Nico Semsrott

Nico Semsrott (born 11 March 1986) is a German Kabarett artist, politician (Die PARTEI) and slam poet who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.[3]

Nico Semsrott
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Assuming office
2 July 2019[1][2]
Succeeding.
Personal details
Born (1986-03-11) 11 March 1986
Hamburg, Germany
NationalityGerman
Political partyDie PARTEI

Career

Entertainment

In school, he founded the satirical school newspaper Sophie's Underworld (German: Sophies Unterwelt) together with his younger brother, Arne Semsrott at the Hamburg Sophie-Barat-Schule. Its sale was banned on the school grounds by the school's headmistress.[4]

Since 2008, Semsrott has portrayed a depressive persona on poetry slams and cabarets. His first solo show, titled "Joy is just a lack of information" (German: Freude ist nur ein Mangel an Informationen), premiered on 14 June 2012 in Hamburg. He performed updated versions from Autumn 2014 until Christmas 2018. In 2019, Semsrott announced a pause in favor of his political work.[5] Semsrott was part of the ZDF heute-show team from 2017 until 2019, hosting the segment No Fun Facts.[6]

Politics

Semsrott ran in the 2017 German federal election as leading candidate for Berlin for Die PARTEI, a satirical German political party, receiving 2.1% of the votes.[4][7]

In the 2019 European elections, Semsrott was elected to the European Parliament as the second party-list candidate (behind Martin Sonneborn) from Die PARTEI. His Party received 2.4%. Unlike other elections in Germany, there is no 5% electoral threshold concerning the European Parliament elections. In the preelection Semsrott criticized the lack of attention given to younger generations in a TV advertisement.[8][9][10] A survey made after the election showed that votes for Die PARTEI came especially from first-time voters (about 9% of this group), who cast more votes for it than for the SPD or the FDP, two establishment parties.[11]

Awards

References
  1. "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. Oltermann, Philip; Walker, Shaun; Giuffrida, Angela (27 May 2019). "An NBA star, a TV chef and a comedian: meet some of the new MEPs". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  4. Hanselmann, Matthias. "Nico und Arne Semsrott – Mal lustig, mal ernst – aber immer politisch" [Nico and Arne Semsrott: Sometimes funny, sometimes serious – but always political]. Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  5. "Nico Semsrott". facebook.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  6. "No Fun Facts – Heute Show". zdf.de (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  7. "Berlin Votes" (PDF).
  8. "LETZTWÄHLER - EINE GEFAHR FÜR EUROPA! (advertisement in German Public TV (ARD))". Youtube/Nico Semsrott. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  9. "Sonneborn bei der Europawahl : Mit Göbbels und Speer als Kandidaten" [Sonneborn at the European Election: With Göbbels and Speer as Candidates]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  10. Pichler, Nikolaus (28 May 2019). "Junge Wähler pushen Die Partei ins EU-Parlament – das sagt Nico Semsrott zum Wahlerfolg" [Young Voters Push Die PARTEI into the European Parliament – Nice Semsrott speaks about the electoral victory]. Stern. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  11. "Europawahl: Satirepartei bei Erstwählern beliebter als SPD und FDP" [European Election: Satirical party more popular with first-time voters than the SPD and FDP]. RTL. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  12. "Nico gewinnt Finale | N-JOY XTRA – Entertainment – Comedy – Comedy Contest". 15 October 2013. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  13. "Kulturbörsenpreis für fünf A-Cappella-Sängerinnen" [Cultural Expo Prize for Five A-Capella Singers]. Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2019.
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