Simone Barrientos | |
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 Simone Barrientos in 2025 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1963-10-05)5 October 1963 (age 62) |
| Political party | The Left |
Simone Barrientos (born 5 October 1963) is a German politician. Born inEisleben,Saxony-Anhalt, she representsThe Left. Simone Barrientos has served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBavaria from 2017 until 2021.[1]
Barrientos grew up inNeustrelitz as the child of a single mother who was a dancer with the folklore ensemble of the GDR and the Friedrich-Wolf-Theater in Neustrelitz. She was also looked after in state nurseries and in a Catholic children's home. After attending school, she first learned the profession of an industrial electrician at theDeutsche Reichsbahn. At the age of 17 she gave birth to a son whose father had left for the "West". She completed a further apprenticeship as a commercial advertiser. After thefall of the Berlin Wall in the GDR, she worked in various sectors until 2008: as adraftswoman,interpreter, in acasting office and infilm production. From 2008 to 2017, she managed the publishing house Kulturmaschinen. She became member of the bundestag after the2017 German federal election,[2] where she was a member of the Committee for Culture and Media.[3] She was also the spokesperson for cultural policy for her parliamentary group.[4]
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