Together with Felix Lempp (University of Bern), Dîlan Canan Çakir and Viktor J.Illmer (Research Area 5: Building Digital Communities) have explored the production and reception of German-language women dramatists around 1800. Key issues addressed in their book chapter "Schreibwirtschaft" include the visibility and canonisation of women dramatists, the role of the one-act play as a genre-specific form, and the challenges of digital humanities research (for example in terms of editorial and metadata quality). By integrating literary and theatre studies perspectives with digital humanities methods, the chapter contributes to broadening the literary canon and to methodological reflection on databases as research tools.

The study uses data from Einakter – Database of German-Language One-Act Plays (1740–1850), edited by Çakir and Frank Fischer and developed within Research Area 5.

  

Dîlan Canan Çakir, Viktor J.Illmer and Felix Lempp: "Schreibwirtschaft. Dramatikerinnen um 1800 in der Digitalen Einakter-Datenbank". In BreiterKanon. Wiederentdecken, Lesen, Editieren und mehr, edited by Marius Reisener and Martina Wernli, 125–50. De Gruyter, 2026.