Leadership team:
Olga Grjasnowa, Univ.-Prof. BA
Gerhild Steinbuch, Univ.-Prof. MA
The Institute of Creative Writing
Vienna has been designed to follow the example set by Leipzig, Hildesheim and Biel. Like these models, it is dedicated to
the teaching of literary writing on a university basis. Courses are intended for students wishing to learn a diversity of
literary techniques and cross-border methods for a period of three years at the end of which, a final work will be submitted
for the award of a bachelor degree.
The Institute offers a multifaceted teaching staff, which represents the variety
found in the German language literary scene, and furnishes intensive student support. In addition, leading authors present
their writings in the form of workshop discussions and readings, while in teamwork with the School for Poetry short-term interventions
are possible for extended forms of linguistic expression.
The fact that the Institute of Creative Writing is part
of the University of Applied Arts provides it with additional scope through the opportunities for exchanges with other institutes
and departments such as Graphics, Painting, Media Theory, Fashion, Book Art, Knowledge Transfer and Philosophy, etc. Indeed,
this cross-fertilisation process allows students to test the various effects of their literary output even during their study
years.
In future, it is planned to establish the Institute as a literary centre that will also consider creative
writing teaching methods. An initial step in this direction is formed by the organisation of a symposium to which teaching
staff from all the institutes at German-language universities will be invited.
