Magdalena Eriksröd-Burger studied Psychology and Slavic studies at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, where she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Slavic Art and Cultural Studies. Until October 2024 she worked in the field of Public Science at the OeAD – Agency for Education and Internationalisation (Vienna). She has been working as a cultural manager and mediator for various institutes (e.g. Austrian Cultural Forum) and is currently based in Pretoria, South Africa.
She deals with artistic-cultural topics in the Habsburg Monarchy and its East Central European successor states in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her focus also includes general matters of pluri-, trans- and interculturality, women's and gender history, as well as consumer and food cultures. She was awarded the Georg Schroubek Young Researcher Award 2020 (LMU Munich) for her master's thesis "Prague Coffee Houses around 1900 as a Sociocultural Phenomenon."
Her PhD project “Cultural Positions and Creative Position-Takings: Women as Agents in Prague's Artistic Field (1918-1938)” has been conducted at the Bamberg Graduate School for Literature, Culture and Media (BaGraLCM) at the University of Bamberg until September 2026. It has been funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation. In September/October 2022 she stayed as Josef Dobrovský Fellow at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. In November 2023 she continued her research as Josef Dobrovský Fellow at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. She is founder of the interdisciplinary forum for young scholars "Gender Dialogues", based at the Center for Gender Studies at Charles University Prague.
She deals with artistic-cultural topics in the Habsburg Monarchy and its East Central European successor states in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her focus also includes general matters of pluri-, trans- and interculturality, women's and gender history, as well as consumer and food cultures. She was awarded the Georg Schroubek Young Researcher Award 2020 (LMU Munich) for her master's thesis "Prague Coffee Houses around 1900 as a Sociocultural Phenomenon."
Her PhD project “Cultural Positions and Creative Position-Takings: Women as Agents in Prague's Artistic Field (1918-1938)” has been conducted at the Bamberg Graduate School for Literature, Culture and Media (BaGraLCM) at the University of Bamberg until September 2026. It has been funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation. In September/October 2022 she stayed as Josef Dobrovský Fellow at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. In November 2023 she continued her research as Josef Dobrovský Fellow at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Science in Prague. She is founder of the interdisciplinary forum for young scholars "Gender Dialogues", based at the Center for Gender Studies at Charles University Prague.
As a psychologist and spouse of an Austrian diplomat, she is involved in the board of the CDA, the Club of partners and families of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, and conducts research within the EUFASA Research Department.