Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Junior ESC - Wer fährt nach Paris? (English: Junior ESC - Who goes to Paris?) was the competition that selected Germany's entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021. On 1 June 2021, KiKa opened the application window where children aged between 9 and 14 were able to apply for the competition until 25 June 2021 and over 100 applications were received.[4][5] Five candidates were selected by an expert panel to go through to the online vote and were announced on 23 July 2021.[6]

On 23 July 2021, performance clips of each of the five candidates performing a cover song of their choice were released online via KiKa's official website and users had until 31 July 2021 to vote for their favourite candidate. On 3 August 2021, KiKa announced the top three candidates selected to proceed to the national final.[7]

The televised final took place on 10 September 2021 at 19:30 CEST in the Central Club in Erfurt, Germany, hosted by Jessica Schöne and Ben Blümel. Each of the three finalists performed two candidate Junior Eurovision songs selected by them from three already produced songs, provided by composers signed to record companies, entitled "Gut so" (English: Good this way), "Hausboot" (English: Houseboat), and "Imagine Us".[8] After the first round, one finalist was chosen by public voting and advanced to the second round. The winning song was then selected in the second round from the two songs. The jury panel included Hannah from the broadcaster KiKa, and two music experts consisting of artists Selina Mour and Gabriel Kelly. They provided feedback in regards to the songs during the show.[7]

Pauline Steinmüller,[9] commonly known as Pauline, is a German singer who will represent Germany in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021.[10]

"Imagine Us" is a song by German singer Pauline, written by Alexander Henke, Torben Brüggemann and Ricardo Muñoz. The song is in German and English.[11]

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting.

The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 17 December 2021 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on Sunday 19 December at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able vote for a maximum of three songs.[13] They will also be able to vote for their own country's song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 20% of the votes, it received 20% of the available points.