This chapter uses data from the database Einakter – Database of German-Language One-Act Plays 1740–1850 (https://einakter.dracor.org/) to explore the production and reception of German-language women dramatists around 1800. Key issues addressed 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.