Verena: We chose "We will rave" as we both love this song and we are big fans of the typical 90s songs.

Florian: We really wanted to sing a current song that was still fresh with the fans.

Verena: I remember I received a WhatsApp message from a Eurovision friend saying "congratulations". That moment I realized that we must have been selected and I was so happy about it. EC Germany had a preselection with strong competitors, so being selected as the representative of the EC Germany is a big honour. Thanks again to everyone who voted for us.

Florian: I had just gone for a walk with a friend and then had to excuse myself for ten minutes to read the details and answer the first congratulations. We then spontaneously toasted with a glass of sparkling wine.

Verena: Of course it will be very exciting to perform in Hamburg and to meet the other contestants. I have been to Hamburg once before - in March 2015 with awful weather. So dry weather or even sunshine would be nice... and of course having fun on stage ;-)

Florian: I've been in Hamburg several times a year for 20 years. My best friend lives there with her family, as do a few other friends. The city has become like a second home to me.

Verena: I like to spend my freetime at the gym, travel or doing long walks in the nature.

Florian: I like going to concerts and travelling a lot. For example, I wrote the text for our song in a tree house in Costa Rica when it was raining. I go to yoga or swimming to relax.

Verena: My first memory about the Eurovision Song Contest is the Yugoslavian entry 1987. My sister watched the contest and I was thrilled by the performance of the band Novi Fosili (please don't ask me why). In 1989 I watched the whole contest for the first time live in front of the TV. Since then I have been an enthusiastic fan with my personal highlight being accreditated at the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf 2011.

Florian: My first memory was of the 1997 ESC, which I watched by chance. I was already eleven years old at the time. As a child, the contest didn't play a role in my life, I only watched VIVA. But then the fever took hold of me more and more every year. I have also been on site eight times since 2015, most recently in Malmö.

Verena: As a part of Call Me Survivor I have been on stage twice before (2016 & 2017). We also had a performance at the EC Germany Club convention in November last year. Beside this I performed at an event called "EuRUBvision" at the Ruhr University Bochum in front of an audience of 200 people.

Florian: I've already sung several times in the ESC context, including at Fanvision. Most recently in Stuttgart in 2021. I'm also always up for a karaoke evening.

Verena: I work for a tourism company in the quality department (see also "personal interests")

Florian: I work in marketing for a health insurance company.

We asked all our members: Would you like to sing for the ECG in Hamburg? Five acts then came forward and had to submit a live music video to our members' vote. Call Me Survivor received the clear majority of votes.

As a host club, Call Me Survivor can be sure of the loud support of many of our members in Hamburg. Our members will also celebrate the singers from the other clubs, I have no doubt about that.

I wish Call Me Survivor that they can enjoy the weekend to the fullest and make many new friends with talented singers from all over Europe. I am sure that our entry will make the visitors rave and that Verena and Florian will remember the three minutes on stage in Hamburg forever.

We are something like the cradle of the Eurovision Weekend. Even though the event now takes place across Europe, the event somehow always comes back to us. ;) As the largest of the two German clubs in terms of membership, we maybe exude less nostalgia for the ESC years long past, but we might be a little more modern and no less familiar. Our annual club meeting in November with some national and international star guests and funny parodies of ESC songs in Cologne should be part of every ESC fan's calendar.

At some point I got tired of listening to many ESC songs. With "Together" by Ryan O'Shaughnessy, the Irish entry from 2018, it was love at first note - and the performance in Lisbon thrilled me even more. To this day I just can't get enough of this song.

I want to be touched emotionally in some way by the FANvision participant and captured by his or her performance. He or she has to create a key moment for me to get me on his or her side. It just has to click. This can be through an outstanding vocal performance or through great entertainment value.