Germany's Next Topmodel season 2
| Germany's Next Topmodel season 2 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality television |
| Created by | Tyra Banks |
| Presented by | Heidi Klum |
| Judges | Heidi Klum Bruce Darnell Peyman Amin Boris Entrup |
| Theme music composer | Gia Farrell, Brian Kierulf, Josh Schwartz |
| Opening theme | "Hit Me Up" |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original languages | German, English |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Tresor TV |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 135 minutes incl. commercials |
| Original release | |
| Network | ProSieben |
| Release | March 01, 2007 – May 31, 2007 |
Germany's Next Topmodel Cycle 2, started airing on March 01, 2007 with a batch of 15 fresh wannabe models and the judges that would determine the winner. Two girls, Sophie and Alina, left after the second episode after deciding that their education was more important. Tonia Michaely and Denise Dahinten replaced the two contestants. This season was commercially presented by Opel Tigra Twin Top and Staatl. Fachingen.
Episode Summaries
- Episode titles as credited on ProSieben website. [1]
Episode 1: Welche 15 Mädchen werden es in die nächste Runde schaffen?
Out of over 16,000 applicants, the judges selected 100 girls as semi-finalists, who then had to prove themselves in a model castings. The applicants had only 2 minutes to win over the judges with their charisma and personality. From the 100, 25 were chosen, and given their first task - a fashion show at the Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany's largest football stadium, where they had to do a catwalk down the field during half-time in front of over 70,000 football fans watching the Borussia Dortmund vs. VfB Stuttgart game. At the end of the second day of casting, ten of the girls are eliminated, and the 15 that would move on to the house were determined.
Episode 2: Das erste große Einzel-Fotoshooting steht bevor
The 15 finalists arrived in St. Moritz and went to their first photoshoot on a snow covered mountain for German Cosmopolitan. After this photo shoot, Sophie and Alina decided to leave the show to return to school. Then the contestants had their first challenge, won by Aneta Tober. Finally, they went to their first important photo shoot, posing in front of a gigantic fan with a car behind them. Previously eliminated contestants Tonia Michaely and Denise Dahinten replaced Alina and Sophia. Heidi Klum, watching the photo shoot, spoke highly of Dahinten's creative poses, saying she hasn't ever seen poses like them before. In the end, Janine Mackenroth was the first model eliminated, due to a lack of expression in her photos.
- Eliminated: Janine Mackenroth
Episode 3: Einzug ins neue Zuhause
In the third episode, the girls pose in Swarovski Crystals for the photo shoot. At judging, Enyerlina Sanchez and Antje are not as good as the other girls and they are eliminated.
- Eliminated: Enyerlina Sanchez and Antje
Episode 4: Der neue Style
The contestants got new haircuts in this episode. They were also forced to pass the "Falling Fairytales" photo shoot from America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6. Contestant Janina-Catharina Küpper could not convince the judges and was eliminated. Fiona Erdmann provoked Hana Nitsche by compromising her in front of judge member Peyman Amin: During a fake casting Erdmann was asked to play the casting agent requesting Nitsche to present a sock to the customer. She worked herself up over this matter so Nitsche felt offended. Later Erdmann apologized for the time being.
- Eliminated: Janina-Catharina Küpper
Episode 5: Es wird eisig…
During the fashion show of the designer Susanne Marx of the AMD (“Akademie Mode & Design”) fashion school in Düsseldorf Philips hall Alla Kosovan and Anja Platzer were not allowed to walk the runway. At not less than 2000 invited guests, it was a chance for three of the contestants to present themselves to the designers Johnny Talbot and Adrian Runhof and their prêt-à-porter fashion show in Paris, France. The designers decided to take Hana Nitsche, Fiona Erdmann and Milla von Krockow.
Their challenge this week was a photo shoot with a male model depicting the four seasons through mien and gestures authentically. This was useful for the contestants to learn the difference between Commercial Posing and Editorial Posing. The winners Tonia Michaely, Denise Dahinten, Mandy Graff and Barbara Meier were allowed to spend the evening with the male models, with which they had to work for the shooting. The other contestants had to clean the house.
This week's photo shoot took place in a cold storage house with the photographer Matt McCabe. The contestants had to deal with enormous low temperature as they were forced to pose with ice sculptures in mini skirts and mini dresses.
Before the elimination every contestant had to do a live-walk and demonstrate one's learning aptitude by presenting a fire brigade outfit in Editorial Posing and another product in Commercial Posing.
The judges were not thrilled of Alla Kosovan's performance this week, so she was the one to be eliminated.
- Model job winners: Fiona Erdmann, Hana Nitsche and Milla von Krockow
- Challenge winners: Tonia Michaely, Denise Dahinten, Mandy Graff and Barbara Meier
- Featured Photographers: Matt Mc Cabe, Oliver S.
- Special guests: Designer Johnny Talbot & Adrian Runhof, Designer Susanne Marx and Stylist Frank Wilde
- Judge guest: Matt McCabe
- Bottom two: Denise Dahinten and Alla Kosovan
- Eliminated: Alla Kosovan
Episode 6: Knutsch die Kröte
The contestants shot a television commercial for an online dating agency. They each were dressed as a fairy princess for the ad in which they found a frog, and gave him a kiss. Frustrated when he didn't turn into a prince, they angrily demanded he do so, insisting he wanted to. The commercial was not shot in one continuous take. At this point, so as to avoid cruelty, the real frog was swapped out for a fake frog. Then shooting resumed, as the model tossed the fake frog down in frustration at the end of the commercial. Denise Dahinten was clumsy during the shoot. She also wanted a lot of reassurance from the director, to the point of neediness and requesting a hug. Heidi was on the set and witnessed this behavior. Dahinten was eliminated at the end of this episode.
Also during episode 6, for winning a challenge, Anni Wendler was chosen to be in the music video for the song "Zwei Sommer" by German singer Kim Frank. She was encouraged to pick three contestants who knew how to play guitar or keyboards to co-star in the video. She asked the others if anyone could play those instruments, but no one said they did. Wendler selected Mandy Graff, Michaela Gräfin "Milla" von Krockow, and Aneta Tober. Wendler later complained the video left her with bruising from pretending to play guitar all day.
- Model job winner: Hana Nitsche
- Challenge winner: Anni Wendler
- Featured Producer: Andreas Kayales
- Special guests: Kim Frank, Ursula Michelis
- Judge guest: Andreas Kayales
- Bottom two: No bottom two this week, Aneta Tober came last
- Eliminated: Denise Dahinten
Episode 7: Heiße Action
This week's photo shoot was placed in an action setting. The contestants had to stay concentrated despite loud explosion noises in the background. Contestant Barbara Meier was asked to co-star with Heidi Klum in a McDonald's television commercial as a reward for winning an acting challenge. The casting director said she was not necessarily the best actor, but would be the best one for the commercial. The spot received a lot of airplay a few weeks later. The contestants' parents surprised their daughters by making a visit. Hana Nitsche's boyfriend made a bad joke by pretending not to come but then arriving later on. Nitsche was not amused unlike her boyfriend who laughed a lot and apparently enjoyed having teased her.
- Model job winner: Barbara Meier
- Challenge winners: Milla von Krockow, Aneta Tober, Anni Wendler, Fiona Erdmann, Anja Platzer, Barbara Meier
- Featured Photographer: Mario Schmolka
- Special guests: Designer Caroline Nippert (label Cava-Cava), Designer Johann Stockhammer (label Etienne Aigner AG), Designer Sascha Lutzi (label Mother of Punk)
- Judge guest: Mario Schmolka
- Bottom two: Anni Wendler and Milla von Krockow
- Eliminated: Tonia Michaely and Aneta Tober
Episode 8: Ein tierisch gutes Shooting
This week the seven contestants travelled to Bangkok to participate in a casting for the Thai fashion label Fly Now. Five of the seven contestants were allowed to walk the runway which was placed in a calf-high swimming pool. The designer chose Anja Platzer and Fiona Erdman not to walk along with the others. The next day the contestants travelled to Los Angeles for a photo shoot with an elephant and a barely dressed man. The judges eliminated half-Chinese contestant Milla von Krockow due to a lack of expression in her face.
- Eliminated: Milla von Krockow
Episode 9: Topmodel trifft Superstar
The contestants stayed in Los Angeles for another week. Their first challenge was to act professionally on the red carpet surrounded by celebrities and actors. Anja Platzer was chosen as this challenge's winner and was given the chance to jaunt on a yacht along with Mandy Graff while the other contestants had to go for broke at a fitness lesson. All of the contestants then participated in a casting with Christian Audigier, designer of the successfully rising fashion label Ed Hardy. Hana Nitsche, Mandy Graff and Barbara Meier were chosen to walk the runway at a well visited fashion show. This week's photo shoot demanded a great deal of the contestants as they had to pose like superheroes knotted with ropes between house walls of Los Angeles. Contestant Fiona Erdman later peached on Mandy Graff and Hana Nitsche as she stated they sometimes considered to leave the competition. Erdmann then obviously lost many viewers' sympathies regarding internet polls and surveys. The judges's problem child Anja Platzer finally had to leave the show as they could not find enough enhancements regarding her achievements all over the show.
- Model job winners: Barbara Meier, Hana Nitsche, Mandy Graff
- Challenge winner: Anja Platzer
- Featured Photographer: Antoine Verglas
- Special guest: Designer Christian Audigier
- Judge guest: Antoine Verglas
- Bottom two: Mandy Graff and Anja Platzer
- Eliminated: Anja Platzer
Episode 10: Bodypainting am Malibu Beach
For this week's photo shoot, the contestants had to go the full monty as their bodies were covered only by body color during a body painting session at the Malibu Beach. Runway coach Bruce Darnell forced the girls to find foot passengers in Hollywood's Rodeo Drive to argue them into a photo shoot for which they had to imitate film posters. Anni Wendler stuck out with her outstanding achievement and was allowed to fly with a helicopter and watch California's night life from above. Wendler and Hana Nitsche began to blackbite – Fiona Erdmann being the victim. When Erdmann tried to talk things out Nitsche evaded the issue. Due to the show's success, the producers decided to elongate it by an additional episode with no elimination.
- Eliminated: No one was eliminated
Episode 11: Das große Cosmopolitan-Shooting steht bevor
- Eliminated: Mandy Graff
Episode 12: Wiedersehen mit allen 15 Kandidatinnen
- Eliminated: Fiona Erdmann (left the competition last week, but this was shown in this episode)
Episode 13: Das Finale
Though officially described as “live ” the finale was recorded in the afternoon of May 24 and shown at 20.15 PM the same day. It began with Heidi Klum introducing the three finalists: Anni Wendler, Hana Nitsche, and Barbara Meier. Their first live challenge was a bikini-themed catwalk and another one with old-fashioned dresses. Shortly after that, last week's photos were shown to the audience. The contestants had to explain their ideas and implementation. Then Hana was eliminated without any explanation by the judges which displeased the audience and the viewers booed loudly. For the next challenge runway trainer Bruce Darnell was asked to do a “spontaneous” photo shoot with Wendler and Meier themed “Romeo and Juliet” and “Caught in the Act”. After that clips of all three finalists were accompanied with a live-played saxophone song. The saxophone preluded to an opera version of Ave Maria with all of this season's contestants walking the runway dressed in baroque and unique appearing robes. The studio was quiet for a few seconds before Monrose's "Hot Summer" started and the band members began to walk the runway. As the second verse began all contestants came on stage one by one and did another catwalk walk. Then the final announcement was made: Barbara is “Germany's Next Topmodel”. She got a car and the modelling contract with IMG Models.
- Eliminated: Hana Nitsche
- Runner-up: Anni Wendler
- Germany's Next Topmodel: Barbara Meier
Episode 14: Was keiner sah
This episode was announced as a collection of unaired additional footage from all twelve episodes but half of the episode turned out to be a summary of shown footage. The last one and a half hours showed the contestants at a Spin the Bottle play, a boxing training, a report of contestant Hana being sick and some other scenes.
Contestants
Ages and measurements stated are at time of contest.
| Contestants of Cycle 2 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contestant [2] | Place | Age | Country | Federal state | City | Size | Measurements |
| Barbara Meier | 1 | 20 | Germany | Bavaria | Regensburg | 5' 8" / 174 cm | 81-61-94 |
| Anne-Kathrin “Anni” Wendler | 2 | 21 | Germany | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Schwerin | 5' 9 1/2" / 177 cm | 85-59-92 |
| Hana Nitsche | 3 | 21 | Germany | Baden-Württemberg | Heidelberg | 5' 7 3/4" / 172 cm | 85-59-89 |
| Fiona Erdmann | 4 | 18 | Germany | Bremen | Bremen | 5' 8 1/2" / 174 cm | 81-63-91 |
| Mandy Graff | 5 | 18 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | Kehlen | 5' 10 1/2" / 179 cm | 89-63-91 |
| Anja Platzer | 6 | 19 | Austria | Styria | St. Stefan/Graz | 6' 0" / 183 cm | 84-62-88 |
| Michaela Saskia “Milla” Gräfin von Krockow | 7 | 20 | Germany | Lower Saxony | Göttingen | 5' 9" / 175 cm | 86-61-88 |
| Tonia Michaely | 8 | 19 | Germany | Berlin | Berlin | 5' 11 3/4" / 182 cm | 89-69-97 |
| Aneta Tober | 8 | 21 | Germany | North Rhine-Westphalia | Castrop-Rauxel | 5' 9" / 175 cm | 83-61-80 |
| Denise Dahinten | 10 | 19 | Germany | Hesse | Bruchköbel | 5' 7 3/4" / 172 cm | 86-65-91 |
| Alla Kosovan | 11 | 18 | Germany | Berlin | Berlin-Schöneberg | 5' 9 1/2" / 177 cm | 85-66-94 |
| Janina-Katharina Küpper | 12 | 21 | Germany | North Rhine-Westphalia | Aachen | 6' 0" / 183 cm | 87-62-92 |
| Antje | 13 | 22 | Germany | Brandenburg | Strausberg | 5' 11" / 180 cm | 89-69-88 |
| Enyerlina Sanchez | 13 | 25 | Germany | Berlin | Berlin | 6' 0" / 183 cm | 87-65-96 |
| Janine Mackenroth | 15 | 18 | Germany | Bavaria | Munich | 5' 8" / 173 cm | 87-62-92 |
Controversies
Many fans were able to find out the eliminated contestant from the next week's episode beforehand.
- Denise Dahinten's elimination was confirmed by studio guests of that day's episode of late night show TV total in which the eliminated contestants used to appear after their elimination.
- Host channel ProSieben booked a web domain for each contestant's name, e.g. www.fiona-erdmann.de – the only names that were not booked were Tonia Michaely, Aneta Tober and Michaela “Milla” Gräfin von Krockow so their elimination was indirectly confirmed.
- An Austrian newspaper published a report on Anja Platzer being home again, confirming her elimination the next week.
- Friends of Mandy's divulged her elimination in several internet forums.
- As the 11th episode ended with a cliffhanger leaving open if either Fiona Erdmann or Anni Wendler would be one of the final three, fans began to collect details and indices that would reveal the last finalist. Some television guides accidentally published photos of Wendler, Barbara Meier, and Hana Nitsche. Also paparazzi photos of the three were shot and leaked into the internet [3]. But the most airtight proof was a mumbled statement by judge members Heidi Klum and Peyman Amin who stated they thought “those three really deserve to get into the final show”. For one or two seconds the viewer was able to have a glimpse on three photos separated from two others. The two put aside were those of Erdmann and Mandy Graff.[4] [5]
Summaries
Call-out order
| Order as called out by host Heidi Klum | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Order | Ep 1 | Ep 2 | Ep 3 | Ep 4 | Ep 5 | Ep 6 | Ep 7 | Ep 8 | Ep 9 | Ep 10 | Ep 11 | Ep 12 | Ep 13 |
| 1) | Hana | Fiona | Hana | Fiona | Tonia | Barbara | Aneta | Anni | Anni | Barbara | Hana | Hana | Barbara |
| 2) | Milla | Alla | Mandy | Milla | Anni | Denise | Fiona | Fiona | Barbara | Hana | Barbara | Barbara | Anni |
| 3) | Alina | Enyerlina | Milla | Barbara | Anja | Milla | Mandy | Mandy | Fiona | Fiona | Anni | Anni | Hana |
| 4) | Fiona | Tonia | Anja | Hana | Barbara | Hana | Barbara | Anja | Hana | Anni | Fiona | Fiona | |
| 5) | Alla | Janina | Tonia | Tonia | Milla | Fiona | Tonia | Hana | Mandy | Mandy | Mandy | ||
| 6) | Janine | Mandy | Denise | Anja | Hana | Mandy | Hana | Barbara | Anja | ||||
| 7) | Janina | Barbara | Anni | Mandy | Aneta | Anja | Anja | Milla | |||||
| 8) | Mandy | Antje | Barbara | Denise | Mandy | Anni | Anni | ||||||
| 9) | Aneta | Aneta | Janina | Aneta | Fiona | Tonia | Milla | ||||||
| 10) | Anja | Hana | Aneta | Alla | Denise | Aneta | |||||||
| 11) | Enyerlina | Anni | Alla | Anni | Alla | ||||||||
| 12) | Barbara | Denise | Fiona | Janina | |||||||||
| 13) | Anni | Anja | Antje | ||||||||||
| 14) | Antje | Milla | Enyerlina | ||||||||||
| 15) | Sophie | Janine | |||||||||||
- The contestant won the week's challenge
- The contestant was eliminated
- The contestant won the competition
- The contestant won the week's professional model casting
- The contestant won the week's challenge and was eliminated in the same episode
- The contestant won the week's challenge and the professional model casting
- The contestant won the week's professional model casting and was eliminated the same episode
Makeovers
- Alla – Blonde Wisps
- Aneta – Brown Layered Crop
- Anja – Shortened
- Anni – Long Blonde Weave
- Barbara – Straightened
- Denise- Brown and Straight
- Fiona – Long and straight, highlights
- Hana – Full Reddish Brown Wave
- Janina – Bronzy Curled Hair
- Mandy – Blonde Extensions
- Milla – Bob with Bangs
- Tonia- Highlights
Photo Shoot Guide [6]
- Episode 2 Photo Shoot: “Windkanal” (Wind Tunnel)
- Episode 3 Photo Shoot: “Glatzen” (Bald Heads)
- Episode 4 Photo Shoot: “Fallende Märchenfiguren” (Falling Fairytale Characters)
- Episode 5 Photo Shoot: “Auf Eisblöcken” (On Ice Blocks)
- Episode 6 Photo Shoot: “Werbespot” (Advertising Spot)
- Episode 7 Photo Shoot: “Action und Explosion” (Action and Explosion)
- Episode 8 Photo Shoot: “Wildlife mit Tarzan” (Wildlife with Tarzan)
- Episode 9 Photo Shoot: “Superheroes”
- Episode 10 Photo Shoot: “Bodypainting” (Body Painting)
- Episode 11 Photo Shoot: “Wir hassen Peyman” (We Hate Peyman)
- Episode 12 Photo Shoot: Contestants' Choice
- Episode 13 Photo Shoot: “Romeo und Julia” (Romeo and Juliet) / “Auf frischer Tat ertappt” (Caught in the Act)
Television ratings
| Episode | from 3 years | 14- to 49-year-old | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viewers <br\>(in millions) | Share <br\>(in %) | Viewers <br\>(in millions) | Share <br\>(in %) | |
| 1 | 3,26 | 10,7 | 2,51 | 19,9 |
| 2 | 2,91 | 9,7 | 2,21 | 17,2 |
| 3 | 2,99 | 10,2 | 2,22 | 18,5 |
| 4 | 3,29 | 10,5 | 2,53 | 19,6 |
| 5 | 3,41 | 11,4 | 2,54 | 20,4 |
| 6 | 2,64 | 9,0 | 1,87 | 16,5 |
| 7 | 3,05 | 10,4 | 2,14 | 18,2 |
| 8 | 3,63 | 12,4 | 2,75 | 22,9 |
| 9 | 3,76 | 13,7 | 2,93 | 25,7 |
| 10 | 3,78 | 13,0 | 2,88 | 23,6 |
| 11 | 3,97 | 13,9 | 2,96 | 24,3 |
| 12 | 3,58 | 12,2 | 2,67 | 22,3 |
| 13 | 4,49 | 17,7 | 3,26 | 29,7 |
| 14 | 1,93 | 7,1 | 1,49 | 13,5 |
References
- ^ ""Alle Folgen im Überblick"". ProSieben. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
- ^ ""Alle Models auf einen Blick"". ProSieben. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- ^ ""Paparazzi photos of the show's finalists"". Tommy's Blog. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- ^ ""Screenshot of the judges's desk"". ProSieben. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- ^ "Das große Cosmopolitan-Shooting steht bevor". Germany's Next Topmodel. 2007-05-10. ProSieben.
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- ^ ""German television ratings"". Quotenmeter.de. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- ^ ""German television ratings"". DWDL.de. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
