GNTM Cycle 1 1st Episode : Meet the Girls!

Original Airdate : January 25, 2006

From over 11,000 applicants, 32 girls were selected to enter the competition. For their first challenge, the girls had to put together an outfit from the clothes they had packed for a meeting with the judges. After the challenge, twelve girls were eliminated, leaving twenty to compete for the twelve places in the finals.

• Eliminated: Alexandra B., Franziska, Isa, Julia-Theresa, Katrin, Martha, Missy, Monika, Myriel, Ramona, Sarah K. & Swetlana

For the next challenge, the 20 remaining models were taken by bus to the Zeche Walsum, a coal mine in Duisburg, where they had to walk down a runway for an audience of miners. After this, the twelve finalists were selected. Heidi then announced that they would be going to New York City.

• Eliminated: Alexandra F., Bettina, Britta, Dina, Irina, Karolina, Sarah L. & Sina

Meet the final girls

Andrea Lichtenberg 
18 yo - 5'10 - Bergisch Gladbach

Anne Muhlmeier 
17 yo - 5'9 - Stuttgartt

Celine Roscheck
22 yo - 5'11'5 - Vienna, Austria

Charlotte Offeney
18 yo - 6'1 - Hanover

Janina Ortmann 
20 yo - 5'8 - Corfu, Greece

Jennifer Wanderer
17 yo - 5'10 - Kulmbach

Lena Meier
19 yo - 5'11 - Nuremberg 

Lena Gercke 
17 yo - 5'10 - Cloppenburg

Luise Mikulla
16 yo - 5'7'5 - Postdam

Micaela Schafer 
22 yo - 5'9 - Berlin

Rahel Kruger
20 yo - 5'7 - Kiel