That was the headline that Germany's leading news weekly, Der Spiegel, used to describe the political phenomenon that is Sahra Wagenknecht, said Elena Sevillano in El País (Madrid). The 54-year ...

Once the face of the socialist Left Party, 55-year-old Sahra Wagenknecht is well-known in Germany. She abandoned the party last year to found a new one that bears her own name: the Sahra ...

Germany’s former Finance Minister Christian Lindner was hit in the face with a fake cake at a campaign event ... trailing all the major parties and even the recently formed movement of Sahra ...

Born in communist East Germany, to a German mother and Iranian father, Sahra Wagenknecht has long been the face of the country’s hard left. But her own breakaway political movement, supporting a ...

The force I'm referring to is Sahra Wagenknecht, the glamorous and divisive enigma who has emerged as kingmaker while the mainstream parties try to keep the AfD out of coalition governments there.

FEW GERMAN politicians divide opinion like Sahra Wagenknecht ... office in Berlin, Ms Wagenknecht outlines her political philosophy and her aims. “Without a prominent face, no one knows what ...

BERLIN, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Germany's political newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), said on Monday it might legally challenge the results of the national election after narrowly missing ...

Sahra Wagenknecht is less a politician than an icon: a moving, speaking statue whose public appearances prompt fervour and fascination among her supporters. Take Rudolstadt, a small town in ...