Wrote the controversial novel Wetlands (2013), becoming a bestseller due to its taboo topics (February 2008).
Her daughter Polly Grace (b. 2002, with Eric Pfeil) is named after the Nirvana song "Polly".
Lost her three brothers in a car accident on the way to her wedding in
England (June 2001).
As her mother has been a radical feminist, she also supports the
women's movement, but considers herself more moderate.
Her mother Liz, an artist, has been married four times and has six children; her father works as an engineer. In 2001 three of Roche's brothers died in a car crash on their way to her wedding in England. An almost identical tragedy unfolds in Schoßgebete (2014).
Number 2 in 'Neon' Magazine's list of 100 most important young Germans.
(Issue 1, September 2003)
In a comedy program with Christoph Maria Herbst, they recited a dissertation about
"penis injuries caused by vacuum cleaners" on stage (2005).
Fan of German soccer club Schalke 04.
As the German TV networks hadn't been interested in her new project
"Wahrheit oder Pflicht" (Truth or Dare), she released a pilot episode
on youtube. The video caused a sensation because several German
celebrities such as Roger Willemsen, Kim Fisher, Ferris MC and Mieze of MiA.
talked very frankly about their sex lives (April 2007).