Wir sind Helden was a German pop rock band that was established in 2000 in Hamburg and based in Berlin. The band was composed of lead singer and guitarist Judith Holofernes,drummer Pola Roy,bassist Mark Tavassol and keyboardist/guitarist Jean-Michel Tourette.
Judith Holfelder-Roy,known by her stage name Judith Holofernes,is a German singer,guitarist,songwriter and author.
Sahra Wagenknecht is a German politician,economist,author,and publicist. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Bundestag,where until 2023 she represented The Left. From 2015 to 2019,she served as that party's parliamentary co-chair. With a small team of allies,she left the party on 23 October 2023 to found her own party in 2024,Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht,to contest elections onwards.
Klaus Ernst is a German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party,later The Left and switched to BSW in October 2023.
Ireen Sheer is a German-English singer. She had her first major hit in 1970 with Hey Pleasure Man. She had a top five hit on the German singles chart with "Goodbye Mama" in 1973. She went on to finish fourth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 representing Luxembourg,sixth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 representing Germany,and thirteenth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 representing Luxembourg again.
The Left,commonly referred to as the Left Party,is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice –The Electoral Alternative. Through the PDS,the party is the direct descendant of the Marxist–Leninist ruling party of former East Germany,the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Since October 2024,The Left's co-chairpersons have been Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken. The party holds 28 seats out of 736 in the Bundestag,the federal legislature of Germany,having won 4.9% of votes cast in the 2021 German federal election. Its parliamentary group is the second-smallest of seven in the Bundestag,and is headed by parliamentary co-leaders Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann.
The Landtag of Thuringia is the parliament of the German federal state of Thuringia. It convenes in Erfurt and currently consists of 88 members from five parties. According to the free state's constitution,the primary functions of the Landtag are to pass laws,elect the Minister-President and control the government of Thuringia.
Friedrich Christian Delius,also known by his pen name F.C. Delius,was a German novelist. He wrote books about historic events,such as the 1954 FIFA World Cup,and RAF terrorism. Four of his novels were translated into English,including The Pears of Ribbeck and Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman. His awards include the Georg Büchner Prize of 2011.
Jan Paul van Aken is a German biologist and a politician. He has been co-leader of The Left since October 2024. He was member of German Bundestag from 2009 to 2017.
Wolfgang Herrndorf was a German author,painter,and illustrator.
Jakob Blasel is a German climate activist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens.
Gabriele Gottwald is a German politician,and currently (2019) a member of the Berlin state parliament (Abgeordnetenhaus). Before reunification she served between 1983 and 1985 as a member of the West German Bundestag,at that time representing the Green Party. The 1983 election was the first at which Green Party members were elected to the Bundestag. On her first day at the Bundestag she arrived on her bicycle and caused the janitor consternation by insisting on bringing it through the security gate because she was concerned that if she left it outside it might be stolen.
Anke Domscheit-Berg is a German politician and activist. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017,when she was elected on the party list of The Left,without being a party member. She joined the party in 2021 following her nomination to the top female position on the party election list in the state of Brandenburg. Previously,she was a member of the Pirate Party Germany and the Greens. She is married to Daniel Domscheit-Berg. In 2010 she received the Berliner Frauenpreis.
Saskia Christina Esken is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as co-leader of the party since being elected in December 2019 and re-elected in December 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013 and was an IT specialist in the early 1990s.
Cansel Kiziltepe is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister (Senator) for Labour,Social Affairs,Equality,Integration,Diversity and Anti-Discrimination in the government of Governing Mayor Kai Wegner since 2023.
Dietmar Heinrich Nietan is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1998 to 2002 and since 2005. In addition to his parliamentary work,he has been serving as the Coordinator of German-Polish Intersocietal and Cross-Border Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.
Sineb El Masrar is a Moroccan-German author,journalist,and Islamic feminist.
The 2021 Berlin referendum,formally referred to as Deutsche Wohnen &Co. enteignen or DW enteignen,was a referendum held and passed in Berlin in 2021. Voters were asked if they approved of the expropriation of the property of private real-estate companies with 3,000 or more units in the city,through public purchases by the Berlin state government. This would affect 243,000 rental apartments out of 1.5 million total apartments in Berlin. The largest such real-estate company is Deutsche Wohnen,for which the initiative is named,followed by Vonovia. In total,the referendum would impact 12 large real-estate companies.
Sarah-Lee Heinrich is a German non-party politician after leaving the German Green Party in September 2024. She was a federal speaker for the Grüne Jugend from October 2021 to October 2023.
Bild was a German free-to-air private news TV channel that represented the television arm of the Bild newspaper. It belonged to the WeltN24 broadcasting group,the TV subsidiary of Springer SE,and began broadcasting on 22 August 2021. The program was distributed via German cable networks,Satellit Astra 19.2 E,IPTV and OTT.The station was financed through advertising and the main program was the news format "BILD LIVE".
