Germany decides: A look at who is voting today
As Germans across the country cast their vote, DW looks at people exercising their democratic right.
Angela Merkel visits Berlin polling station
...where she presumably voted for herself.
SPD leader Martin Schulz casts his ballot
Together with his wife Inge, Martin Schulz voted in his hometown of Würselen near Aachen.
Cem Özdemir votes
The leader of the Greens cast his vote in Berlin. Should the Green party get enough of the vote on Sunday, the party could possibly enter coalition talks.
Postal vote
Some of the top candidates have already cast their vote by postal ballot. The FDP's Christian Lindner, the Left party's Sarah Wagenknecht as well as the AfD's Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel chose to vote that way.
Dieter Bartsch votes
Dieter Bartsch, one of the two top candidates of the Left party casts his vote in his constituency in Prerow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Long lines in Berlin
These people in Berlin are prepared to queue for as long as it takes to cast their vote. By midday, voter turnout was down slightly from the last federal election in 2013.
All Germans have the right to vote
A woman in a headscarf puts her vote in the ballot box in Berlin Kreuzberg. One in ten eligible voters has a migrant background, meaning that they or their parents were not born as German citizens.
Multicultural Germany turns out
This German-Bangladeshi family talks to DW after voting in Berlin. A total of 37 out of 631 Bundestag representatives migrated to Germany or are the children of migrants.
Taking it easy on election day
A dog yawns as its owner casts his ballot at a polling in the small town of Würselen near Aachen. Some have criticized that this year's race between the Merkel's CDU and Schulz's SPD has been less than exciting. But the race for third place in the Bundestag has many "smaller" parties holding their breaths.