Tabea Rößner | |
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 Rößner in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2009–2025 | |
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| Born | (1966-12-07)7 December 1966 (age 58) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Children | 2 |
Tabea Rößner (born 7 December 1966) is a German journalist and politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of theBundestag from 2009 to 2025.[1] In 2019, she unsuccessfully ran as the Green Party's candidate forMayor of Mainz.[2]
Rößner was born inSassenberg. She became a member of the Greens in 1986 and studied musicology, art history and media studies at theUniversity of Cologne and theGoethe University Frankfurt.[1] During her studies, she completed an internship with New York-basedcomposerAndrew Culver in 1989.
From 1991 until 2009, Rößner worked as a freelance journalist forHessischer Rundfunk,RTL andZDF.
From 2001 until 2006, Rößner served as co-chair of the Green Party inRhineland-Palatinate, alongside Manfred Seibel.
Rößner first became a member of the GermanBundestag in the2009 federal election, representing Mainz. She initially served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Media from 2009 until 2017 before moving to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection following the2017 elections. She was her parliamentary group'srapporteur onpublic broadcasting. Following the 2021 elections, Rößner chaired the Committee on Digitization.[3]
In addition to her committee assignments, Rößner was a member of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States ofCentral Asia (Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Uzbekistan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan) and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia (Afghanistan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,Maldives,Nepal,Pakistan, andSri Lanka). She was also a substitute member of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2018 to 2025, where she served on the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media and the Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage.[4]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) on the national level following the2021 German elections, Rößner was part of her party's delegation in the working group on cultural affairs and media policy, co-chaired byCarsten Brosda,Claudia Roth andOtto Fricke.[5]
In July 2024, Rößner announced that she would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6]
Rößner is married to media lawyer Karl-Eberhard Hain and has two children from a previous relationship.[9]
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