Just like in all other versions of the franchise, auditions take place and the judges review their talent and then later the home audience votes in an election to deem who wins.

Season one was presented by Marco Schreyl (also the host of Deutschland sucht den Superstar – the German version of Pop Idol).

The auditions took place in Cologne, Hamburg, Oldenburg, and Munich and around 5000 people applied for the three-part show.

Dieter Bohlen remained as a judge, but the two others were replaced by Bruce Darnell (an American model and choreographer who also judges Germany's Next Topmodel) and Sylvie Meis (a Dutch TV presenter and former wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart) and the TV presenter Daniel Hartwich joined Marco Schreyl as the new host.

The judge line-up was changed, as Bruce Darnell decided to leave the show to be replaced by professional dancer Motsi Mabuse.

The episode hit a season low with only 5.83 million viewers and lost against The Voice of Germany in the target group 14–49.

Daniel Hartwich hosted the show without Marco Schrey], and Dieter Bohlen was the only judge to remain on the panel.

and Bohlen on the local version of singing franchise Pop Idol (Deutschland sucht den Superstar).

Schoppmann, who originally had success following her second place, had eventually been dropped by her label and failed to make a comeback.

After successfully auditioning in front of the judges, she had to compete in a sing-off, in which she won a spot in the semifinals.

Model Lena Gercke and fashion designer Guido Maria Kretschmer joined Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell as judges and host Daniel Hartwich returned for this season.

TV presenter Inka Bause was replaced by model and singer Victoria Swarovski, and Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell returned as judges.

This gave an audience member the opportunity to state his or her opinion after each audition, but this person had no voting rights.

Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell returned as judges, with Daniel Hartwich as host.

On 18 June 2020, television personality Evelyn Burdecki and comedian Chris Tall were announced as joining Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell as the two new judges.

The places 4 to 11 have not been revealed, but here are the other contestants who made it to the finals, in order of appearance: RTL announced in March 2021 that Dieter Bohlen and Bruce Darnell would no longer be judges on the show.

Three months after that, RTL announced that hosts Daniel Hartwich and Victoria Swarovski would no longer be part of the show, as well.

Later, RTL confirmed that fashion designer Michael Michalsky, football player Lukas Podolski, Dutch TV presenter Chantal Janzen, and the magician duo Ehrlich Brothers would be the new judges.

Professional dancer Ekaterina Leonova and model Anna Ermakova would join them as the two new judges.

[8] The places 4 to 10 have not been revealed, but here are the other contestants who made it to the finals, in order of appearance: Annotations Barbara Grofe of RP Online wrote in an early review: "Talents are little to see, but an awful lot of people with ego problems".

[clarification needed] Next to that, it has been highly criticized in recent seasons that candidates with no real talent are presented to the audience after a pre-casting to humiliate these people and push the ratings.

Christian Richter writes about the show that the "performances are artificially drawn in the length" and the candidates "tell their personal tragic story with overly dramatic music", even repeating the crucial scenes again in slow motion.

[11] It was also published by the Bild as "super cheating" that RTL paid some of their talents money for their participation in the show.