Franziska Katharina Brantner (born 24 August 1979, Lörrach) is a German member of the European Parliament (MEP). She is in The Greens–European Free Alliance group and is a member of the Foreign Affairs committee and the delegation for relations with Israel.

Brantner grew up in Neuenburg/Rhein. After graduating from the bilingual "Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium" in Freiburg im Breisgau and gathering her first international experiences working at the offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv and Washington D.C. she studied political science with focus on International Affairs and European Policy at the elite university Sciences Po in Paris and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in New York City, where she graduated in 2004.

Currently, she is finishing her dissertation, entitled "The reformability of the United Nations", at the University of Mannheim where she used to be a research associate at the department for Political Science II of Prof. Dr. Thomas König with a lectureship for International Policy. From 2006 to 2007 she worked as a research associate at the European Studies Centre of St Antony's College, Oxford.

Maybrit Illner (* 12 January 1965 in East-Berlin) is a German journalist.

After school in Berlin-Friedrichshain Illner studied from 1984 to 1988 journalism at University of Leipzig in Leipzig. Since 1992 Illner worked for German broadcaster ZDF (programme Morgenmagazin). Since October 1999 she presents programme Berlin Mitte (name changed in March 2007 to Maybrit Illner talk show) Since September 2010 she moderates together with Claus Kleber and Marietta Slomka German news-programme heute-journal on ZDF. After her first marriage with Michael Illner she married René Obermann on 14 August 2010 . They live in Berlin and Bonn.