160 women competed – but only one of them got the title in the end. The new “Miss Germany” wants to use her reach to make topics like social justice “sexier”.
Rust – The social entrepreneur and actress Domitila Barros from Berlin is the new “Miss Germany”.
The 37-year-old grew up in a favela in Brazil and worked in a street children’s project run by her parents. Issues such as social justice and the environment are close to her heart, she said at the election in Europa-Park in Rust, Baden. “We all live on Mother Earth. And she needs us really badly at the moment.”
She wants to make these topics “cooler, maybe even a little bit sexier,” said Barros. She mainly uses social media for this. “The people I want to reach don’t read all the newspaper articles – but they scroll,” she said. After the freestyle she collapsed on the stage, the ten other candidates rushed to her.
The 2021/22 season started with a Germany-wide top 160 – and unlike before, independent of the federal states. Women between the ages of 18 and 39 who had a “mission” could apply. A jury of celebrities and the audience during an online broadcast voted on the best of the eleven finalists. dpa
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