Emilia Fester | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bundestag fromLower Saxony | |
| In office 1 January 2021 – 2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Emilia Johanna Fester (1998-04-28)28 April 1998 (age 27) Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Residence(s) | Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, Germany |
| Education | Churchill Academy and Sixth Form |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | Official website |
Emilia "Milla"Johanna FesterMdB (German pronunciation:[feːstɐ]; born 28 April 1998) is a German politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens[1] who served as aMember of the German Bundestag from 2021 to 2025.
Fester was born 28 April 1998 inHildesheim to Florian Brandhorst and Andrea Fester. Her parents were both actors and her mother also co-led the Center for Theater Pedagogics in Hildesheim.[2][3]
She attended Robert-Bosch-Gesamtschule, a public school, graduating with herAbitur in 2017. Between 2014 and 2015, Fester completed an international student exchange, atChurchill Academy and Sixth Form inNorth Somerset, England.[4] In 2017, she moved toHamburg, where she applied to Hochschule für Musik und Theater (English: University of Applied Sciences for Theater and Music), but she was not admitted.[5]
After not being admitted into college, Fester worked as an independent assistant director for the children and youth theater. Between 2018 and 2019 she worked as assistant director and stagehand atDeutsches Schauspielhaus.[6]
At age 23, Fester is theBaby of the House in the20th Bundestag.[7][8] She held this title untilEmily Vontz entered theBundestag in January 2023 succeedingHeiko Maas.[9] She is her parliamentary group's spokesperson for youth issues.[10]
In Berlin, Fester shared an apartment with fellow parliamentariansMarlene Schönberger andSaskia Weishaupt.[11] On September 23, 2022, Fester made public that she isbisexual as the second member of the Bundestag, afterRicarda Lang.[12]
