She became a member of the coordination group of Attac Munich, to which she belonged until 2003, and took part in the protests against the World Economic Summit in Genoa in the summer of 2001.

In the 2009 federal election, she received 5.9% of the votes as a direct candidate in the Munich-East constituency, and entered the German Bundestag for the first time as a member of parliament via the state list of The Left.

[4] She also calls for the restriction of fixed-term employment contracts in the higher education sector: only "formal and certifiable qualification goals" (master's thesis, doctorate, habilitation) should justify a time limit.

[5] In 2016, she rejected the cooperation of the University of Bremen with the Bundeswehr and praised the legal opinion of the association "NaturwissenschaftlerInnen-Initiative Verantwortung für Frieden und Zukunftsfähigkeit" (Natural Scientists' Initiative Responsibility for Peace and Sustainability), which had presented the incompatibility of the cooperation with the civil clause of the University Constitution.

In January 2018, together with Niema Movassat, Tobias Pflüger, Norbert Müller, and other members of parliament, they published the appeal "Solidarity is indivisible"[8] on the platform bewegunglinke.org, which advocated "full freedom of movement and equal social and political participation for all people living in Germany."

[9] When Wagenknecht's collective movement "Aufstehen" did not participate in the demonstration "Unteilbar" in October 2018, Gohlke called it "incomprehensible to distance oneself from thousands of people who support left-wing, humane politics.

"[10] A unanimous decision by the Left parliamentary group against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in 2011 only came about because Gohlke and 14 other members stayed away from the vote.

Gohlke's parliamentary colleague Jan van Aken described the suspension as absurd and showed a picture of the PKK flag, for which he received a call for order.

According to the Taz, she was suspicious because of her membership in the post-Trotskyist network Marx21, an antifa emblem, and her involvement in extra-parliamentary opposition groups.