How Claudia Roth got her ticket to the Oscar gala – culture

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Susan Vahabzadeh

In terms of Oscars, March 12, 2023 was the most successful day in German film history, and for Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and Media, it was also quite exciting. The German Netflix production “Nothing New in the West” was nominated for nine Oscars and then won four, two other films that received German film funding, “Tár” and “Triangle of Sadness”, were also in the running. Nothing New in the West wasn’t funded with taxpayers’ money, but that just means the Secretary of State appears to have displayed a more fundamental enthusiasm when she traveled to Los Angeles. In the end, Claudia Roth was even present at the Oscar ceremony, which was broadcast all over the world. But how did she actually get in there?

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