Oliwia Hälterlein is an author, dramaturg, cultural studies scholar, and moderator. In 2020, she published the essay Das Jungfernhäutchen gibt es nicht (Maro Verlag). She is the co-founder of Freiburg’s action week Aufgeklärt?!, hosts the Freiburg reading series CLITERATUR, and works in theatre with the Luxembourg-based collective Independent little lies. She has also worked at the Schauspielhaus Salzburg and Theater Freiburg.

Born in Poland into a farming family, Oliwia Hälterlein is the first in her family to attend university, having accessed higher education through a non-traditional educational path. She studied Slavic Studies (BA) as well as Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Theatre Studies (MA) in Salzburg, Kraków, and Berlin. In July 2024, she completed the Master’s programme in Literary Writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and, as part of the novel workshop, worked on her debut novel about Poland, daughterhood, bilingualism, and migration. Her debut novel will be published in spring 2026 by C.H.Beck.

She initiated the participatory literary research project CÓRKOWOŚĆ and has been offering the Wort/Laut writing and reading studio as well as DIY Riot Grrrl-style zine workshops since 2022. In December 2025, the premiere of her live audio play Die Stimmen der Töchter will take place at ArTik in Freiburg.