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 ...

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 ...

Sahra Wagenknecht, a former Communist, has founded her own party to respond to German grievances about migrants, crime and the dangers of the war in Ukraine. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger ...

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 ...