Nico Semsrott
Nico Semsrott | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
| Assuming office 2 July 2019[1][2] | |
| Succeeding | . |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 March 1986 Hamburg, Germany |
| Political party | Die PARTEI |
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]
Career
Entertainment
In school, he founded the satirical school newspaper Sophie's Underworld (Template:Lang-de) 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" (Template:Lang-de), 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.[7][4]
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 recived 2.4%. Unlike other elections in germany, there is no 5%- threshold concerning the European Parliament elections. In the preelection Semsrott criticized less keeping attention to younger generations in an 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). [11]
Awards
- 2009: Winner NDR-Comedy Contest
- 2010: Karl-Marx-Poesie-Preis
- 2011: Stuttgarter Besen, audience award
- 2011: Kleines Passauer Scharfrichterbeil (3. place)
- 2011: Winner NDR-Comedy Contest[12]
- 2012: Die Freiburger Leiter[13]
- 2014: Bayerischer Kabarettpreis, Senkrechtstarter
- 2017: Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis, category cabaret
External links
- Official Website
- Videos by and about Nico Semsrott on the AV-Portal of the Technischen Informationsbibliothek
References
- ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|work=(help) - ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Nico Semsrott". facebook.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|website=(help)[non-primary source needed] - ^ "No Fun Facts – Heute Show". zdf.de (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Berlin Votes" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "advertisment in german public tv (ARD)". Youtube/Nico Semsrott. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.[dead link]
- ^ "Sonneborn bei der Europawahl : Mit Göbbels und Speer als Kandidaten". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ ""the PARTY" is more popular then the common partys (SPD and FDP)". RTL. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
- ^ "Nico gewinnt Finale | N-JOY XTRA – Entertainment – Comedy – Comedy Contest". web.archive.org. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Kulturbörsenpreis für fünf A-Cappella-Sängerinnen" [Cultural Expo Prize for Five A-Capella Singers]. Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2019.