Ursula "Ulla" Jelpke (born 9 June 1951) is a German journalist and politician.

[1] As a trained hairdresser and book seller, Jelpke later acquired a high school diploma and studied sociology and economics.

From 2002 until 2005 she headed the domestic affairs desk at the newspaper Junge Welt in Berlin.

[1] In November 2020, Jelpke announced that she would not seek reelection in the 2021 German federal election.

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