Big Brother Germany (Season 7)
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Season Seven of Big Brother Germany
lasted for 148 days from 5 February 2007 to 7 July 2007 and was shown on RTL II.
During the season the nomination rules were changed several times (see notes in the nominations table) for entertainment purposes and to protect controversial housemates. The most controversial of them was Eddy, who was disliked by a large number of viewers, but also had a strong fanbase. Within the house he had friends (e.g. Basti and Oliver) and "enemies" (e.g. Leon and Janine), with alliances changing over the season (he was friends with Kathrin and Michael at first, but fell out with them later). After being evicted by his fellow housemates Eddy returned as a guest in the final week and provoked some of the most controversial moments of the season (with his targets being Kathrin and Michael). These moments probably helped Michael to win the show, as he was considered a victim of Eddy's provocations. Additionally, Michael's strongest rival for the win, Sonja, had become Basti's girlfriend during the season and Basti was close with Eddy (Basti re-entered as a guest in the final week together with Eddy).
Despite not being a ratings hit, season 7 at least lived up to RTL II's low expectations and an 8th Season was greenlit right at the end of the show.
Intruders:
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! Walked
| none || none || none || style="background:#FFCCFF; text-align:center"|Kathrin|| none || style="background:#FFCCFF; text-align:center"|Sheila|| none || none || none || none || none ||style="background:#FFFFFF;" colspan=2 | none
|-
! Up for eviction
| Christian
Kathrin
Leon ||Anna
Sheila || Ines
Jeannine
Sheila || All
housemates || Ines
Oliver || Doreen
Knubbel
Sinan || Knubbel
Michael
Oliver || Eddy
Doreen
Knubbel || Basti
Janine
Leon || Eddy
Janine
Kathrin || Janine
Knubbel || style="background:#FFFFFF;" colspan=2 | All
housemates
|-
!rowspan=4 | Evicted
| style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" colspan"1" rowspan=4| Christian
-65.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Anna
-72.8% || style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Jeannine
-64.8% || style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Natasha
4 out of
12 votes to evict||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Ines
-46.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Sinan
-67.1% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Oliver
-70.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Doreen
-56.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Basti
-66.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Eddy
4 out of 7
votes to evict ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Janine
-61.8% || style="background:#FF8072" | Knubbel
16%
(Out of 5)
| style="background:#FF8072" |Leon
17.1%
(Out of 4)
|-
| style="background:#FBF373" |Kathrin
20.1%
(Out of 3)
| style="background:#D1E8EF" |Sonja
42.4%
(Out of 2)
|-
|colspan=2 style="background:#73FB76" |Michael
57.6%
(Out of 2)
|}
As the Golden Housemate of the Week, Oliver had the option to nominate a third person that would automatically up for eviction. He chose to take this offer and nominated Leon.As new Housemate, Sinan had to nominate one person that would be automatically up for eviction. He chose Sheila.Anna, Basti and Eddy were banned from nominating as punishment for discussing nominations.As a new Housemate, Natasha was immune
from getting nominated.
Sheila was automatically nominated after losing a football competition.
Jeannine was automatically nominated for having after achieving the last place in a karaoke competition.
Eddy receive a nominations point from the viewers.For constant rule-braking by the household Big Brother decided to organize a snap eviction with the person who received the most votes immediately evicted.
As new housemates, Doreen and Knubbel were immune from getting evicted.Nominations were voluntary, so only two Housemates nominated this week. However, as the Golden Housemate of the Week, Basti had to nominate a second person that would face the public vote. He chose Oliver.As a new Housemate, Janine was immune from getting nominated.
Nominations were done in Eurovision Style, where every Housemate had to give 9 nomination points to their favourite Housemate, 8 for their second favourite all the way down to 1 point for their least favourite. The bottom three was nominated for eviction.As the Golden Housemate of the Week, Eddy was immune from getting nominated. Next to this, all the females were immune.
Nominations were done face-to-face. As there was a tie for the third nomination place Eddy, as the Golden Housemate, had to choose the third nominee from either Basti or Oliver, who both received one nomination point. He chose Oliver.As he came last in the marathon match, Knubbel was automatically nominated.
This weeks nominations were made by the housemates mothers (and Knubbels sister).
After the Housemates refused to complete their weekly task Big Brother decided that an extra Housemate should be up for evcition three days after the voting started. The Housemates each had to nominate someone for eviction. Eddy and Knubbel could not be nominated as they are already up for eviction. Doreen received the most nominations with 3 and was up for eviction with Eddy and Knubbel.The audience voted for Eddy as being immune from getting nominated.This weeks nominations were made by the public. The housemate then had to decide whom of the top 3 vote getters would be evicted.
Big Brother Germany
Big Brother Germany is a reality show on RTL II . It was the first adapted version based on the original Dutch Big Brother series by Endemol in 1999.-Big Brother Germany summary:...
lasted for 148 days from 5 February 2007 to 7 July 2007 and was shown on RTL II.
Season summary
After a disappointing sixth season, which was supposed to run forever but was cut short and a year break the producers decided to return with a "Back to the roots"-format for season seven with 12 housemates living together in one house and the only twist being that the housemates had to earn the prize. For every match a certain amount of money was put in the jackpot with the maximum being 250,000€ which only the winner would receive.During the season the nomination rules were changed several times (see notes in the nominations table) for entertainment purposes and to protect controversial housemates. The most controversial of them was Eddy, who was disliked by a large number of viewers, but also had a strong fanbase. Within the house he had friends (e.g. Basti and Oliver) and "enemies" (e.g. Leon and Janine), with alliances changing over the season (he was friends with Kathrin and Michael at first, but fell out with them later). After being evicted by his fellow housemates Eddy returned as a guest in the final week and provoked some of the most controversial moments of the season (with his targets being Kathrin and Michael). These moments probably helped Michael to win the show, as he was considered a victim of Eddy's provocations. Additionally, Michael's strongest rival for the win, Sonja, had become Basti's girlfriend during the season and Basti was close with Eddy (Basti re-entered as a guest in the final week together with Eddy).
Despite not being a ratings hit, season 7 at least lived up to RTL II's low expectations and an 8th Season was greenlit right at the end of the show.
Housemates
Original Housemates:- Anna Masaracchia, 31 from MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
- Christian Dorn, 26 from MarlMarlMarl or marlstone is a calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and aragonite. Marl was originally an old term loosely applied to a variety of materials, most of which occur as loose, earthy deposits consisting chiefly of an intimate mixture of clay...
- Erdal "Eddy" Ayebe, 28 from KrefeldKrefeldKrefeld , also known as Crefeld until 1929, is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, its centre lying just a few kilometres to the west of the River Rhine; the borough of Uerdingen is situated directly on the Rhine...
- Ines Gebhard, 31 from Grabsdorf
- Jeannine Emmel-Ehmsen, 24 from HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
- Kathrin Schlosser, 32 from HiltenfingenHiltenfingenHiltenfingen is a municipality in the district of Augsburg in Bavaria in Germany.Hiltenfigen has the world's highest murder rate per capita. The involution of a great variety of ethnicities serves to exacerbate the historic civil unrest of the region....
- Leon Schreiber, 24 from KraillingKraillingKrailling is a municipality in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany....
- Michael Carstensen, 34 from ViölViölViöl is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approx. 12 km northeast of Husum, and 30 km southwest of Flensburg.Viöl is the seat of the Amt of Viöl....
- Oliver Hofmann, 30 from SchneverdingenSchneverdingenSchneverdingen is a town in the northern part of the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 15 km north of Soltau, and 50 km south of Hamburg....
- Sebastian "Basti" Wrzosek, 24 from WuppertalWuppertalWuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land...
- Sheila Schmidt, 19 from HerneHerne, GermanyHerne is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen.- History :Like most other cities in the region Herne was a tiny village until the 19th century...
- Sonja Ailler, 20 from Griesstaett
Intruders:
- Sinan Karaaslan, 29 from DuisburgDuisburg- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...
- Natalie "Natasha" Root, 25 from DeckenpfronnDeckenpfronnDeckenpfronn is a municipality in the district of Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....
- Doreen Heineke, 24 from JenaJenaJena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...
- Andreas "Knubbel" Büttgenbach, 45 from BonnBonnBonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
- Janine Schmelz, 20 from KirchhainKirchhainKirchhain is a town in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany.-Geography:Kirchhain is located in the heart of the state of Hesse in Marburg-Biedenkopf County...
Nominations Table
| | Round 1 | | Round 2 | | Round 3 | | Round 4 | | Round 5 | | Round 6 | | Round 7 | | Round 8 | | Round 9 | | | | | | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | Sonja | Anna | Ines | Ines | Ines | 56pts (5th) |
Oliver | Eddy Sonja |
Janine | Eddy | Janine | No Nominations |
Winner | |
| Sonja | Jeannine | Jeannine | Ines | Oliver | No Nominations |
80pts (1st) |
Michael | Knubbel Doreen |
Janine | Janine | Janine | No Nominations |
Runner-Up | |
| Kathrin | Eddy | Anna | Ines | Walked (Day 56) |
Knubbel | Michael Janine |
Knubbel | Eddy | Knubbel | No Nominations |
Third Place | |||
| Leon | Christian | Anna | Ines | Natasha | Ines | 51pts (7th) |
Basti | Eddy Basti |
Basti | Eddy | Knubbel | No Nominations |
||
| Knubbel | Not in house |
Eddy | No Nominations |
35pts (10th) |
Michael | Eddy Janine |
Kathrin | Janine | Kathrin | No Nominations |
Fifth Place | |||
| Janine | Not in house |
Exempt | Knubbel | Eddy Michael |
Basti | Eddy | Sonja | Evicted (Day 141) |
||||||
| Eddy | Kathrin | Banned | Ines | Ines | No Nominations |
67pts (3rd) |
Michael Oliver |
Michael Doreen |
Leon | Janine | Evicted (Day 127) |
|||
| Basti | Anna | Banned | Ines | Natasha | Oliver | 72pts (2nd) |
Michael | Leon Doreen |
Leon | Evicted (Day 120) |
||||
| Doreen | Not in house |
Natasha | No Nominations |
43pts (9th) |
Knubbel | Eddy Basti |
Evicted (Day 106) |
|||||||
| Oliver | Christian Leon |
Basti | Leon | Leon | No Nominations |
53pts (6th) |
Michael | Evicted (Day 92) |
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| Sinan | Not in house |
Sheila | Leon | Natasha | No Nominations |
46pts (8th) |
Evicted (Day 78) |
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| Sheila | Christian | Kathrin | Ines | Ines | No Nominations |
57pts (4th) |
Walked (Day 71) |
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| Ines | Kathrin | Michael | Leon | Michael | No Nominations |
Evicted (Day 64) |
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| Natasha | Not in house |
Leon | Sinan | Evicted (Day 57) |
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| Jeannine | Sheila | Anna | Oliver | Evicted (Day 50) |
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| Anna | Kathrin | Banned | Evicted (Day 36) |
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| Christian | Kathrin | Evicted (Day 22) |
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| Nomination Notes | ||||||||||||||
|-
! Walked
| none || none || none || style="background:#FFCCFF; text-align:center"|Kathrin|| none || style="background:#FFCCFF; text-align:center"|Sheila|| none || none || none || none || none ||style="background:#FFFFFF;" colspan=2 | none
|-
! Up for eviction
| Christian
Kathrin
Leon ||Anna
Sheila || Ines
Jeannine
Sheila || All
housemates || Ines
Oliver || Doreen
Knubbel
Sinan || Knubbel
Michael
Oliver || Eddy
Doreen
Knubbel || Basti
Janine
Leon || Eddy
Janine
Kathrin || Janine
Knubbel || style="background:#FFFFFF;" colspan=2 | All
housemates
|-
!rowspan=4 | Evicted
| style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" colspan"1" rowspan=4| Christian
-65.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Anna
-72.8% || style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Jeannine
-64.8% || style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Natasha
4 out of
12 votes to evict||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Ines
-46.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Sinan
-67.1% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Oliver
-70.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Doreen
-56.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Basti
-66.9% ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Eddy
4 out of 7
votes to evict ||style="background:#fa8072; text-align:center" rowspan=4| Janine
-61.8% || style="background:#FF8072" | Knubbel
16%
(Out of 5)
| style="background:#FF8072" |Leon
17.1%
(Out of 4)
|-
| style="background:#FBF373" |Kathrin
20.1%
(Out of 3)
| style="background:#D1E8EF" |Sonja
42.4%
(Out of 2)
|-
|colspan=2 style="background:#73FB76" |Michael
57.6%
(Out of 2)
|}
As the Golden Housemate of the Week, Oliver had the option to nominate a third person that would automatically up for eviction. He chose to take this offer and nominated Leon.As new Housemate, Sinan had to nominate one person that would be automatically up for eviction. He chose Sheila.Anna, Basti and Eddy were banned from nominating as punishment for discussing nominations.As a new Housemate, Natasha was immune
Immunity (reality television)
Immunity in reality television is a concept that is widely used in weekly elimination-type reality television shows by which a contestant participating in such a show may not be "kicked off" or eliminated from competition in a particular time period...
from getting nominated.
Sheila was automatically nominated after losing a football competition.
Jeannine was automatically nominated for having after achieving the last place in a karaoke competition.
Eddy receive a nominations point from the viewers.For constant rule-braking by the household Big Brother decided to organize a snap eviction with the person who received the most votes immediately evicted.
As new housemates, Doreen and Knubbel were immune from getting evicted.Nominations were voluntary, so only two Housemates nominated this week. However, as the Golden Housemate of the Week, Basti had to nominate a second person that would face the public vote. He chose Oliver.As a new Housemate, Janine was immune from getting nominated.
Nominations were done in Eurovision Style, where every Housemate had to give 9 nomination points to their favourite Housemate, 8 for their second favourite all the way down to 1 point for their least favourite. The bottom three was nominated for eviction.As the Golden Housemate of the Week, Eddy was immune from getting nominated. Next to this, all the females were immune.
Nominations were done face-to-face. As there was a tie for the third nomination place Eddy, as the Golden Housemate, had to choose the third nominee from either Basti or Oliver, who both received one nomination point. He chose Oliver.As he came last in the marathon match, Knubbel was automatically nominated.
This weeks nominations were made by the housemates mothers (and Knubbels sister).
After the Housemates refused to complete their weekly task Big Brother decided that an extra Housemate should be up for evcition three days after the voting started. The Housemates each had to nominate someone for eviction. Eddy and Knubbel could not be nominated as they are already up for eviction. Doreen received the most nominations with 3 and was up for eviction with Eddy and Knubbel.The audience voted for Eddy as being immune from getting nominated.This weeks nominations were made by the public. The housemate then had to decide whom of the top 3 vote getters would be evicted.