The memoirs of the countess Schwerin are an important source for the history of culture and gender of one of two main European courts in the 18th century: The Viennese court of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Berlin Court of the Prussian King. They were written around 1724 and have survived in two non-identical copies, one found in Aix-en-Provence and one in Vienna. Geographically, the life story narrated in the text stretches from the Dutch countryside to Poland, Warmia, and Silesia, but is centred at the courts of Berlin and Vienna. The text is remarkably dense and multifaceted and allows rare insights into female court networks and “Lebenswelten”. The proposed project aims to combine a scholarly digital edition of this unique source with epistemically motivated research. The Graz project team will provide the necessary Digital Humanities expertise to create a digital scholarly edition which has long term perspectives, uses state-of-the art digital technologies, and provides new interfaces to handle textual variants, organise an extensive scholarly commentary as a flexible database and display social networks extracted from the texts.