Terry Reintke

Terry Reintke, 2015

Theresa "Terry" Reintke (born 9 May 1987) is a German Member of the European Parliament (MEP), elected 2014. She is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens and part of the Greens-EFA group in the European Parliament; from 2011 to 2013 she was the spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens.

Reintke was born and raised in Gelsenkirchen.[1][2] She studied political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Free University of Berlin, where her thesis was on "Local NGOs and sexualised violence in the Balkan conflicts",[3] was a member of the executive board of German Green Youth from 2008 to 2009,[1] and from 2011 to 2013 was the spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens.[1][4] She has also worked as a researcher at the Bundestag for representative Ulrich Schneider.[1][5]

Elected to the European Parliament in the May 2014 election, she reported on her first week as a representative in a widely discussed YouTube video with fellow Green representatives Jan Philipp Albrecht and Ska Keller,[6] which led to criticism of her ability to work with opponents.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Biographie: Terry Reintke", Hart aber fair, Das Erste, 22 October 2012 (German).
  2. ↑ "Interview mit Terry Reintke: 'Eine Trennung von Patriotismus und Nationalismus ist sehr schwierig'", Grüne Jugend, 29 June 2012 (German)
  3. ↑ "Verzeichnis der Absolventinnen und Absolventen und ihrer Diplomarbeitsthemen: Abschluss Wintersemester 2011/2012", OSI Club, retrieved 10 August 2014 (Microsoft Word) (German)
  4. ↑ "Executive Committee 2011", Federation of Young European Greens, archived at the Wayback Machine, 28 March 2012.
  5. ↑ Ulrich Schneider personal website, retrieved 10 August 2014 (German)
  6. ↑ Sebastian Kempkens, "Grüne Europaabgeordnete auf YouTube: Juhuuuu, Terry", Der Spiegel, 7 July 2014 (German)
  7. ↑ Jochen Bittner, "Auf der grünen Meinungsinsel", Editorial, Die Zeit, 10 July 2014 (German)
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