Lina Nausedat (born 1996) has accepted the invitation from the Meeting Brno festival to spend a creative residency in Brno. She will appear in a new play by Divadlo Feste, coproduced with the theatre festival Divadelní svět Brno. Lina was born and grew up in Berlin and discovered her passion for theatre at an early age. Aged 21, she decided to study acting at the Berliner Schule für Schauspiel, from which she graduated in 2019. She is now looking forward to gaining new professional experience in Brno.

Ursula Wiegele (born 1963) is the writer in residence at the Meeting Brno festival and will spend several weeks in the city working on her latest book. The novel takes place in the 1940s, partly in Eastern Europe, which the Austrian author also wrote about in her earlier works. Ursula Wiegele was born in Klagenfurt and since 1993 has lived in Graz. After studying philosophy in Austria and Italy, she has worked as an editor, creative writing tutor and teacher of German as a foreign language. In addition to contributions in anthologies and literary magazines, she has written four novels: Cello, stromabwärts (Drava, 2011), Im Glasturm (Müry Salzmann, 2015), Was Augen hat und Ohren (Otto Müller Verlag, 2019) and Arigato (Otto Müller Verlag, 2020).