Tabea Rößner

Tabea Rößner (born 7 December 1966) is a German journalist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2025. In 2019, she unsuccessfully ran as the Green Party's candidate for Mayor of Mainz.

Early life and career Rößner was born in Sassenberg. She became a member of the Greens in 1986 and studied musicology, art history and media studies at the University of Cologne and the Goethe University Frankfurt.

In addition to her committee assignments, Rößner was a member of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). She was also a substitute member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2018 to 2025, where she served on the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media and the Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) on the national level following the 2021 German elections, Rößner was part of her party's delegation in the working group on cultural affairs and media policy, co-chaired by Carsten Brosda, Claudia Roth and Otto Fricke.

In July 2024, Rößner announced that she would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

Other activities Corporate boards Mainzer Stadtwerke, Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profit organizations German-Israeli Health Forum for Artificial Intelligence (GIHF-AI), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2022) Antenne Mainz, Member of the Broadcasting Council Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA), Member of the Advisory Board Haus der Geschichte, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2009) German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), Member Greenpeace, Member German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member

Personal life Rößner is married to media lawyer Karl-Eberhard Hain and has two children from a previous relationship.