She joined the AfD in 2013 and just a year later was made chairman of JA in Saxony and deputy spokesperson.

Shortly before the elections in 2017, she resigned from the AfD in support of the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP).

She sees herself as libertarian and publicly recommended the FDP in the 2017 federal elections and caused a sensation with her book Inside AFD: Der Bericht einer Aussteigerin, published by Europa-Verlag on 3 August 2018, in which she describes the AfD behind the scenes.

The mass media focused in particular on their assertion that former party leader Frauke Petry was once advised by the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen.

She supported this claim with an affidavit after the denial of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz).