I missed the winning campaign over the summer for a seat on the European Union parliament, but the
German and
Austrian editions of
The Local present a comprehensive and funny retrospective of Martin Sonneborn’s first few months in office. The sometimes poisonously controversal satirist and former editor of the Germany’s national lampoon magazine, Titantic—much like
The Onion, and regular contributor the Der Spiegel’s humour column formed die Partei (the Party) as a joke back into 2004, and since then the comedian’s platform and the voting public eventual presented candidate Martin with a
mandate. If nothing else, I am sure that the experience is providing material for years to come.
