Former German Finance Minister was a comedian
Former German Finance Minister, former leader of the SPD and rival Angela Merkel in the 2013 election, peer Steinbrueck, has suddenly changed occupation — he became an actor-comedian.
Former German Finance Minister, former leader of the SPD and rival Angela Merkel in the 2013 election, peer Steinbrueck, has suddenly changed occupation — he became an actor-comedian.
He teamed up with a professional comedian Florian Schroeder to go on a tour in Germany with satirical stand-up Comedy show.
Tickets to shows in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne are already completely sold out.
After he left the government last year, peer Steinbrueck has served on the Board of Directors of one of the Dutch banks.
Being a politician and official, Steinbrueck has repeatedly been in the focus of public attention due to their witty and often provocative actions and statements.
For example, in 2007, Steinbrueck family ostentatiously went on vacation to Namibia, instead of going to Washington for a meeting of Ministers of Finance “the Big seven”.
During the election campaign in 2013 Steinbrueck suddenly canceled his speech at the Bank Sarasin & Cie after the publication of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung that the Bank may be involved in the case about tax evasion.
At the same time, peer Steinbrueck complained that the salary of the Minister of Finance of Germany — 250 thousand Euro per year — is too small, even the Director of the regional savings banks, he said, receive more.
Finally, in February 2013 Steinbrueck commented on the election results in Italy the most undiplomatic way, saying that “won two clowns” — referring to the former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and the politics-populist (and indeed professional comedian) Beppe Grillo. In protest, the President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano has canceled a planned official lunch with Steinbruck.
Later, peer Steinbrueck, said that he called Berlusconi “inflated testosterone a clown” and the Italian elections, in his opinion, the winner was “populist.”