 Claudia Roth began her artistic work, which she always regarded as also being political, in the 1970s as a trained artistic director at a theatre in Memmingen.She then worked at the municipal theatre in Dortmund and the Hoffmanns-Comic-Teater, and subsequently became involved as a manageress with the political rock band "Ton Steine Scherben" until 1985, when the band disbanded due to the band's high debt burden.She came into contact with the Green party on election campaign tours.