Marlene Peterlechner, born 1991 in Linz, studied musicology at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna until 2019 (Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts). From 2017 to 2023 she worked as a student assistant and later as a research assistant in projects at the Department of Musicology in the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the Austrian Academy of Sciences: until 2019 in the FWF-research project “’Die Wien-Film’: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Film Studio 1938–1945”; 2018–2019 research assistant in the long-term project of the Johann Joseph Fux Edition; concurrently in the projects “Rethinking the Myths of Beethoven” and “BE2020”; 2019–2022 research assistant at the Vienna office of the New Schubert Edition for the database “Schubert digital”. Most recently, she worked there from 2021 to 2023 on the research project DRACmarKS (Digitization, Recognition and Automated Clustering of Watermarks in the Music Manuscripts of Franz Schubert), funded by Heritage Science Austria.
Since October 2023, she receives a Ph.D. grant from the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz at the New Schubert Edition in Tübingen. Her dissertation is on Franz Schubert’s writing processes, and as part of this work she will be the editor of the Volume VIII/1: “Arrangements of Works by Other Composers” for the New Schubert Edition.
