High-ranking public figures including German chancellor Angela Merkel and cabinet members Annette Schavan, Ulla Schmidt and Brigitte Zypries, as well as Berlin’s governing mayor Klaus Wowereit have confirmed their attendance at the Bertelsmann Party 2007. They will be joined by German actors Veronica Ferres, Lara Joy Körner, Sebastian Koch, Hannes Jaenicke, as well as directors Helmut Dietl and Sönke Wortmann. Anne Will, Elke Heidenreich and Dieter Bohlen will represent the media realm, while the business world will be represented by entrepreneurs including Hartmut Mehdorn, Mathias Döpfner and Wulf H. Bernotat.