Gregor Gysi
Gregor Gysi is a German attorney and key politician of the political party The Left , a party which emerged in part from the old East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany .
Gysi was born in East Berlin, Soviet Zone of Germany. His father, Klaus Gysi, was a highranking official in East Germany, and had been Minister of Culture from 196673. His mother, Irene, was the sister of political activist Gottfried Lessing, who was married to British writer and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, during his exile in Southern Rhodesia. The surname Gysi is of SwissGerman origin. He is of partial Jewish ancestry his paternal grandmother was Jewish, as was one of his maternal greatgrandfathers. One of his maternal greatgrandmothers was Russian. His sister, Gabriele, is an actress, who escaped from East Germany in 1985. Today, she is chief dramaturge at the Volksbhne in Berlin.
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