Marina Watteck was born in 1961 in Salzburg, Austria.

After finishing school, she started working as a bookseller in her native city of Salzburg.

In 1986 she moved to Vienna and worked as an assistant in a record company. During this time, she already started working as a freelance writer for several magazines and newspapers.
Such as the German magazine "der stern", "Wienerin", "Diva", "Madame" and the Viennese "City-Magazin."

In 1999 she started working for the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company) in Lower Austria. She moved from marketing assistant, to the internet and from there to radio reporter and presenter. As commentator she was mainly working on Royal occasions such as weddings or jubilees.

Im Jahre 2019 verabschiedete sich Marina C. Watteck vom ORF und ging in den Ruhestand, der ihr nun vermehrt die Möglichkeit bietet, als Buchautorin und Moderatorin tätig zu sein.