Complex sentence: Many politicians received the medal, including Franz Götz and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, but also artists such as ballerina Konstanze Vernon, and clerics such Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, the later pope.
Split into simpler sentences: Many politicians received the medal, including Franz Götz and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger. The medal has been awarded also to artists such as ballerina Konstanze Vernon, and clerics such as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, the later pope.