Dorothée Menzner
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Dorothée Luise Menzner née Katz (born 14 September 1965 in Darmstadt) is a German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, until 2021 Die Linke/PDS). She was state chairwoman of the Party of Democratic Socialism in Lower Saxony from 1998 to 2006 and a member of the German Bundestag for her party from 2005 to 2013.
After graduating from high school in 1985, Menzner first completed a voluntary social year in a home for the mentally and multiply disabled and began studying economics at the University of Hanover in 1986. After her intermediate diploma, she changed her subject and began studying architecture, which she completed in 1996 with a degree in engineering.
From 1999 to 2002, Menzner worked for the PDS Bundestag and was initially unemployed after leaving the Bundestag. From 2003 to 2005, she was self-employed. From 2005 to 2013, Menzner was a Member of the German Bundestag. Since 2012, she has worked as a freelance publicist and film producer. In 2012, she produced the film Hibakusha - Journey to the Island of Happiness about Japan one year after the Fukushima disaster.[1]
After her Bundestag mandate, Menzner became self-employed as a legal counselor. From 2015 to 2018, she studied part-time again and graduated with a bachelor's degree in "Care and Guardianship" in November 2018.
Menzner is widowed and has one son.
