Claudia Roth

Claudia Roth, born in 1955 in Ulm, Germany, is a Member of the German Bundestag and serves as Spokesperson for Development Policy for the parliamentary group Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens). She previously held the position of Minister of State for Culture and the Media (2021–2025) and served as Vice President of the German Bundestag (2013–2021).

After studying theatre arts at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, she worked as a dramaturge and later as the manager of the influential political rock band Ton Steine Scherben (a key voice of the German alternative movement in the 1970s and early 1980s). In 1985, Roth entered politics as the press spokesperson for the first Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She became a Member of the European Parliament in 1989, where she later chaired the Green group, and subsequently served as Chair of the Bundestag Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. From 2001 to 2013, she co-chaired Alliance 90/The Greens at the federal level.

Her political engagement focuses on culture in all its diversity, human and civil rights, climate action, development cooperation, feminism, anti-racism, and global justice. Claudia Roth is also active in numerous civil-society organizations, including Pro Asyl, the Tibet Initiative Germany, and the Queer Diversity Network (LSVD+).