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Nini Tsiklauri (; born July 26, 1992 in

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, Georgia) is a German

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and author of Georgian origin.

Biography

Tsiklauri grew up in Georgia,

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and, since 2002, in Germany. She graduated from the Neues Gymnasium in Bochum. She made her acting debut in 2006 in the cinema film Die Wilden Kerle 3 - Die Attacke der Biestigen Biester as ''Aisha''. From 2007 to 2010, she played the role of Layla Farsad in the children's and youth series

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. In 2008, Tsiklauri sat on the jury of "

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Live - Best Actor Wanted". The song "Regenbogenzeit" (Rainbow Time) became more widely known through Schloss Einstein and was performed by her and her band from the series throughout Germany, including at the KiKA summer tour in 2010. In 2015, she founded the Voices of Volunteers choir as part of the

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and the Austrian TV programme "Die große Chance" on

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. Tsiklauri wrote the song "In My World" for the "Read for Tolerance" campaign at the 2010 German Reading Prize and is an ambassador for Fit am Ball Africa. In 2008, she asked

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at the Thuringia Future Conference for support for Georgia at the upcoming

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summit in

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. In the same year, she witnessed and documented the

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. In 2011 she received German citizenship. In 2012, Tsiklauri sang the

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at the official memorial service for the relatives of the war victims and the

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. In 2015, she took part in the TV programme "Popstars" and came 17th. Since 2014, Tsiklauri has been a member of the Young European Collective, a group of authors and activists from various European countries. In 2015, the group published her essay Who, If Not Us? in English. In 2017, the text was published in a German translation by the Droemer-Knaur publishing group under the title Wer, Wenn Nicht Wir? Four things we can do for Europe now. In 2017, while studying, she founded

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Vienna and traveled through Austria to educate people about the EU. For the 2019 European elections in Austria, Nini Tsiklauri ran for fifth place on the list of

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. However, due to the election result, she did not enter the

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. In 2023, she joined

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and has been involved with

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ever since. For the 2024 European elections in Austria, she was supposed to be running as the top candidate in first place on the Volt list, but Volt failed to submit the necessary amount of petition signatures by the end of the deadline and is therefore not allowed to run.

Filmography

* 2006: Die Wilden Kerle 3 (Role: Aisha, Biestiges Biest) * 2008–2010:

(Main role: Layla Farsad, 145 Folgen) * 2015:

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Bibliography

* ''Wer, wenn nicht wir? Vier Dinge, die wir jetzt für Europa tun können''. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2017. . * ''Re:thinking Europe – Positionen zur Gestaltung einer Idee''. Verlag Holzhausen GmbH, Vienna 2018. . * ''Lasst uns um Europa kämpfen – Mit Liebe und Mut für eine neue EU''. edition a, Vienna 2020. .

References

External links

Official Webpage of Nini Tsiklauri
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsiklauri, Nini Austrian women singers 1992 births Emigrants from Georgia (country) to Germany Women singers from Georgia (country) Austrian film actresses Volt Europa politicians Politicians from Vienna Living people 21st-century Austrian actresses