Martin Sonneborn
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Martin Sonneborn MEP |
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| Member of European Parliament for Germany | |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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15 May 1965 Göttingen, West Germany |
| Political party | Die PARTEI |
| Occupation | Satirist |
Martin Sonneborn (born 15 May 1965) is a German satirist and Member of the European Parliament. He was editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Titanic from 2000 to 2005 and works for Spiegel Online and ZDF.
He became famous for a bribery affair in 2000 regarding the 2006 FIFA World Cup assignment to Germany, in which he offered FIFA officials a small gift for their vote in favor of Germany.
Sonneborn went to school in Osnabrück and studied Communication, German and Politics in Münster, Vienna and Berlin. His magister thesis covered the satirical magazine Titanic "and the range of effectivity of satire".
After undertaking an internship at satirical magazine Eulenspiegel in 1995, Sonneborn started writing for Titanic, whose editor-in-chief he became in 2000. He was superseded by Thomas Gsella in October 2005, but remained column writer until April 2012. He has been co-editor of Titanic since 2006.
In August 2004, Sonneborn founded the satirical political party Die PARTEI, one of whose aims is to rebuild the Berlin Wall around Germany. He has been its chairman since 2004 and was top candidate in Berlin state election, 2011. Along with director Andreas Coerper, Sonneborn filmed a documentary about the party's development and activities from foundation until 2009.
Sonneborn is staff leader of satirical column SPAM at Spiegel Online since November 2006 and reporter for the satirical TV programme heute-show on ZDF from May 2009 to September 2014.
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