Lina Morawetz
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I explore narration as a voice of listening. For my current publication project I am re-narrating a situated microhistorical disappearance, and the gestalts through which the unknown, unresolved, and unsaid might reappear. I am not quoting the past but rather exploring how it flashes by in the present relationship between disappearance and return (in this particular order).
Texts have been published by Sonderzahl and Mandelbaum publishers, as well as in literature and art magazines, anthologies and books by artists. I teach writing at art universities since 2019, translate▸, hold workshops, and collaborate.
Born in Salzburg-Lehen, Austria, into a Viennese family, I live and work in Vienna. Studies took me to art universities in the UK (Goldsmiths College, London), Italy (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen), Austria (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna), and Germany (Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig). (Family) research travels have taken me to Mexico, Russia, and beyond. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in Linz. My work has received funding from BMWKMS, Land Salzburg, Kulturförderung des Freistaates Sachsen, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur, and others. In 2013 I was awarded the third Edit Essay prize. I am member of IG Autorinnen Autoren and of the Austrian Society for Literary Translation. From 2008 to 2014, I served as an organiser and curator in the visual arts, and in 2016 I worked as a speechwriter to a German Minister of Justice. I have been involved in organic farming since 1999.