Marta Corbal
Updated Friday, February 23, 2024-9:40 p.m.
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Politics Doctor in economics, lesbian, two children... Alice Weidel, image of the new German extreme right
Elke Büdenbender Discreet, sensitive, intelligent and "simply brilliant": this is the German first lady
Feminist, lesbian
, with an oriental girlfriend and two adopted children... She could be the heroine of a
Netflix
popcorn series.
However, in real life, Alice Elisabeth Weidel (Gütersloh, 1979) plays the villain reviled by postmodernity.
Impeccable suit, ambiguous expression and strong character, the leader of the
Alternative for Germany
(AfD) unhesitatingly defends the values of the
party furthest to the right of the Bundestag.
In the German Parliament, he is concerned about
the Christian hegemony of the West
, meticulous border control and the prevalence of the traditional family.
At his house, he goes out of his way to make
Sarah Bossard, his partner, happy.
A
filmmaker originally from Sri Lanka
with whom he raises two children.
The bridge that unites both worlds
is its liberalism.
In fact, it was in the Liberal Party (FDP) where he began
his political career.
He was driven by his admiration for Margaret Thatcher and her desire to
keep money in her pocket.
Something she learned as a child, watching her parents.
Alice Weidel at an Alternative for Germany rally in 2023AP
His childhood was spent in Harsewinkel, a small town in the north.
His father was a wealthy
office furniture salesman
and her mother was a housewife.
In this idyllic environment, with countryside and dachshund included in the brochure, she was educated along with her
two older brothers
.
He was nourished by a traditional recipe education: family, private property and Christianity.
A righteousness that did not penetrate
her older brother, a rocker with long hair
who played in a band and organized parties in the basement of the house where Alice learned to throw beer.
All to the chagrin of Gerhard Weidel, her father, a severe man who today
also works in the AfD.
Nobody doubted that this studious and formal girl
would honor her father and mother
.
Although Ella Weidel planned to study Medicine, in 1998 she enrolled in
Economics and Business Administration
at the University of Bayreuth.
Subsequently, she obtained a doctorate at the Faculty of Law and Economics with a
scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
.
An aid for outstanding students created by the Christian Democratic Union and named after the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Ironically, during the years in which Konrad Adenauer served as German chancellor, between 1949 and 1963, he was also one of the
founding fathers of the European Union.
While his most significant scholarship is as
Eurosceptic
as he is idealistic with the most staunch
German nationalism
.
He is also very critical of the UDC.
"Donald Trump said Merkel
was crazy
and I totally agree," she said in 2015 about the former chancellor when she decided to take in more than
a million refugees,
almost all of them Syrian.
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In 2013 he had left the Liberal Party to join the newly created Alternative for Germany.
Alice Weidel belonged to the most centrist wing of a party that seeks to follow
a markedly far-right trajectory.
The economist is clear that the future of her party depends on a
not-so-reactionary conservatism
and that her enemy, both of feminism and of Germany, is found in Islam.
In her opinion, immigration is wreaking
havoc on German identity
and the role of women in society.
Weidel comes from private business and
from being an emigrant herself.
She worked for Goldman Sachs in the United States, at Allianz Global Investors Europe in Frankfurt and at the Bank of China for six years.
She then
returned to Germany
to undertake startup advisory duties.
In parallel, she was
rising in her party
.
From a rank-and-file militant she went on to represent the party in the 2017 German federal elections.
The Weidel era was the
catalyst for a residual party.
That year, the group went
from zero to 94 seats of the 709 in the Lower House
.
They became leaders of the opposition and alarm bells went off among the non-affiliated press.
Headline: "The extreme right breaks into the Bundestag for the first time since 1945."
When she is not speaking from her lectern or remaining cloistered in meetings in Berlin, Weidel
returns home to be with Sarah Bossard
and her children.
The couple is civilly united and
resides in Einsiedeln (Switzerland)
.
They recently moved from the Swiss city of Biel because
they called their son "Fucking Nazi" at school.
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Although their children see them every day as they are,
a monogamous lesbian couple
, they refuse to let their children learn LGBT education at school and to call themselves
queer
.
Her children are not biological because of her own ideas and also because
Bossard herself, born in Sri Lanka
,
was adopted as a child
by Swiss shepherds.
Director and producer, Sarah Bossard has been making films for Swiss cinema and television
for years
.
She highlights
The Divine Order
, a film about a suffragette fighting for
women's right to vote
in Switzerland in the 1970s.
In his free time, Bossard
enjoys reading, riding his motorcycle, and skateboarding
.
When he can, he enjoys outings in the mountains with Alice.
In their only public video, Alice and Sarah
dance to
In My Arms
by Kylie Minogue
in the car.
Showing that they are a happy and young interracial couple.
More than villains of woke cinema, they look like Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley in
I Want to Be Like Beckham.