Mader grew up in Durban, South Africa (also place of birth), Istanbul, Turkey, Den Haag, the Netherlands, and Oldenburg, Germany.
[5] As "Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin" (junior faculty) she taught and did research at the Lutheran Seminary Oberursel (2005) and at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, at the chair of Professor Peter Lampe (2006-2019).
[7] As board member and "Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin" (junior faculty) she worked for the Hessian LOEWE project of excellency "Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Contexts" (2020),[8] until she took over an interim professorship at the University of Hamburg (2020/21-2022).
The result is a narrative elaboration of a coherent set of Pauline topics that Paul had treated in argumentative discourses.
Mader's analysis of the Montanist oracles claims, among other results, that to a large extent these were formulated in the course of the reception of biblical texts.