Andrea Roedig is a freelance journalist in Vienna. She obtained her doctorate degree in philosophy and was research assistant and Freie Universität Berlin. In 2001 until 2006 she managed the arts section of the weekly journal Freitag. Since 2007 she lives and works in Vienna and publishes cultural essays, reportages of daily life and scientific articles for serveral German, Austrian and Swiss media (NZZ, Woz, Standard, Freitag, Psychologie Heute, Radio Ö1; Deutschlandfunk, etc.). She is co-publisher of the literature and essay magazine Wespennest. Her last book publications are „Über alles, was hakt. Obsessionen des Alltags“, Klever-Verlag 2013; „Bestandsaufnahme Kopfarbeit“ (together with Sandra Lehmann), Klever-Verlag 2015.

During her stay at the Humanities and Social Change Center she wrote an essay on “Dünnes Eis? Ach was! Vier Thesen in Verteidigung des Puritanismus” which was published at INDES – Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft.