Paulina Fröhlich

Paulina Fröhlich is Deputy Managing Director and responsible for the focus area “Resilient Democracy” at Das Progressive Zentrum. There she leads the democracy conference “Innocracy”, designs dialogue and discourse spaces and is co-author of studies and discussion papers such as The Disregarded. A study on the importance of regional perspectives for the great transformation (2022) or Democratising Democracy: No Transformation without Democratisation (2021).
After studying geography, Islamic studies and water management, Paulina and others founded the Kleiner Fünf initiative, which supports people in taking action against right-wing populism with the help of “radical politeness”. In 2020, Capital magazine listed Paulina as TOP40under40 in the “Society and Science” category. As a commentator on political events, she can often be heard on Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s lunchtime programme and regularly on Radio3’s “Die Frage des Tages”. In the winter semester 22/23, Paulina taught as a guest lecturer at the University of the Arts. In 2023, she was appointed to the Forum #Zukunftsstrategie at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.