Michael Dahnke

Michael Dahnke has graduated as Ph.D. in German Studies at the University of Göttingen in 2015. The thesis was about a new model for German-language literature prizes. Dahnke has worked since in various areas of the digital humanities. In 2017 and 2018 he developed courses on text digitization for humanities scholars at the University of Würzburg and taught in the winter semester 2017/18 and summer semester 2018. Additionally, Dahnke has conducted OCR workshops at various university libraries. In autumn 2015, he developed a data schema for encoding Uwe Johnson's sound and film recordings in a project lasting several months for the Uwe Johnson-Werkausgabe and subsequently worked on further digital edition projects in Würzburg and Siegen. Currently, Dahnke is involved in the project Corresponding Science—Scientific Field of Three Historical Institutes in Munich, a cooperation of the Collegium Carolinum, the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.