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German Culture Commissioner Claudia Roth believes she has made an impact on federal culture and media policy since taking office in December 2021 in the three-party coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “What was important for me – which is recognizable – is to have reset the course,” Roth, a member of the Green party, told dpa in Berlin. Roth, 68, who has in the past served in the German parliament, the European Parliament and as co-head of her party, believes the notion of “culture” has been expanded under her leadership. “It was urgently necessary to end this separation of elite and oste…

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