Big Brother Germany 13

Big Brother Germany 13, known specifically as Big Brother 20, is the current thirteenth season of Big Brother Deutschland.

Background

The show returned after an 5 year hiatus and will return in Spring 2020, twenty years after the first season aired.^[1]

Twists

• Housemate Rankings: The viewers will be rating each housemate via the Sat.1 app ranking each housemate out of 5 stars. These rankings will have a impact on the game determining the outcome of who will make decisions and ultimately the winner.
• Two Houses: The Big Brother compound consists of two houses this year. A log cabin and a glass house. The log cabin housemates will be provided with basic rations, supplies, and most importantly chickens. The glass house is a modern living space with monitors luxuries and more. The glass house housemates will be able to view their current ranking as well as be able to view comments posted by viewers in the app giving them vital information on how they are viewed by the public.
• Room of Truth: Each week a housemate will be chosen by the viewers via social media polls to enter the room of truth. Here the selected housemate will have to face comments from the audience as well as other surprises.
• Phase Two: On day 15 Big Brother closed the Blockhouse moving all housemates in to the Glasshouse until further notice.

Housemates

Winner    Cedric	Runner-Up    Gina	Finalist    Pat	Finalist    Rebecca	Finalist    Philipp	Finalist    Vanessa
Evicted    Tim	Evicted    Michelle	Walked    Serkan	Evicted    Denny	Evicted    Romana	Evicted    Jade
Walked    Menowin	Evicted    René	Evicted    Cathleen	Walked    Mac	Evicted    Maria	Evicted    Mareike

Nominations History

	Week 2		Week 4	Week 5	Week 7	Week 8	Week 10	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14
	Day 8	Day 15								Final
Cedric	Mareike	No Nominations	Tim	Gina	Rebecca	Romana	Denny	2-Michelle	No Nominations	Winner
Gina	Mac	No Nominations	Cedric	René	Romana	Romana	Denny	Cedric	No Nominations	Runner-Up
Pat	Cathleen	No Nominations	Mac	René	Jade	Romana	Serkan Denny	3-Michelle	No Nominations	Third Place
Rebecca	Cathleen	No Nominations	Cedric	René	Cedric	Cedric	Cedric Denny	Michelle	Exempt	Fourth Place
Philipp	Cathleen	No Nominations	Denny	René	Denny	Romana	Cedric Denny	Tim	No Nominations	Fifth Place
Vanessa	Mareike	No Nominations	René	René	Jade	Romana	Cedric Serkan	Cedric	No Nominations	Sixth Place
Tim	Cedric	No Nominations	Denny	René	Jade	Cedric	Philipp	4-Cedric	No Nominations
Michelle	Mac	No Nominations	Denny	René	Jade	Cedric	Denny	Cedric
Serkan	Not in House			René	Jade	Romana	Pat
Denny	Michelle	No Nominations	Gina	Gina	Rebecca	Romana	Cedric Serkan
Romana	Not in House			Vanessa	Gina	Gina
Jade	Not in House			René	Michelle
Menowin	Not in House			Vanessa	Rebecca
René	Gina	No Nominations	Mac	Gina
Cathleen	Philipp	No Nominations	Vanessa
Mac	Michelle	No Nominations	René
Maria	Mareike	No Nominations
Mareike	Cedric

House History

Week
1							*			*
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11								*

• On Day 2, Denny and Tim switched houses, with Denny moving from the Block House to the Glass House and Tim moving from the Glass House to the Block House.
• On Day 72, Vanessa switched from the Glass House to the Block House after Serkan walked from the game.

Budget History

Week
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Match Arena

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 12
Cedric	Loss	Win	Loss	Win	Loss	Loss	Ineligible	Loss	Ineligible
Gina	Ineligible	Ineligible	Loss	Ineligible	Ineligible	Loss	Ineligible	Loss	Loss
Pat	Loss	Loss	Loss	Ineligible	Ineligible	Win	Win	Win	Loss
Rebecca	Loss	Loss	Loss	Win	Loss	Win	Ineligible	Win	Ineligible
Philipp	Ineligible	Ineligible	Loss	Win	Loss	Loss	Ineligible	Win	Win
Vanessa	Loss	Loss	Loss	Ineligible	Ineligible	Win	Ineligible	Win	Loss
Tim	Ineligible	Loss	Loss	Ineligible	Ineligible	Win	Ineligible	Loss	Loss
Michelle	Ineligible	Ineligible	Loss	Win	Loss	Win	Ineligible	Loss	Loss
Serkan	Not in House			Ineligible	Ineligible	Win	Ineligible	Loss
Denny	Win	Ineligible	Loss	Win	Loss	Loss	Ineligible	Win
Romana	Not in House			Win	Loss	Loss	Ineligible
Jade	Not in House			Ineligible	Ineligible
Menowin	Not in House			Win	Loss
René	Loss	Loss	Loss	Win	Win
Cathleen	Ineligible	Ineligible	Loss	Win
Mac	Ineligible	Ineligible
Maria	Ineligible	Ineligible
Mareike	Loss	Loss

Ratings Table

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13
Cedric	2.6	None	3.7	4th	3.7	None	3.6	None	3.3	3.5	3.3	2.5	3.2
Gina	2.6	2.7	3.0	8th	3.3	3.2	3.3	None	3.8	3.7	3.9	3.9	3.8
Pat	3.3	None	3.8	3rd	3.6	3.8	3.8	3.7	3.6	3.3	None	3.4	3.3
Rebecca	3.5	None	4.0	1st	3.1	None	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.1	None	3.0	2.7
Philipp	3.3	3.1	3.0	11th	2.8	None	3.0	None	3.3	3.1	2.8	3.1	2.9
Vanessa	3.2	None	3.5	6th	3.3	3.2	3.2	3.2	2.9	2.2	None	2.9	2.8
Tim	2.4	None	3.5	2nd	3.5	3.5	3.3	3.1	3.1	3.0	None	3.3	2.9
Michelle	3.5	3.0	2.3	12th	2.9	None	3.0	3.1	2.8	2.2	2.4	2.6	2.5
Serkan	Not in House					3.1	3.3	3.6	3.6	3.4	3.0
Denny	3.1	3.7	3.5	5th	3.6	None	3.7	None	3.5	3.2	None
Romana	Not in House					None	1.7	None	1.7
Jade	Not in House					2.0	1.8
Menowin	Not in House					None	2.9
René	2.8	None	3.7	7th	2.9	None
Cathleen	3.5	2.8	2.6	10th	3.2
Mac	2.7	2.7	2.9	9th
Maria	3.0	2.7
Mareike	2.7	None

• Scores shown are the most recent scores revealed on Mondays during the live shows.
• Starting with the second week the housemate with the highest rating would will protection from being nominated for eviction.

Game History

#	Nominations																																																																Result
																																																																	Housemate(s)	Finish
1 & 2	Cathleen																																										Mareike																																										Mareike	1st Evicted Day 15
	Cathleen												Cedric												Denny												Gina												Mac												Maria												Michelle												Maria	2nd Evicted Day 15
	Pat														Philipp														Rebecca														René														Tim														Vanessa
3 & 4	Cathleen																					Denny																					Michelle																					Philipp																					Mac	Walked Day 24
																																																																																					Cathleen	3rd Evicted Day 29
5																																																																	Jade	Entered Day 29
																																																																	Menowin	Entered Day 29
																																																																	Romana	Entered Day 29
																																																																	Serkan	Entered Day 29
	Gina																												René																												Vanessa																												René	4th Evicted Day 36
6 & 7	Jade																																										Rebecca																																										Menowin	Walked Day 44
																																																																																					Jade	5th Evicted Day 50
8	Cedric																																										Romana																																										Romana	6th Evicted Day 57
9 & 10	Cedric																																										Denny																																										Denny	7th Evicted Day 71
11																																																																	Serkan	Walked Day 72
12	Cedric																																										Michelle																																										Michelle	8th Evicted Day 85
13	Cedric														Gina														Pat														Philipp														Tim														Vanessa														Tim	9th Evicted Day 92
14																																																																	Vanessa	Sixth Place
																																																																	Philipp	Fifth Place
																																																																	Rebecca	Fourth Place
																																																																	Pat	Third Place
																																																																	Gina	Runner-Up
																																																																	Cedric	Winner

Week 1 & Week 2

Round 1

Nominee    Cathleen

Evicted    Mareike

Day 1
On day 1, during the live launch, the housemates moved in and choose which house they wanted to live in for the first week. Later in the episode, Denny won the first match, he won the power to send someone, including himself, From the Blockhouse to the Glasshouse. He chose himself. Cathleen earned the right to send someone from the Glasshouse to the Blockhouse after it was revealed she was the highest-rated housemate in the Glasshouse. After a short discussion, Tim volunteered to move.
Day 5
The room of truth was revealed to the housemates. Via a social media vote, the public voted in Maria to face the truth. Big Brother revealed that to date 67% of comments about her on the Big Brother app are negative. In addition this she was shown a selection of tweets that criticized her behavior in the house.
Day 8
Live Show:

• Weekly Task It was revealed the housemates completed the first part of their shopping task successfully, which was to build a firewood box. The second part of the shopping task was played live where three housemates: Rene, Cedric, and Vanessa had 30 minutes to chop wood to fill the firebox. The housemates failed to chop all the wood in 30 minutes, and only earned 50% of the shopping budget, 150€ for the week.
• Match Arena/House Moves Cedric won the match and the power to choose one Blockhouse housemate to move into the Glasshouse. Cedric chose Mareike to move into the Glasshouse. It was revealed that Denny had the highest ranking, and had the power to send one housemate to the Blockhouse. He chose himself to move.
• Nominations As Denny was the highest-rated housemate he earned protection from nomination for the week. Housemates nominated live with 3 nominations each Cathleen and Mareike were both nominated for eviction.

Day 9
Weekly Task: Blockhouse housemates received their weekly task. Housemates must create their own soap with the materials provided. Big Brother has set a number of soaps they need to make which will be revealed at the end of the week.
Day 10
Room of Truth: Michelle was chosen by the viewers to enter the room of truth. Big Brother showed her tweets criticizing other housemates giving her information on how they act when she isn’t around.
Day 12
Punishment: Due to constant rule breaks including: not listening to Big Brother and not wearing microphones. Phillip and Rebecca have to stay awake for 24 hours straight.
Day 14
Weekly Task: Housemates earned only half of their budget after failing to follow the recipes provided to make the cosmetic products.
Day 15
Live Show

• Eviction One:
  Marieke recieved the least amount of votes to save and was the first housemate evicted.

Round 2

Nominee    Cathleen	Nominee    Cedric	Nominee    Denny	Nominee    Gina	Nominee    Mac
Nominee    Michelle	Nominee    Pat	Nominee    Philipp	Nominee    Rebecca
Nominee    René	Nominee    Tim	Nominee    Vanessa	Evicted    Maria

• Eviction Two:
  Maria recieved the least amount of votes to save and was the second housemate evicted.
• Twist: Big Brother initiated phase two of his experiement closing the Blockhouse until further notice. All housemates will now reside in the Glasshouse.

Week 3 & Week 4

Nominee    Denny

Nominee    Michelle

Nominee    Philipp

Evicted    Cathleen

Walked    Mac

Week 5

Entered    Jade	Entered    Menowin	Entered    Romana	Entered    Serkan
Public Nominee 2 Votes    Vanessa	Public Nominee 3 Votes    Gina	Public Nominee Evicted 9 Votes    René

Week 6 & Week 7

Nominee    Rebecca

Evicted    Jade

Walked    Menowin

Week 8

Nominee    Cedric

Evicted    Romana

Week 9 & Week 10

Nominee 54.23% to save    Cedric

Evicted 45.77% to save    Denny

Week 11

Walked    Serkan

Week 12

Nominee 58.56% to save    Cedric

Evicted 41.44% to save    Michelle

Week 13

Nominee    Gina

Nominee    Pat

Nominee    Philipp

Nominee    Vanessa

Nominee 44.04% to evict (out of 2)    Cedric

Evicted 55.96% to evict (out of 2)    Tim

Week 14

Winner    Cedric

Runner-Up    Gina

Third Place    Pat

Fourth Place    Rebecca

Fifth Place    Philipp

Sixth Place    Vanessa

Viewership History

Big Brother Germany 13 Official Ratings
#		Date	Viewership
Week	Episode		Viewers (in millions)	Share
1	1	Monday, February 10, 2020	1.60	11.0%
	2	Tuesday, February 11, 2020	1.02	7.7%
	3	Wednesday, February 12, 2020	0.92	7.2%
	4	Thursday, February 13, 2020	0.94	7.3%
	5	Friday, February 14, 2020	0.90	7.7%
2	6	Monday, February 17, 2020	0.85	6.1%
	7	Monday, February 17, 2020	1.21	7.3%
	8	Tuesday, February 18, 2020	0.95	6.4%
	9	Wednesday, February 19, 2020	0.97	7.5%
	10	Thursday, February 20, 2020	0.86	6.1%
	11	Friday, February 21, 2020	0.74	5.7%
3	12	Monday, February 24, 2020	0.78	5.4%
	13	Monday, February 24, 2020	1.12	6.2%
	14	Tuesday, February 25, 2020	0.98	6.9%
	15	Wednesday, February 26, 2020	0.87	6.6%
	16	Thursday, February 27, 2020	0.87	6.7%
	17	Friday, February 28, 2020	0.80	6.1%
4	18	Monday, March 2, 2020	0.77	5.2%
	19	Monday, March 2, 2020	0.96	5.2%
	20	Tuesday, March 3, 2020	0.92	6.7%
	21	Wednesday, March 4, 2020	0.83	4.8%
	22	Thursday, March 5, 2020	0.78	5.0%
	23	Friday, March 6, 2020	0.79	5.6%
5	24	Monday, March 9, 2020	0.82	6.2%
	25	Monday, March 9, 2020	1.17	6.9%
	26	Tuesday, March 10, 2020	0.87	6.8%
	27	Wednesday, March 11, 2020	0.80	5.7%
	28	Thursday, March 12, 2020	0.73	4.9%
	29	Friday, March 13, 2020	0.81	5.0%
6	30	Monday, March 16, 2020	0.82	5.0%
	31	Monday, March 16, 2020	1.20	6.5%
	32	Tuesday, March 17, 2020	1.09	6.8%
	33	Wednesday, March 18, 2020	0.83	3.9%
	34	Thursday, March 19, 2020	0.89	5.0%
	35	Friday, March 20, 2020	0.99	5.4%
7	36	Monday, March 23, 2020	0.92	4.8%
	37	Monday, March 23, 2020	1.22	6.2%
	38	Tuesday, March 24, 2020	0.96	6.4%
	39	Wednesday, March 25, 2020	0.90	5.3%
	40	Thursday, March 26, 2020	0.86	5.1%
	41	Friday, March 27, 2020	0.79	4.2%
8	42	Monday, March 30, 2020	0.84	5.6%
	43	Monday, March 30, 2020	1.10	5.2%
	44	Tuesday, March 31, 2020	0.77	4.7%
	45	Wednesday, April 1, 2020	0.92	5.8%
	46	Thursday, April 2, 2020	0.82	5.5%
	47	Friday, April 3, 2020	0.83	5.0%
9	48	Monday, April 6, 2020	0.83	5.4%
	49	Monday, April 6, 2020	1.24	6.1%
	50	Tuesday, April 7, 2020	0.91	5.7%
	51	Wednesday, April 8, 2020	0.99	7.0%
	52	Thursday, April 9, 2020	0.94	6.7%
	53	Friday, April 10, 2020	1.12	8.9%
10	54	Monday, April 13, 2020	0.99	6.2%
	55	Monday, April 13, 2020	0.17	7.3%
	56	Tuesday, April 14, 2020	0.85	4.5%
	57	Wednesday, April 15, 2020	0.88	5.4%
	58	Thursday, April 16, 2020	0.81	5.6%
	59	Friday, April 17, 2020	0.87	5.8%
11	60	Monday, April 20, 2020	0.72	4.0%
	61	Monday, April 20, 2020	0.76	5.5%
	62	Tuesday, April 21, 2020	0.85	6.2%
	63	Wednesday, April 22, 2020	0.98	7.2%
	64	Thursday, April 23, 2020	0.83	5.6%
	65	Friday, April 24, 2020	0.84	6.0%
12	66	Monday, April 27, 2020	0.81	5.7%
	67	Monday, April 27, 2020	0.84	5.2%
	68	Tuesday, April 28, 2020	0.82	4.4%
	69	Wednesday, April 29, 2020	0.87	5.5%
	70	Thursday, April 30, 2020	0.77	4.9%
	71	Friday, May 1, 2020	0.73	4.8%
12	72	Monday, May 4, 2020	0.86	5.5%
	73	Monday, May 4, 2020	0.85	5.9%
	74	Tuesday, May 5, 2020	0.80	5.1%
	75	Wednesday, May 6, 2020	0.80	6.4%
	76	Thursday, May 7, 2020	0.82	5.4%
	77	Friday, May 8, 2020	0.82	5.8%
13	78	Monday, May 11, 2020	0.80	4.8%
	79	Monday, May 11, 2020	0.94	6.5%
	80	Tuesday, May 12, 2020	0.70	4.6%
	81	Wednesday, May 13, 2020	0.89	5.9%
	82	Thursday, May 14, 2020	0.77	5.3%
	83	Friday, May 15, 2020	0.73	5.5%
14	84	Monday, May 18, 2020	0.90	7.5%
	85	Monday, May 18, 2020	0.86	5.7%

References

Trivia

• Big Brother Germany 13 had the same premiere date and finish date as Big Brother Sverige 8.

Germany Seasons
Civilian	1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13
Celebrity	1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8