Aufstehen

Its co-founders and participants included leading members of Germany's left-oriented parties as well as supporters from science and the arts.

This included focusing on the issues concerning voters lost to new right-wing movements which have recently emerged in German politics.

[1][2] After Wagenknecht withdrew from the leadership of the movement in March 2019 and a number of its other notable figures subsequently turned away from it, the initiative became less prominent.

Notable figures involved include the sociologist Wolfgang Streeck and SPD politician Simone Lange, who was defeated for the leadership of the party in 2018 by Andrea Nahles.

The founders of Aufstehen argue against the rise in social injustice and urge leftist parties to unite in order to bring about a change in German politics.