Marlene Brüggen worked at Konzertdirektion Schmid, representing artists such as Leonard Slatkin, Cornelius Meister, and Khatia Buniatishvili. After six years in artist management and completing a Master’s degree in Media and Music, she joined the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Since autumn 2021, she has been Head of Artistic Planning at the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

Her programming is characterized by an inclusive approach, inspired by pop culture and current social themes. She initiated the season motto “No Concert without a Woman Composer!” and later shaped the thematic focuses “Orchestra for Democracy” and “Afrodiaspora – Composing While Black.”