Roellig was born on 14 December 1878 in
Schwiebus,
Prussia,
Germany. Her parents were Anna and Otto Roehlig, they were in the restaurant and hotel business. And by 1930, a second edition of the city guide was published. Roellig wrote in 1930 an article in sexual education book,
Das lasterhafte Weib. After the
Machtergreifung (the Nazi seizure of control 1931–1933) of
Nazism, the
LGBT culture in Berlin was under pressure. Roellig who supported Nazism in 1930s wrote in 1937 her last book
Soldaten, Tod und Tänzerin with antisemitic content. In 1943, her home in the Schöneberg quarter of Berlin was destroyed by an airstrike. Roellig traveled to her house in
Silesia. After
World War II, Roellig left Silesia and went with her friend Erika to her sister Käthe. She never wrote again after the war. Roellig died on 31 July 1969, at the age of 90 in the Schöneberg neighborhood of Berlin. ==Works by Roellig==