end of each episode, the 4 artists seated at the end of each episode, from any team, advanced to the semi-final. A coach had the possibility to lose all of their artists, or bring all of their artists to the semi-finals. However, every coach was represented in the semi-finals and every coach did not bring their entire team to the semi-finals after this round.
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| Artist was immediately eliminated after losing the challenge | |
| Artist was seated, but swapped out later in the competition and eventually eliminated | |
| Artist lost the teamfights, but got a second chance to compete in “Comeback Stage” | |
| Artist was seated and advanced in the semi-final |
This season’s fifth coach, Calum Scott, selected artists who did not make a team during the blind auditions, as well as eliminated artists from later rounds of the competition, thus creating new rounds to The Voice: Comeback Stage by SEAT. The two winners compete in the live shows against the talents of the main coaches (Garvey, Michi & Smudo, David, and Santos), singing for a chance to win the fifteenth season of The Voice of Germany.
| Artist was immediately eliminated after not being seated | |
| Artist lost their seat and was eliminated | |
| Artist was seated, or remained in their seat, and advanced to the next round | |
| Artist won The Comeback Stage and advanced to the Live shows |
During the first round of competition, the four selected artists from Blind auditions went head to head, Scott selected two artists to sit in the Hot-Seats and compete against other artists that were eliminated in the Battles.
| Episode | Coach | Order | Artist | Song | Challenged / Replaced Artist | Hot-Seat |
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| Episode 7(16 October) | Calum Scott | 1 | Aura Ray | “Blowin’ in the Wind” | — | Put in Hot-seat 1 |
| 2 | Benedikt Froihofer | “She’s Always A Woman” | — | Put in Hot-seat 2 | ||
| 3 | Gwendolin Reinicke | “What Is Love” | Aura Ray | Put in Hot-seat 2 | ||
| 4 | Salvatore Tocco | “A Little Bit Yours” | Benedikt Froihofer | Put in Hot-seat 1 |
During the second round, Scott was to choose four losing talents, in the battle rounds to challenge the existing hot-seats.
| Episode | Coach | Order | Artist | Song | Challenged / Replaced Artist | Song | Hot-Seat |
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| Episode 9(23 October) | Calum Scott | 1 | Rachel Leggio | “Impossible” | Gwendolin Reinicke | “She Used to Be Mine” | Put in Hot-Seat 2 |
| Episode 11(31 October) | Calum Scott | 2 | Tobias Dietzek | “The Kill” | Salvatore Tocco | “Somewhere Only We Know” | Eliminated |
| Episode 12(7 November) | Calum Scott | 3 | Sophia Brabetz | “I Miss You, I’m Sorry” | Rachel Leggio | — | Put in Hot-Seat 2 |
| 4 | Vincent Rinne | “Break My Heart Again” | Salvatore Tocco | — | Put in Hot-Seat 1 | ||
In the third round, Scott chose losing talents from the teamfights to battle the current hot-seats.
At the end of this round, he chose two artists to advance to the Semi-Final of the main competition.
| Episode | Coach | Order | Artist | Song | Challenged / Replaced Artist | Song | Hot-Seat |
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| Episode 13(14 November) | Calum Scott | 1 | Joelisa Serwah André | “Love in the Dark” | Sophia Brabetz | “Soulmate” | Put in Hot-Seat 2 |
| Episode 14(21 November) | Calum Scott | 2 | Tina Ruseva | “The Door” | Vincent Rinne | “Falling” | Eliminated |
| Episode 15(28 November) | Calum Scott | 1 | Lara Samira Will | “Naked” | — | Eliminated | |
| 2 | Denia Weber | “Flowers” | — | Eliminated | |||
The semi-final aired on 5 December. Five artists out of the fourteen in the round progressed to the final, regardless of team. All decisions are made by television viewers via televoting. Due to the teamfights round prior to the semi-finals, this season is the third to feature an uneven amount of artists from each team entering the semi-finals: Team Nico and Team Michi & Smudo have four artists each, Team Shirin has three artists, and Team Rea has one artist. Team Calum joined the main competition this round, bringing two artists from the Comeback Stage to the semi-final.
| Artist was advanced to the finale from the public’s vote | |
| Artist was eliminated |
The finale aired on 12 December. This season featured five finalists (down from six in the previous season) who competed for the public’s vote to be declared the winner of the season. Each finalist sings an original song, a duet with their coach, and a duet with a guest singer.
| Coach | Artist | Order | Original Song | Order | Duet Song (with coach) |
Order | Duet Song (with special guest) |
Voting | Result |
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- Results color key
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| Artist | Week 1 Semi-Final |
Week 2 Final |
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| Joelisa Serwah André | ||||
| Lisa Asante | ||||
| Bernarda Brunović | ||||
| Clifford Dwenger | ||||
| Ereza | ||||
| Karl Frierson II | ||||
| Greta Heimann | ||||
| Louk Jones | ||||
| Vasco José Mano | ||||
| Anne Mosters | ||||
| Oxa | ||||
| Max Pesé | ||||
| Vincent Rinne | ||||
| Marvin Tapper | ||||
Contestants who appeared on other TV shows or previous seasons
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- Igor Santos Barbosa was a contestant in the 13th season of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” in 2016, where he was eliminated in the Semi-Finals and came in 5th place.
- Manuël Stepanov was a contestant in the 18th season of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” in 2021, where he did not reach the Recall.
- Eugenie Moine was a contestant in the 11th season of The Voice Belgique in 2024. She was a member of Hatik‘s team and was eliminated in the Duels.
- Viviana Milioti was a contestant and competed as a “Herausforderer” in the 14th season of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” in 2017, where she was eliminated in the recall finale in Dubai and placed 19th/20th.
Allstar contestants
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- Maël & Jonas competed in the tenth season as part of Nico Santos’ team and finished in third place.
- Christian Haas competed in the ninth season as part of Rea Garvey’s team and was eliminated in the Sing-Offs.
- Anne Mosters competed in the thirteenth season as part of Ronan Keating‘s team and was eliminated in the Teamfights.
- Bernarda Brunović competed in the eighth season as part of Michael Patrick Kelly‘s team and was eliminated in the Semi-Finals.
- Linus Bruhn competed in the fifth season as part of Stefanie Kloß‘ team and was eliminated in the Knockouts.
- Oxa competed in the ninth season as part of Mark Forster‘s team and was eliminated in the Semi-Finals.
- Jazzy Gudd competed in the fifth season as part of Michi & Smudo’s team and was eliminated in the Knockouts.
- Lara Samira Will competed in the seventh season as part of Samu Haber‘s team and was eliminated in the Semi-Finals.
- Clifford Dwenger competed in the eighth season as part of Michi & Smudo’s team and was eliminated in the Semi-Finals.
- Louk Jones competed, as Louisa Jones, in the sixth season as part of Samu Haber’s team and was eliminated in the Battle rounds.
- Zeynep Avci competed in the eleventh season as part of Johannes Oerding‘s team and was eliminated in the Quarter-Finals.
- Samira Hofbauer competed in the second season as part of Nena‘s team, in the duo Sami & Samira, and was eliminated in the Live shows.
