Parliamentary functions

- Member of the Committee on Culture and Medias
- Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Member of the Sub-Committee on cultural policy
abroad and education policy and new media
- Member of the Sub-Committee on new media

- Speaker of the parliamentary group of the SPD for
the Committee on Cultural and the Media Affairs

- Rapporteur for the Working Group on Cultural and
Media Affairs of the SPD parliamentary group
· external cultural policy
· Deutsche Welle
· German- French Working Group on Cultural Diversity
· Music
· Film
· Net price system for books

- Rapporteur for the Working Group on Foreign Affairs
of the SPD parliamentary group
· external cultural and educational policy
· Media Affairs
· France
· India
· Interparliamentary Union
· International environment politics

- Deputy Chair of the of the German-French
Parliamentarian’s Group
- Vice Chair of the SPD in the Interparliamentary Union
- Member of the German OSCE delegation
- Alternate member in the Advisory Committee for Arts
of the Bundestag

SPD Functions

- Member of the board of directors of the SPD Cultural
Forum
- Member of the SPD Commission on Media
- Vice-President of the subdistrict Harburg
- Parliamentary friendship group on Cuba of the SPD
parliamentary group and Latin-America
- Added Member of the county council of the district
Harburg

other functions

- Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm (Alternative Nobel
Prize)
- Member of the board of directors and the jury Music
Community in the German Parliament
- Chair Administrative board of the „Deutsche Welle“
Germany´s international broadcaster
- Vice Chairperson Member of the Administrative
council of the German Federal Film Board
- Member of the Preselection Jury of the German
Film Price
- Council of the Society for Cultural Policy Member
- Member of the Council of the „Foundation Memorial
for the Murdered Jews of Europe“
- Board of F.C. Flick Foundation against xenophobia,
racism and intolerance
- Vice Chair „Heinz-Galinski Foundation“
- Member of the board of trustees German UNESCO
commission
- Member Adenauer-de-Gaulle-Prize
- Member of the jury German Phono Academy
- Member Friends of the Rias Youth Orchestra
- Chairperson Initiator of the initiative „Gesicht zeigen“
against intolerance, racism and xenophobia

other memberships

- Amnesty International
- Unicef
- "Sozialverband Deutschland e.V"
(=socio-political association)
- "Arbeiterwohfahrt" (= workers welfare association)
- IG-Bau (=construction workers-union)
- "die Falken"
(=german social democrats youth organization)
- ADFC
- and others