Ines Schwerdtner (born 26 August 1989)[1] is a German journalist and politician. She has been co-leader of The Left since October 2024. She was previously editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the socialist magazine Jacobin from 2019 to 2023.[2] She joined The Left in August 2023 and ran for the 2024 European Parliament election, but was not elected.[3] In the 2025 federal election her party increased its vote share and seat count, and she became a member of the Bundestag.[4]
Life
Schwerdtner grew up in Hamburg from the age of four.[5] She studied Political Science and English at the Free University of Berlin and was the overall coordinator of the magazine Das Argument before joining Jacobin. In addition, she was the host of the political podcast halbzehn.fm. She publishes political analyses and commentaries, among other things, in Der Freitag and in Analyse & Kritik.
Schwerdtner is involved in the initiative Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen.[6] As official representative for Jacobin, she is also one of the initiators of the "Enough is Enough" campaign, which was founded in 2022 in response to rising prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what she sees as insufficient government action to support poorer segments of the population.[7][8]
In 2023, as a member of the collective MF3000, she was involved in the book Ändern wir die Welt, sie braucht es! Eine marxistisch-feministische Ansage (Let's Change the World, A Marxist-Feminist Announcement), published by Querverlag. She also co-edited with Lukas Scholle the anthology Genug! (Enough!).[9]
Since October 2024 she has been federal chairperson of the Left Party together with Jan van Aken.[10]
References
- ↑ Biographical information is based on the DNB entry unless otherwise documented. DNB entry.
- ↑ Imprint of the Jacobin print editions 1 to 13.
- ↑ Ines Schwerdtner (25 August 2023). "inesschwerdtner.eu" (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bundestagswahl-2025-linke-abgeordnete-zahl-li.3208234
- ↑ "Linke: Jan van Aken und Ines Schwerdtner wollen Parteiführung übernehmen", Der Spiegel (in German), 20 August 2024, ISSN 2195-1349, retrieved 20 August 2024
- ↑ "Berliner Linke wollen beim Thema Enteignungen Druck machen". sueddeutsche.de (in German). 5 March 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ↑ Maximilian Beer (2 September 2022). ""Genug ist Genug": Linke Kampagne ruft zu Protesten gegen Bundesregierung auf". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ↑ "GENUG IST GENUG!" (in German). Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ↑ Kurt, Şeyda; Höfgen, Maurice; Heinrich, Sarah-Lee; Hirschel, Dierk (2023). Schwerdtner, Ines; Scholle, Lukas (eds.). Genug! warum wir einen politischen Kurswechsel brauchen (Erste Auflage, Originalausgabe ed.). Berlin: Brumaire. ISBN 978-3-948608-27-9.
- ↑ "Germany: Socialist Left Party elects new leaders – DW – 10/19/2024". dw.com. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
External links
- Website of Ines Schwerdtner.
- Publicist Schwerdtner on Europe's Left „Zerstreut, richtungslos und strategielos“("Scattered, directionless, and strategy-free"), Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 23. April 2022.
- Zeitschrift „Jacobin“ Die Welt mit einem Magazin verändern. Ines Schwerdtner im Gespräch mit Gesa Ufer (Changing the world with a magazine. Ines Schwerdtner in conversation with Gesa Ufer), Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 7. Oktober 2021.
- Hyperpolitik, Podcast from Ines Schwerdtner in co-work with Nils Schniederjann
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