Ursula "Ulla" Jelpke (born 9 June 1951) is a German journalist and politician. Jelpke is a member of the German Bundestag where she is domestic affairs spokesperson for the party Die Linke and represents the party in the internal affairs committee and the legal affairs committee.^[1]

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Ulla Jelpke
Jelpke in 2014
Born	(1951-06-09) 9 June 1951 (age 72) Hamburg, West Germany
Political party	The Left (Die Linke) Formerly: Alliance 90/The Greens

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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] Since 2003 she has been co-editor of the magazine Ossietzky.^[2]

Jelpke was a member of the Hamburg Bürgerschaft for the Green-Alternative List twice between 1981 and 1989. Starting from 1990, she has been a member of the 12th–14th, 16th and 17th German Bundestags respectively.^[1]

In November 2020, Jelpke announced that she would not seek reelection in the 2021 German federal election.^[3]