Anja Troelenberg is a writer from Germany, born in 1993. She has been working in the Balkans since 2017, first for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Sarajevo and from 2019 in Tirana. Since 2022, she has been reporting as a freelance writer from her adopted country Albania and the broader Southeast European region. Her work focuses on environmental and social issues and she writes for public broadcasters such as ARTE, Deutschlandfunk and MDR.