Anke Domscheit-Berg

Anke Domscheit-Berg grew up the daughter of an art historian and a doctor in Müncheberg in the then-GDR.[3] She has a sister and two brothers.[4] Domscheit-Berg attended a polytechnic secondary school, before transferring to an extended secondary school in Strausberg to sit the Abitur examination.[5] In 1987 she began studying textile art in Schneeberg, Saxony. Following German reunification, she worked for three years to finance her further studies. In 1993 she began studying business economics at the International Business School in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, specialising in political economy and international economic relationships as well as the Spanish language. In 1996 she gained a Bachelor of Arts - International Business Administration degree and in the same year completed a Master of Business Administration degree at Northumbria University.[6]

After graduating she worked as a management consultant at Accenture and McKinsey. From 2008 to 2011, Domscheit-Berg was active as a lobbyist for Microsoft in Germany. Following that, she was self-employed as a writer and businesswoman.[7] In 2016 she founded ViaEuropa together with Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Jonas Birgersson. The company aims to promote the decentralised development of fibre-optic networks in Germany. In 2017, she stepped down from the position of managing director.

In 2010 she was an honorary supervisory board member of Teach First Deutschland. She was a freelance policy advisor at the World Future Council on the topic of violence against women and girls and an honorary member of the think-tank of the German NGO Welthungerhilfe.[8][9] In 2015 she was a member of the jury for the Deutscher Reporterpreis.[10]

From June-October 2017 she worked part-time as a research assistant to Petra Sitte, a member of the German Bundestag.[11]

In 2000, Domscheit-Berg gave birth to a son. After separating from the father, she was a single mother for a while.[12] In 2010 she married Daniel Berg. She lives in Fürstenberg/Havel.

Anke Domscheit-Berg was a member of Alliance 90/The Greens in the Mitte borough of Berlin.[13] In May 2012 she joined the Pirate Party Germany.[14] From August 2013 to July 2014, Domscheit-Berg was chair of the Pirate Party in Brandenburg.[15]

In the 2013 German federal election, Domscheit-Berg was second on the Pirates' party list in Brandenburg, and also stood as a direct candidate in the single-member constituency of Oberhavel – Havelland II.[16] In the 2014 European Parliament election, she was third on the Pirate Party's national party list.[17] She was however unsuccessful in both elections.

In September 2014, Domscheit-Berg left the Pirate Party.[18] In the 2017 German federal election, she stood as a candidate for The Left in the constituency of Brandenburg an der Havel – Potsdam-Mittelmark I – Havelland III – Teltow-Fläming I, without being a party member, as well as taking third place on the party list of The Left in Brandenburg.[19] She was defeated in the constituency by CDU candidate Dietlind Tiemann, but was elected as a member of the Bundestag via the party list. She is the chair of the Left group in the Bundestag's 'Digital Agenda' committee.[20]

• Mauern einreißen! Weil ich glaube, dass wir die Welt verändern können. (Break down walls! Because I believe we can change the world.) Heyne Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-20042-5
• Ein bisschen gleich ist nicht genug! Warum wir von Geschlechtergerechtigkeit noch weit entfernt sind. Ein Weckruf. (Some equality is not enough! Why we are still a long way from gender equality. A wake-up call.) Heyne Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-453-60311-0

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