At the general election in September 2013, Schimke unexpectedly gained the constituency of Dahme-Spreewald – Teltow-Fläming III – Oberspreewald-Lausitz I from the Social Democratic Party. She has since been serving on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, where she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on temporary employment and the situation in the East German states. In addition to her committee assignments, she is the chairwoman of the German-Spanish Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within the &lt;a href="CDU/CSU"&gt;CDU/CSU&lt;/a&gt;, she is a member of MIT, its pro-business wing.