Lina Morawetz is a writer based in Vienna and on the right bank of the Morava river. Her work has appeared in literary magazines and artists’ books, as well as with Sonderzahl and Mandelbaum publishers. Since 2019, she has been teaching at universities in Germany and Austria. Her documentary fictions are currently used as teaching material at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Art Theory and Cultural Studies; Conservation–Restoration). Lectures and workshops, writing tutorials, translations▸, and collaborations on request.
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I explore narration as a voice of listening. I explore the narrative gestalts through which the unknown, unresolved,  and unsaid might re-appear. My current work re-narrates a microhistorical disappearance situated within the NS context of legalized dehumanization, and post-fascism. I am not reconstructing the past, but curious how the dead flash by in the present. The narration that forms inbetween disappearance and return (in this particular order).

Born in Salzburg-Lehen, Austria, into a Viennese family, I studied Aural andVisual Cultures, and Creative Writing at art universities in the UK (Goldsmiths College, London), and Germany (Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig), and have taught at Universities in Austria and Germany since 2019. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in Linz. I served as a speechwriter to a German Minister of Justice in Dresden, as an organiser in the contemporary arts in Vienna, and have been working as an independent writer since 2017. (Family) research travels have taken me to Mexico, Russia, and beyond. I am member of IG Autorinnen Autoren and of the Austrian Society for Literary Translation. In 2013 I was awarded the third Edit Essay prize. My writing has received funding from BMWKMS, Land Salzburg, Kulturförderung des Freistaates Sachsen, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur, and others.

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