Vanessa Neigert

The sixth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar was aired on German channel RTL from January to May 2009.

The season's winner, Daniel Schuhmacher, was awarded a contract with Sony BMG.

The judges in this season were Dieter Bohlen, Nina Eichinger, and Volker Neumüller.

It was hosted by Marco Schreyl.

The viewers chose the contestant's fates as they were able to call for their favorite contestant.

As with season 5, the "Top 10" was created by the Top 5 contestants with the most telephone and SMS voting and the other five were selected by the jury.

(Ages stated at time of contest)

Annemarie Eilfeld demanded a redo after she was eliminated in the Top 3 show.

RTL admitted that a speaker in the "reminder" trailers following the show had told viewers to vote 03 for Eilfeld and 02 for Daniel Schuhmacher.

She called this problem a "scandal".

The mistake was not considered big enough for RTL to bother with.

After the initial show, Eilfeld had 19.3% of the vote and ended up with 19.8% with the second place contestant receiving a much higher total.

Angry DSDS fans complained and demanded either a repeat of the Top 3 show or a three-way final between Eilfeld, Schuhmacher and Sarah Kreuz.

Eilfeld's father was outraged over the error and reportedly considering taking legal action against RTL.

Advancing to Top 10 (Public votes): Vanessa N, Daniel, Sarah, Dominik, Holger

Advancing to Top 10 (Jury selection): Marc, Annemarie, Cornelia, Vanessa C, Benny

Although Florian and Tobias were eliminated, they both ranked within the top 10 in the phone voting with Florian placing 9th and Tobias placing 7th, ahead of Marc, Benny, Vanessa C., and Cornelia.

Bottom 4: Marc Jentzen, Benny Kieckhäben, Michelle Bowers, Annemarie Eilfeld

Jury Elimination Forecast: Benny Kieckhäben

Eliminated: Michelle Bowers

Bottom 4: Marc Jentzen, Cornelia Patzlsperger, Benny Kieckhäben, Annemarie Eilfeld

Jury Elimination Forecast: Benny Kieckhäben

Eliminated: Cornelia Patzlsperger

Bottom 4: Benny Kieckhäben, Marc Jentzen, Vanessa Neigert, Annemarie Eilfeld

Jury Elimination Forecast: Annemarie Eilfeld

Eliminated: Marc Jentzen

Bottom 4: Benny Kieckhäben, Holger Göpfert, Vanessa Neigert, Annemarie Eilfeld

Jury Elimination Forecast: Dominik Büchele (Nina), Annemarie Eilfeld (Volker & Dieter)

Eliminated: Holger Göpfert

Bottom 4: Annemarie Eilfeld, Benny Kieckhäben, Daniel Schuhmacher, Vanessa Neigert

Jury Elimination Forecast: Benny Kieckhäben (Volker), Benny Kieckhäben or Vanessa Neigert (Nina), Didn't say (Dieter)

Eliminated: Vanessa Neigert

Bottom 3: Annemarie Eilfeld, Benny Kieckhäben, Sarah Kreuz

Jury Elimination Forecast: Annemarie Eilfeld (Nina), Dominik Büchele (Volker), Benny Kieckhäben (Dieter)

Eliminated: Benny Kieckhäben

Bottom 3: Annemarie Eilfeld, Dominik Büchele, Sarah Kreuz

Jury Elimination Forecast: Dominik Büchele (Nina & Volker), Sarah Kreuz (Dieter)

Eliminated: Dominik Büchele

Bottom 2: Annemarie Eilfeld, Sarah Kreuz

Jury Elimination Forecast: Didn't say