{{Short description|Chilean columnist and politician}} {{Family name hatnote|Kaiser|Barents-Von Hohenhagen|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Vanessa Kaiser | image = Senado 2026 Vanessa Olimpia Kaiser Barents von Hohenhagen.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|10|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Santiago, Chile | office = Member of the Senate | constituency = Araucanía Region | term_start = 11 March 2026 | term_end = | office1 = Member of the Las Condes City Council | term_start1 = 28 June 2021 | term_end1 = 28 April 2022 | profession = | occupation = Journalist • YouTuber • Politician | party = PNL (since 2024) | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Finis Terrae University<ref name="Disenso"/> (BA)|University of Chile<ref name="Disenso"/> (MA)|Pontifical Catholic University of Chile<ref name="Disenso">{{Cite web|url=https://fundaciondisenso.org/author/vanesa-kaiser/|title=Vanessa Kaiser Profile at Fundación Disenso|publisher=Fundación Disenso|accessdate=11 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cienciapolitica.uc.cl/noticias/466-nuevos-graduados-de-doctor-en-ciencia-politica|title=Se entregan nuevos grados de doctor en Ciencia Política|accessdate=12 August 2021}}</ref> (PhD)}} | children = | relatives = Axel and Johannes Kaiser (brothers) | birth_name = Vanessa Olimpia Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen | website = {{URL|https://www.telepensantes.com/}} | other_party = PRCh (2020–2021)<br>Independent (2021–2024) | successor1 = Leonardo Prat Fernández }} '''Vanessa Olimpia Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen'''<ref name="Rep">{{Cite web|url=https://republicanosporchile.cl/candidato/vanessa-von-concejal-por-las-condes/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614090556/https://republicanosporchile.cl/candidato/vanessa-von-concejal-por-las-condes/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 14, 2021|title=Vanessa Olimpia Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen, Concejal por Las Condes|accessdate=11 August 2021}}</ref> (born 25 October 1977) is a Chilean columnist and politician who served as a councilwoman of Las Condes, since 2024 is member of the National Libertarian Party founded by her brother Johannes Kaiser.
== Biography == Vanessa Kaiser was born from Hans Christian Kaiser Wagner and Rosmarie Barents Haensgen, a German-Chilean family.<ref name=genealog>{{Cite web|title=K {{!}} Inmigrantes Alemanes al Sur de Chile|url=https://www.genealog.cl/Alemanes/K.html#KAISER|access-date=23 December 2021|website=www.genealog.cl}}</ref>
Her paternal grandparents were Rosemarie Wagner Schilling, a fourth-generation German-Chilean, and her husband, the German immigrant Friedrich Ernst Kaiser Richter,<ref name=genealog/> who defined politically as a Social Democrat, arrived in Chile as a refugee from Wurtemberg in 1936,<ref name=Interferencia/><ref name="doble">{{cite web|access-date=17 February 2025 |first1=Juan |first2=Valeria |language=es |last1=Oportot Campillay |last2=Vega Vargas |publisher=Universidad de Chile |title=El universo de los hermanos Kaiser: la historia de la familia que busca llegar a La Moneda |url=https://doble-espacio.uchile.cl/2024/05/25/el-universo-de-los-hermanos-kaiser-la-historia-de-la-familia-que-busca-llegar-a-la-moneda/ |work=Doble Espacio|date=26 May 2024 }}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> escaping National Socialist Germany<ref>{{cite web|access-date=17 February 2025 |language=es |publisher=El Mercurio |title=Los influyentes y polémicos hermanos Kaiser |url=https://www.litoralpress.cl/sitio/Prensa_Texto?LPKey=OSZGYYFTH5HV3IS625BGKS7BVOYYZDKIMKQVI5OWDPNKRZVBEAJQ |website=LitoralPress}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> after Adolf Hitler's rise to power and before World War II, having foreseen its outbreak.<ref name="elpaís">{{cite web |author1=Antonia Laborde |title=El fenómeno Kaiser, el presidenciable que corrió los márgenes de la extrema derecha chilena |url=https://elpais.com/chile/2025-02-16/el-fenomeno-kaiser-el-presidenciable-que-corrio-los-margenes-de-la-extrema-derecha-chilena.html |publisher=El País |access-date=17 February 2025 |language=es |date=16 February 2025}}</ref><ref name="doble"/>
He married his wife in April 1939<ref name=genealog/> and settled in Villarrica in Southern Chile, where he was eventually elected as the 9th mayor of the city, serving between May 1956 and October 1957.<ref name=Interferencia>{{cite web|access-date=17 February 2025 |language=es |publisher=Interferencia |title=El universo de los hermanos Kaiser: la historia de la familia que busca llegar a La Moneda |date=9 June 2024 |url=https://interferencia.cl/articulos/el-universo-de-los-hermanos-kaiser-la-historia-de-la-familia-que-busca-llegar-la-moneda}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Her father was active in the National Party, serving as a youth leader.<ref name=Interferencia/>
She has a Master of Arts in philosophy, a PhD in political sciences and a PhD in philosophy.
She is the CEO of the Libertarian Centre of Studies of Chile ({{langx|es|Centro de Estudios Libertarios}} CEL),<ref name="Disenso"/> and a columnist of El Líbero<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Vanessa Kaiser|url=https://ellibero.cl/columnista/vanessa-kaiser/|access-date=2021-10-18|website=El Líbero|date=26 November 2017|language=es}}</ref> and El Mostrador.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/autor/vanessakaiser/|title=Vanessa Kaiser/El Mostrador|date=28 November 2013 |publisher=El Mostrador|accessdate=12 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2013/11/28/el-juicio-de-eichmann-y-la-condena-de-arendt/|title=El juicio de Eichmann y la condena de Arendt|publisher=El Mostrador|date=28 November 2013|accessdate=12 August 2021}}</ref> Her brothers are Axel Kaiser, a Chilean lawyer and author, of Johannes Kaiser, a congressman and Politician, founder of the National Libertarian Party,<ref name=":0" /><ref name="LT">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/222-millones-la-demanda-de-la-familia-de-axel-kaiser-por-la-golpiza-que-sufrio-su-hermano/448761/|title=$222 millones: La demanda de la familia de Axel Kaiser por la golpiza que sufrió su hermano|publisher=La Tercera|date=17 December 2018|accessdate=12 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.celchile.org/post/a-10-a%C3%B1os-de-la-fatal-ignorancia-el-creciente-legado-de-axel-kaiser|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001045210/https://www.celchile.org/post/a-10-a%C3%B1os-de-la-fatal-ignorancia-el-creciente-legado-de-axel-kaiser|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 1, 2020|title=A 10 años de "La Fatal Ignorancia": el creciente legado de Axel Kaiser|first1=Juan Cristóbal|last1=Demian|work=celchile |publisher=CEL Chile|date=20 June 2019|accessdate=11 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.litoralpress.cl/sitio/Prensa_Texto?LPKey=MEaHj4IXrpVS2/KV9v10%C3%9COZ/tGMIV/fLIx4D6wilrhY%C3%96|title=Los K|publisher=Litoral Press|date=13 March 2020|accessdate=11 August 2021}}</ref> along with three other less prominent siblings.<ref name=Interferencia/>
Vanessa has given a lecture at the Fundación para el Progreso (FPP), where she has denounced liberalism as the "true bailout [of society]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zwGazm2xPE|title=El liberalismo como verdadero salvataje – Ágora Live|publisher=Fundación para el Progreso|date=15 April 2020|accessdate=11 August 2021}}</ref>
She held the Hannah Arendt chair of the Autonomous University of Chile between 2018 and 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldesconcierto.cl/nacional/2019/06/20/redes-se-debe-estar-revolcando-en-su-tumba-critican-a-directora-de-catedra-hannah-arendt-por-defender-al-partido-republicano.html|title="Se debe estar revolcando en su tumba»: Critican a directora de cátedra "Hannah Arendt" por defender al Partido Republican"|publisher=El Desconcierto|date=20 June 2019|accessdate=11 August 2021}}</ref>
She was elected as councilman of Las Condes in 2021 and resigned in 2022 for personal reasons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lascondes.cl/municipalidad/autoridades/um-autoridades/concejales.html|title=Concejales – Municipalidad de Las Condes|publisher=Municipality of Las Condes|date=28 July 2021|accessdate=11 August 2021|archive-date=12 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812003628/https://www.lascondes.cl/municipalidad/autoridades/um-autoridades/concejales.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://contrapodernews.com/vanessa-kaiser-es-juramentada-como-concejal-por-la-comuna-de-las-condes/|title=Vanessa Kaiser es juramentada como Concejal por la comuna de Las Condes|date=28 July 2021|accessdate=11 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://contrapodernews.com/vanessa-kaiser-el-modo-en-que-en-chile-se-ha-manejado-la-pandemia-es-de-orates/|title=Vanessa Kaiser: "El modo en que en Chile se ha manejado la pandemia es de orates"|date=19 May 2021|accessdate=11 August 2021}}</ref>
She signed the ''Madrid Charter'', a document drafted by the far-right Spanish party Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of Ibero-America involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime."<ref name=":42">{{Cite web|title=Carta de Madrid|url=https://fundaciondisenso.org/carta-de-madrid/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Fundación Disenso|date=26 October 2020 |language=es}}</ref>
==Works==
===Books=== * with Alejandro Briones Bascuñan: ''Triple corona. Rockford''. Rockford, Chile 2007, {{OCLC|1318901673}}. * «En vez de una sola mirada». Santiago, RIL Editorial, 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buscalibre.cl/libro-en-vez-de-una-sola-mirada/9789562848411/p/4595577|title=En Vez De Una Sola Mirada, Vanessa Kaiser. Ril|publisher=Busca Libre|accessdate=12 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://isbn.cloud/9789562848411/en-vez-de-una-sola-mirada/|title=En Vez De Una Sola Mirada|publisher=ISBN Cloud|accessdate=12 August 2021}}</ref> * «Que no te rompan el corazón». Santiago, 2018.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Que no te rompan el corazón|year=2018|isbn=978-1983321696|last1=Kaiser|first1=Vanessa}}</ref> * ''Estudio nietzscheano del Mandamiento: «amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo» (Mateo 22:39)''. Philosophische Dissertation, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 2019. * «El Progresismo y la Cultura de la Muerte. Claves para entender el proyecto ideológico y político de la Nueva Izquierda». Editorial Conservadora, Santiago 2024, ISBN 978-956-6172-32-1.
===Articles=== * «Populismo en América Latina. Una revisión de la literatura y la agenda». Austral University Social Sciences Magazine. N°17. 2017.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://revistas.uach.cl/index.php/racs/article/view/997|title=Revista UACH: Populismo en América Latina. Una revisión de la literatura y la agenda|journal=Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales|publisher=Austral University of Chile|date=13 December 2017|issue=17|pages=75–100|doi=10.4206/rev.austral.cienc.soc.2009.n17-05|accessdate=12 August 2021|last1=V|first1=Andrés Dockendorff|doi-access=free}}</ref> * «La pluralidad humana en tanto conditio per quan de la vida política». Academy of Christian Humanism University Scholar Magazine. N°20. Vol. 85. 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319144683|title=La pluralidad humana en tanto conditio per quan de la vida política|date=11 December 2015|accessdate=12 August 2021}}</ref> * «George Kateb, Dignidad Humana». Vol. 32. N°1. Harvard University Press, 2011.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.cuadernos.info/index.php/rcp/article/view/11152|title=George Kateb, Dignidad Humana. Cambridge, Massachusetts y Londres, Inglaterra |journal=Harvard University Press|date=7 January 2020|doi=10.4067/S0718-090X2012000100016|accessdate=12 August 2021|doi-access=free}}</ref> * «El Neomercantilismo como modelo de mercado en Latinoamérica». Pléyade Magazine (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). N°5. 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/33124|title=El Neomercantilismo como modelo de mercado en Latinoamérica|publisher=Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Repository|accessdate=12 August 2021}}</ref> * With Andrés Dockendorff «Populismo en América Latina. Una revisión de la literatura y la agenda». Revista de Ciencias Sociales 2009 Page 75–100 DOI: 10.4206/rev.austral.cienc.soc.2009.n17-05
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==External links== * {{Twitter|vanessakaiser22}}
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