“The Social gathering” gained at the very least 1.9 p.c of the votes in Germany. Along with primary Martin Sonneborn, award-winning Sibylle Berg additionally receives a mandate.
“Thanks for the 56 million who voted for us,” wrote Sibylle Berg on X. Or: “Thanks very a lot! Collectively we’ll finish surveillance fascism for good! Any assistance is welcome.” It looks as if satire? It’s. Nevertheless, there’s a actual connection: Sibylle Berg, a profitable writer of performs, novels and radio dramas, has been elected to the European Parliament for the German satirical get together “The Social gathering”.
The editors of the German satirical journal “Titanic” based “The Social gathering” in 2004. “The Social gathering” has been represented within the European Parliament since 2014 by its chairman Martin Sonneborn. The writer, satirist and politician may even be shifting there once more. Yesterday, Sunday, “The Social gathering” acquired 1.9 p.c of the vote in Germany, which gave it two representatives.
In an interview, the “FAZ” describes the satirical get together “not simple to categorize: tendency to joke, but additionally confrontational, typically aggressive with a transparent anti-capitalist orientation.” And Berg noticed a little bit of an outline of herself this fashion too: “I’ve reached a stage of political and social ignorance that I need to be lively outdoors the outlined framework of literature,” she stated final yr. And referred to as “clever satirical events with a public strategy to criticism of the system and an anarchic strategy as a substitute for people who find themselves disillusioned with get together politics.”
Berg began second. There is no such thing as a proportion hurdle in EU elections – 0.6 per cent of the vote is sufficient for a mandate. The writer is a prolific author, born in Weimar in 1962 and has lived in Switzerland for a few years. Her first novel, “Just a few individuals are in search of happiness and laughing their heads off,” was revealed in 1997. A few of her most vital books: “The Journey” (2007), “The Man Sleeps” (2009), “There Was “Thank You for Life” (2012), The Day My Spouse Discovered a Husband (2015), GRM (2019) and RCE (2022).
The Berliner Ensemble just lately carried out two works that take care of the surplus of social injustice and the affect of digital applied sciences. Her performs had been additionally proven within the Burgtheater and the Rabenhof in Vienna. Berg acquired, amongst others, the Swiss “Grand Prix Literature”, the Bertolt Brecht Prize and the Nestroy Theater Prize. Berg additionally wrote a column for “Spiegel On-line” for twelve years. She can be very lively on Twitter. (ed.)