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Guests on "Sarah Tacke" include CDU Bundestag member Christoph Ploß, chairman of the Hamburg state group, Katja Kipping, managing director of the Paritätischer Gesamtverband (member of Die Linke), Tanja Schweiger, district administrator of Regensburg (Freie Wähler), and Zarah Bruhn, founder and managing director of the social enterprise socialbee.
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In 2015, thousands of people fled to Germany. A year later, Zarah Bruhn founded "Socialbee." Her idea: temporary work for refugees as a non-profit organization. The revenue was meant to fund their support and qualification. The business model has evolved, but the mission hasn't: successful integration of refugees into the labor market.
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socialbee founder Zarah Bruhn brings refugees into jobs and supports policymakers in promoting social entrepreneurship in Germany. Why the 33-year-old wants to create more jobs than top DAX corporations.
(Article is in German)
From 2022 to 2025, Zarah Bruhn served as Commissioner for Social Innovation at the Federal Ministry of Education. Today she works at the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovations, searching for societal breakthroughs. She explains what that looks like in concrete terms in this podcast.
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In her book "Wer, wenn nicht wir?: Unsere Zukunft neu denken" ("Who, If Not Us?: Rethinking Our Future"), Zarah Bruhn analyzes Germany's current situation and offers her vision for the future. The Munich native calls on society and businesses to shift perspective. Drawing on her own experience, she shows how it can be done, and how many people are already working on solutions to our societal challenges.
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In Germany, a false narrative is currently gaining ground: that everything is doomed. Yet there is ample evidence to the contrary. In their series "Why Germany is going downhill," they present the answers from Zarah Bruhn, the founder of the social enterprise socialbee.
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It's one of the major problems facing our society: businesses have an endless shortage of workers, while many refugees remain unemployed. Zarah Bruhn is changing that with her company socialbee.
(Article is in German)
The founder and CEO of socialbee is now also politically active. She supports people facing social disadvantage and helps drive forward the federal government's innovation strategy.
(Article is in German)