Germany presents dancing middle fingers at Eurovision
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Stand: 22.05.2021
– – –That’s not a middle finger, is it?
Quelle: Getty Images/Dean Mouhtaropoulos
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Peace sign or middle finger? The background dancer of the 26-year-old Jendrik attracted a lot of attention at the Eurovision Song Contest. And the singer’s appearance also polarized.
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Mith his song “I don’t feel hate”, Jendrik Sigwart represented Germany in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) on Saturday evening. The 26-year-old from Hamburg sang the happy song in Rotterdam on the stage of the Ahoy Hall from 10.10 p.m.
With his glitter ukulele and hopping in a pink jacket with short sleeves, the musical actor completed the performance flawlessly, even if the performance with befriended dancers and a woman in a peace symbol hand costume was not open to everyone.
One thing in particular caught the eye of the audience on social media: the middle finger quickly turned into a middle finger on the stage – for long stretches of the performance in a bad mood – the middle finger. Gravity snapped one of the two fingers of the peace sign attached to the costume. Germany showed the world, as Twitter users noticed, the middle finger for four minutes.
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Meanwhile, the five fingers on two legs reminded the elderly of the cheeky “Rolf”, the bright yellow hand with sunglasses that the Post used to advertise the new five-digit postcodes in 1993 (“Five is Trümpf”). The baring finger figure got on the nerves of many at the time.
The life-size peace sign on the German appearance is a friend of Jendrik. In the video, she actually played a middle finger, “but that’s not allowed at the ESC,” the singer had explained to the “Tagesspiegel”. The German delegation therefore rescheduled. Apparently too provisional.
– –This is what the peace sign should look like
Source: AFP / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD
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Germany has almost always done very badly in the Eurovision Song Contest in recent years. Before the ESC was canceled due to Corona in 2020, the duo S! Sters came in penultimate place in 2019, as did the singer Levina in 2017. In 2016 and 2015 with Jamie-Lee and Ann Sophie it was even the last place. Michael Schulte only achieved fourth place in 2018 with “You let me walk alone”.
The feedback for Jendrik on Twitter was mostly negative. The entertainer Jan Böhmermann commented on the performance with a quote from the song: “I don’t feel hate, I just feel sorry”. “I don’t feel hatred, I just feel sorry.”
