About myself

I was born in Dresden in 1996 and grew up in Riesa. My parents came to the GDR from Vietnam in the 1980s. My father got a job as a contract worker in the steelworks and my mother went with him. Like many others, we had great difficulties after reunification: my parents urgently needed new work because our residency was tied to it. So they sold fruit, vegetables and flowers on the roadside in Dresden’s Neustadt district. To this day, they earn their living with a small kiosk in Freital.

The story of my childhood is a story of poverty, interspersed with experiences of exclusion and racism. There were so many moments in my life when I was the only “foreigner” in the waiting room at the doctor’s, in kindergarten, in the supermarket.

But my family and I didn’t let that get us down. It makes us proud that we made it despite everything and that my siblings and I went to university. Despite all the anger and disappointment, I am happy to have met so many people who have given me and my family friendship, appreciation and solidarity.

These people shaped me, politicized me and convinced me that we can all live together differently and, above all, in greater solidarity. 

My vision is simple: I want a good and beautiful life for everyone in Saxony. But there are many obstacles in the way. Social inequality, poverty, low wages. Fear, isolation, exhaustion. All the politicians who kick down, stir up hatred and divide. And with the AfD, there is a party that threatens Saxony, because it endangers the future of us all.

I have been a member of the Left Party since 2015. My party hasn’t done everything right in recent times. But it is the only party that seriously wants to make policy for and with the people.