Gysi vs. Sonneborn - Kanzlerduell der Herzen

In the organizer's words:

A very left-wing thing. A two-person play. A ping-pong with flashes of inspiration. Each one a sparring partner for the other. The adept opposition politician and the equally adept clown argue together: in action against political routine. Gregor Gysi, who wants to make politics richer with humor; Martin Sonneborn, who gives politics a bad name with his wit - two test in conversation how far you have to go to be out of the ordinary.

"The PARTEI and the Left in power: Martin, there would be something going on in Germany!" "Punk! It would be punk. Pure punk!"

Gregor Gysi, born in 1948, lawyer and politician. Represented Robert Havemann, Rudolf Bahro and other regime critics as a lawyer. 1989-1992 party chairman of the PDS. 1990-2002 and 2005-2015 parliamentary group leader of the PDS and the Left Party. He is still a Member of Parliament. President of the Party of the European Left from December 2016 - December 2019. In 2020, he was appointed foreign policy spokesperson for the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Martin Sonneborn, born in Göttingen in 1965, studied journalism, German and political science in Münster, Vienna and Berlin; master's thesis on the absolute ineffectiveness of modern satire. Co-editor of Titanic. Thinks it's funny to have been a member of the EU Parliament for seven years now, despite his conclusive scientific argumentation. His most recent book is "99 Ideas for the Revival of Political Utopia: The Communist Manifesto".