Author Sybille Berg goes to Brussels for German satirical party
Published: Monday, Jun 10th 2024, 12:00
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The German-Swiss author and columnist Sibylle Berg has been elected to the European Parliament for the German satirical party "Die Partei". The party received 1.9 percent of the vote in Germany in Sunday's election, giving it two MEPs.
Berg was in second place, while first place went to satirist and author Martin Sonneborn, who is the party chairman and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014.
On Monday morning, Berg wrote on Portal X: "thank you very much! together we will now put a kind end to surveillance fascism! any help is welcome". In Germany, there has no longer been an electoral hurdle in the EU elections since 2014 that would have to be crossed by a party in order to enter the EU Parliament.
Berg, who was born in Weimar, East Germany, in 1962 and lives in Zurich, says she has published a total of 32 plays, 17 novels and various columns. The Berliner Ensemble has staged several of her plays, most recently two works that deal with the excesses of social injustice and the influence of digital technologies.
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