This is the 22nd season of Wer wird Millionär?, the German version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Hosted by Günther Jauch. Top Prize was €1.000.000.
Starting from season 9, contestants are offered two game formats: classic with three lifelines, or risk with four lifelines (in this case the contest has €500 minimum amount only).
Episodes[]
- Episode 1+2 (31 August 2020)
Denis Marchado Ferreira (€32.000) Sonja Schick (€32.000) Oguz Basoglu (€8.000, continued)
- Episode 3+4 (7 September 2020)
Oguz Basoglu (€500 - lost on €16.000) Marco Möller (€64.000) Jasmin Niedrich (€64.000) Benjamin Witzel (€1.000, continued)
- Episode 5+6 (14 September 2020)
Benjamin Witzel (€16.000) Fabienne Liese (€16.000) Simone Quilltz (€32.000)
- Episode 7+8 (21 September 2020) - "Das grosse Danke Special"
Hans Kautz (€64.000) Marlis Samesch (€32.000) Florian Christiansen (€64.000)
- Episode 9+10 (28 September 2020)
Rouven Heylmann (€125.000) Maren Tinne (€500 - lost on €16.000) Peter Balthazaar (€4.000, continued)
- Episode 11+12 (5 October 2020)
Peter Balthazaar (€64.000) Maria Jordan (€32.000) Julius Cremer (€32.000)
- Episode 13+14 (12 October 2020) - Die Mannschaft-Special
Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich (€64.000) Niklas Süle and Lukas Klostermann (€125.000) Kevin Trapp and Oliver Bierhoff (€32.000)
- 41st Celebrity Special (19 November 2020)
Steffen Henssler (€64.000) Johannes B. Kerner (€125.000) Michael Stich (€32.000) Sabrina Mockenhaupt and Ralf Rangnick (€125.000)
- Episode 15+16 (28 December 2020)
- Episode 17+18 (4 January 2021)
- Episode 19+20 (11 January 2021) - Zocker-Special
Janos Pigerl (€1.000 - lost on €750.000) Niklas Bayer-Eynck (€1.000 - lost on €125.000, continued instead of bad question)
- Episode 21+22 (15 January 2021) - Zocker-Special
- Episode 23+24 (18 January 2021) - Zocker-Special
- Episode 25+26 (22 January 2021) - Zocker-Special
- Episode 27+28 (5 February 2021) - Second Chance Zocker-Special
Niklas Bayer-Eynck (€1.000 - lost on €32.000)
- Episode 29+30 (15 February 2021)
- Episode 31+32 (22 February 2021)
- Episode 33+34 (1 March 2021)
- Episode 35+36 (22 March 2021)
- Episode 37+38 (29 March 2021)
- Episode 39+40 (5 April 2021) - Zocker-Special
- Episode 41+42 (12 April 2021)
- Episode 43+44 (19 April 2021)
- Episode 45+46 (26 April 2021)
- Episode 47+48 (3 May 2021)
- Episode 49+50 (10 May 2021)
- Episode 51+52 (17 May 2021)
- Celebrity Special (24 May 2021) - Zocker-Special
Barbara Schöneberger (€125.000) Thomas Gottschalk (€125.000) Oliver Pocher (€125.000) Anke Engelke (€1.000 - lost on (€250.000)
- Episode 53+54 (31 May 2021)
- 1,500th episode (3 June 2021) - Special
Franziska Negelein (€55.555) Evelyn Burdecki (€15.555) Janos Pigerl (€134.333) Ursula Stachuletz (€15.555)
- Episode 55+56 (12 July 2021) - Sommerspecial
- Episode 57+58 (19 July 2021) - Sommerspecial
- Episode 59+60 (26 July 2021)
- Episode 61+62 (2 August 2021)
- Episode 63+64 (9 August 2021)
Trivia[]
- For the first time, a contestant is allowed to run a second time because he gave an answer that was rated as wrong and yet somehow correct. He answered the €125.000 question wrong and won €1.000. But RTL gives the WWM contestant Niklas Bayer-Eynck a new chance. On February 5, 2021 episode, he continued his run.
- Anke Engelke become celebrity contestant in risk format to lost the biggest money (€124.000) and walk away with €1.000.
| Preceded by Series 21 |
German Series Series 22 |
Succeeded by Series 23 |