Overview
- The jubilee edition will be broadcast live on Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 20:15 on Das Erste and ORF and is produced for MDR, BR and WDR in cooperation with ORF.
- Florian Silbereisen will host the show and says his stage nerves grow with each year even as he prepares to convert that energy for the live crowd.
- Producers published a large guest list that includes Helene Fischer, Roland Kaiser, Andrea Berg, Howard Carpendale and Dieter Bohlen, and they stress that final casting can still change.
- Bernhard Brink has reportedly canceled his appearance for a private reason, forcing the planned live premiere of his duet with Sonia Liebing to be postponed.
- Creator Michael Jürgens highlighted the show’s technical scale — Spidercam, lighting drones and a rotating hidden stage — and organisers point to franchise growth with reported but unconfirmed events such as a Munich New Year edition and 'Schlagerchampions 2027'.