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Bernhard Stengele

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Bernhard Stengele
Bernhard Stengele in 2024
Second Deputy Minister-President of Thuringia
Assumed office
1 February 2023
Preceded byAnja Siegesmund
Minister for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation of Thuringia
Assumed office
1 February 2023
Preceded byAnja Siegesmund
Spokesman for Alliance 90/The Greens in Thuringia
In office
25 January 2020 – 4 March 2023
Succeeded byMax Reschke
Personal details
Born
Bernhard Stengele

(1963-04-23) 23 April 1963 (age 61)
Wangen im Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Political partyAlliance 90/The Greens
ProfessionActor, director

Bernhard Stengele (born 23 April 1963) is a German director, actor, and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens, who has been serving as Second Deputy Minister-President and Minister for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation in the Thuringia state government since February 2023.[1] Between January 2020 and March 2023, he served as co-spokesperson of the party in Thuringia.[2]

Early life

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Stengele was born in Wangen im Allgäu, Baden-Württemberg on 23 April 1963, as the third of five children.[3]

Theatre career

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Stengele completed his acting training at the Ecole Monika Pagneux et Philipp Gaullier in Paris. After guest engagements at the Teatro itinerante del sol (Düsseldorf/Bogotá), at the Dance Theater Skoronel (Berlin), the Theaterwerkstatt Hannover and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (Hamburg), he became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Konstanz in 1992. In 1996 he moved to the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken, where he also started directing. In 2001, director Dagmar Schlingmann brought him back to the Stadttheater Konstanz as an actor and director. From 2004 to 2012 he was acting director at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. From 2012 to 2017 he worked in the same function at the Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia in Altenburg and Gera. Stengele has worked on co-productions with theatres in Burkina Faso, Greece, Turkey, and Israel. In 2017, he took on the management of the Summer Theater in Überlingen.[4][5][3]

Political career

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Stengele ran as candidate for Alliance 90/The Greens in Altenburger Land II in the 2019 Thuringian state election, receiving 5.6% of votes cast, and was not elected. On 25 January 2020, he was elected co-leader of the Thuringian branch of the party, alongside Ann-Sophie Bohm-Eisenbrandt.[2][3]

On 1 Februar 2023 Stengele succeeded Anja Siegesmund (who resigned for personal reasons) as Thuringia's Minister for the Environment, and also became the second Deputy Minister President in the coalition administration of Bodo Ramelow.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ "Minister Bernhard Stengele | Thüringer Umweltministerium".
  2. ^ a b "Bernhard Stengele, Landessprecher". Alliance 90/The Greens Thuringia. 11 June 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Biography". BernhardStengele.de.
  4. ^ "Mainfranken Theater Würzburg". Archived from the original on 22 May 2008.
  5. ^ "Theater Altenburg Gera".
  6. ^ mdr.de (9 January 2023). "Thüringen: Das sind die neuen Grünen-Minister". mdr.de (in German). Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Thüringen hat neue Migrationsministerin und neuen Umweltminister". mdr.de (in German). 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2023.