Lina Morawetz
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I explore narration as a voice of listening. For my current project I am re-narrating a situated microhistorical disappearance from within a context of legalized dehumanization. I am interested in the narrative gestalts through which the unknown, unresolved, and unsaid might re-appear. I am not reconstructing the past, I am curious how the dead flash by in the present. The relationship that form between disappearance and return (in this particular order).
Writings have been published by Sonderzahl and Mandelbaum publishers, in literature magazines, anthologies, and books by artists.
Selected documentary fictions currently serve as teaching material at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies, and Institute of Conservation – Restoration. I teach writing since 2019, translate▸, hold workshops, and collaborate with institutions and artists.
Do get in touch for upcoming writing workshops (narrating documentary fiction, and artwriting)!
Born in Salzburg-Lehen, Austria, into a Viennese family, I currently live and write in Vienna and at the right bank of the Morava river. Since 1999 I have been engaged in organic farming in Italy. (Family) research travels have taken me to Mexico, Russia, and beyond. I studied Visual Cultures and Creative Writing at art universities in the UK (Goldsmiths College, London), Germany (Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig), Italy (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen), and Austria (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna). I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in Linz. 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. My writing 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.