Martin Sonneborn – Riot & Satire

Martin Sonnebornborn in Göttingen in 1965, is a satirist, journalist, politician and co-editor of “Titanic”. He studied journalism, German and political science in Münster, Vienna and Berlin. He wrote his master’s thesis on the absolute ineffectiveness of modern satire. In August 2004, he founded the PARTEI to rebuild the wall. He was head of the satirical SPAM section at Spiegel Online and an outside reporter for the “Heute Show” (ZDF). If the FAZ, Tagesthemen and Rudi Völler are to be believed, he brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany. The Berliner Zeitung wrote about “Heimatkunde”: “Funnier than imagined” and Der Spiegel said: “An eerily beautiful snapshot of the state of unity”. He was awarded the Grimme Prize in 2014 for “Sonneborn rettet die Welt” (ZDFneo). Thinks it’s funny to be sitting in the EU Parliament today, despite his conclusive scientific argumentation at the time.