Ulrike Liedtke (née Nehrdich,[1] 17 November 1958) is a German musicologist and politician (SPD).

[2] She attended six schools[3] and studied musicology after her Abitur in Stralsund in 1977 at the Karl-Marx-University Leipzig.

[6][7][8] In 1985 and 1986, Liedtke was music editor for festival and opera broadcasts at the Deutscher Fernsehfunk in Berlin.

[4] From 1991 to 1993, she worked in the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture [de] of Brandenburg, responsible for Rheinsberg from September 1991.

A focus on works from the 18th century and contemporary music also enabled formats such as performance art.

[14] In the 2014 Brandenburg state elections she won a direct mandate in the Landtagswahlkreis Ostprignitz-Ruppin I [de] (Constituency 3).

From 2000 to 2017 she was an author and chairperson of the advisory board of the CD documentation Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000 [de] of the DMR.

[18] The German Council of Cultural Advisors elected Liedtke in 2019 as one of two vice presidents of the Deutscher Kulturrat.

She is an individual member of the Brandenburgischer Chorverband, as well as chairwoman of Tanz & Art Rheinsberg and the Ferdinand Möhring Gesellschaft.

[19] Liedtke wrote composers biographies for encyclopedias, including those of Gerd Domhardt, Siegfried Matthus, Günter Neubert and Karl Ottomar Treibmann: