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About Clara Ulrich

In the aftermath of Germany’s 2017 federal election, where the SPD suffered its worst result since 1949, Clara Ulrich led the internal post-mortem that reshaped the party’s narrative architecture. She didn’t just advise on slogans; she redesigned how social democratic policy was translated into lived experience: embedding childcare reform in neighborhood storytelling networks, reframing minimum wage increases as intergenerational justice rather than economic trade-offs, and insisting that digital infrastructure investments be audited for gendered labor impacts before launch. Her work with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung helped codify the ‘Hamburg Protocol,’ a now-adopted framework requiring all campaign materials to pass a dual-lens test, assessing both electoral viability and coherence with foundational social democratic principles like solidarity, ecological responsibility, and democratic participation. Based in Berlin but embedded in municipal coalitions from Gdansk to Lisbon, she treats political communication not as message delivery but as iterative co-construction, with unions, tenant associations, climate collectives, and youth councils jointly drafting talking points and vetoing frames that risk abstraction or paternalism.

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Did Clara Ulrich advise the 2023 Berlin state election campaign?
Yes—she led the narrative design for the Berlin SPD’s municipal housing platform, focusing on rent control enforcement rather than new construction targets. Her team trained over 200 local candidates to speak about vacancy rates using neighborhood-level data visualizations, shifting public discourse from abstract supply-demand models to tangible occupancy rights.
What is Clara Ulrich’s stance on AI in political campaigning?
She publicly opposed algorithmic microtargeting in the 2022 EU Digital Services Act negotiations, arguing it fragments democratic deliberation. Instead, she co-developed the 'Transparency-by-Design' standard—requiring all digitally deployed campaign content to include source citations, policy trade-off disclosures, and accessible audio transcripts—now adopted by six national social democratic parties.
Has Clara Ulrich worked outside Germany?
She advised the Czech ČSSD’s 2021 campaign revival strategy, recentering their platform on industrial transition in former coal regions. In Portugal, she co-facilitated the PS’s 2022 youth engagement initiative, embedding participatory budgeting tools directly into campaign rallies—resulting in 14,000+ youth-submitted policy proposals integrated into the final manifesto.
What publications or frameworks is Clara Ulrich known for?
She authored the 2020 monograph 'Narrative Sovereignty: Reclaiming Democratic Voice in Algorithmic Times' and co-drafted the 2023 Progressive Alliance Communication Charter. Her most cited contribution is the 'Three Thresholds Test'—a diagnostic tool evaluating whether campaign language meets thresholds of intelligibility, accountability, and relationality before public release.

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