Lina
Leonore Morawetz is a writer based in Vienna and on the right bank of the Morava River. She also teaches and takes on comissions.
I offer individual writing tutorials, lectures and workshops.
Contact me via email; lina.morawetz@gmail.com
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Member of the Austrian Writers’ Association (IG Autorinnnen Autoren) and the Austrian Forum for Literary Translation (Forum Literaturübersetzen Österreich).
After graduating high school at 17, she left Austria for Rome, where she volunteered with an environmental association and a self-organized community center. She holds degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London (Aural and Visual Cultures), the German Institute for Literature at Leipzig University, and the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy. Since 2019, she has been a lecturer in creative writing (in both German and English) at art universities in Germany and Austria.
She has been involved in organic farming since 1999, and (family) research travels have taken her to Mexico, Russia and beyond. A recurring motive in her work is disappearance, and the gestalt through which the unknown, unresolved and unsaid might re-appear.
Member of the Austrian Writers’ Association (IG Autorinnnen Autoren) and the Austrian Forum for Literary Translation (Forum Literaturübersetzen Österreich).
Short prose and documentary fiction have appeared with Sonderzahl and (upcoming) Mandelbaum publishers, as well as in literary magazines such as Mahkzin (Lebanon), Das Narr (Switzerland), SALZ, and Podium (Austria). Essays and other contributions have been published in artist books in Germany, Austria, and Canada, as well as in art magazines including Camera Austria International. Her short prose piece Motten (Moths) recieved third price in the Edit Essay Award (2013). Her writing has been supported by BMKÖS and Land Salzburg (AT), the Austrian Society for Literature, the Austrian Cultural Forum Mexico, and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (DE), among others. She was writer-in-residence at Villa Empain (Brussels), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna) and in Paliano (Italy).
Born in Salzburg-Lehen (Austria) in 1981, she lives and works in Vienna.
She worked for Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017 – 2019), and served as a speechwriter for a German state minister in 2016. Between 2007 and 2014 she was employed organizing contemporary art exhibitions, symposiums, and residencies in Vienna, while also working as a freelance curator.
‘Planetary Garden’ is a term coined by the gardener Gilles Clément.
(c) Lina Leonore Morawetz, BA BA MA 2025