Simone Barrientos

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Simone Barrientos
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Simone Barrientos in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
In office
20172021
Personal details
Born (1963-10-05) 5 October 1963 (age 60)
Eisleben, East Germany
(now Germany)
Political party The Left

Simone Barrientos (born 5 October 1963) is a German politician. Born in Eisleben, Saxony-Anhalt, she represents The Left. Simone Barrientos has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2017 until 2021. [1]

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Life

Barrientos grew up in Neustrelitz as the child of a single mother who was a dancer with the folklore ensemble of the GDR and the Friedrich-Wolf-Theater in Neustrelitz. She was also looked after in state nurseries and in a Catholic children's home. After attending school, she first learned the profession of an industrial electrician at the Deutsche Reichsbahn. At the age of 17 she gave birth to a son whose father had left for the "West". She completed a further apprenticeship as a commercial advertiser. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in the GDR, she worked in various sectors until 2008: as a draftswoman, interpreter, in a casting office and in film production. From 2008 to 2017, she managed the publishing house Kulturmaschinen. She became member of the bundestag after the 2017 German federal election, [2] where she was a member of the Committee for Culture and Media. [3] She was also the spokesperson for cultural policy for her parliamentary group. [4]

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References

  1. Bundestag, Fraktion DIE LINKE im. "Profil". Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  2. "Simone Barrientos | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  3. "German Bundestag – Cultural and Media Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  4. Bundestag, Fraktion DIE LINKE im. "SprecherInnen". Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 17 March 2020.