Speaker: Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer (Free University of Berlin)
Abstract:
Nach formalistischen und strukturalistischen Vorarbeiten werden Dramentexte spätestens seit den 1980er-Jahren mit Computern erforscht. Der Vortrag lässt 40 Jahre digitale Dramenforschung Revue passieren, von den ersten Experimenten mit imperativen Programmiersprachen bis hin zu ausgewachsenen Infrastrukturen in den digitalen Ökosystemen der Gegenwart.
Short bio:
Frank Fischer studied german studies and computer science at Leipzig University and received his PhD from Friedrich Schiller University of Jena with a thesis on Revenge Plays in the Age of Enlightenment. Since 2021, he has served as a Professor of Digital Humanities at FU Berlin and at the EXC 2020 Temporal Communities. From 2017 to 2021, he held the position of director of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, DARIAH-EU. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of the Drama Corpora Project, or "DraCor" for short, a platform for the research on european drama since antiquity.