Dr. Sabine Seifert
Areas of Activity and Research
Management of research data: Chronicle, Bibliography, Correspondence Database, Collection of Manuscripts
Digitization projects
Digital archive
Development of research projects
Edition
Qualifications & Career
- Oct. 2023-Feb. 2024 Parental leave replacement for Peer Trilcke’s professorship for 19th century German literature with a focus on Theodor Fontane at the University of Potsdam
- 2022-2023, also a research associate in the academy project Alexander von Humboldt auf Reisen at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (»edition humboldt digital«)
- 2017, PhD in Contemporary German Literature at the »Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin«
- Since 2015, research associate at the Theodor Fontane Archive at the University of Potsdam
- 2010-2014 Research associate in the junior research group Berliner Intellektuelle 1800–1830 at the »Institut für Deutsche Literatur« at the »Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin«
- Studied Contemporary German Literature and English Literature at the »Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin« and the »Freie Universität Berlin«
- Trained as a library assistant at the »Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin«
Work & Research Focus
- History of philology, science and universities in the 19th century
- Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Edition philology, digital edition of manuscripts and correspondence
- Digital Humanities, digital methods in literary studies, TEI
Publications
Sabine Seifert (ed.): Briefwechsel mit Joseph Dalton Hooker, in: Ottmar Ette (ed.): edition humboldt digital. »Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften«, Berlin 2023. URL: http://edition-humboldt.de/X0000016.
Sabine Seifert: Emilie Fontane, Mathilde von Rohr and Hermann Kletke, in: Rolf Parr, Gabriele Radecke, Peer Trilcke, Julia Bertschik (eds.): Theodor Fontane Handbuch. Berlin a.o. 2023, pp. 696–704, 728–732, 789–795.
Sabine Seifert: Das philologische Seminar der Berliner Universität: Forschungsdaten zur Entstehung der modernen Forschungsuniversität und der höheren Lehrerbildung, in: bildungsgeschichte.de, Berlin 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.25523/32552.14.
Sabine Seifert: Daten zum philologischen Seminar der Berliner Universität (Version 1.1) [Data set]. 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6186813.
- Peer Trilcke, Anna Busch, Sabine Seifert: Vom Ausbau des Digitalen Archivs. Neue digitale Dienste des Theodor-Fontane-Archivs. Chronik und Briefdatenbank, in: Fontane Blätter 111 (2021), pp. 173–183.
- Sabine Seifert: Die Ursprünge der Berliner Forschungsuniversität. August Boeckhs philologisches Seminar in Konzeption und Praxis (1812–1826). Berlin 2021. [Publisher’s page]. Reviews at literaturkritik.de, in the »Zeitschrift für Germanistik« 32,2 (2022), pp. 434-438, in the EWR 21,2 (2022), in the »Geschichte der Philologien« 59/60 (2021), p. 169.
Sabine Seifert: Darwin Correspondence Project [Review of the edition], in: RIDE 12 (2020). URL: https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-12/darwin-correspondence/.
Stefan Dumont, Susanne Haaf, Sabine Seifert (eds.): Encoding Correspondence. A Manual for Encoding Letters and Postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf. Berlin 2019. URL: https://encoding-correspondence.bbaw.de/.
Sabine Seifert, Nicolas Schenk: Pre-printed parts: Letterheads and forms. In: Stefan Dumont, Susanne Haaf, Sabine Seifert (eds.): Encoding Correspondence. A Manual for Encoding Letters and Postcards in TEI-XML and DTABf. Berlin 2019. URL: https://encoding-correspondence.bbaw.de/v1/pre-printed-parts.html.
- Marcel Illetschko, Peter Stadler, Sabine Seifert: Towards a Model for Encoding Correspondence in the TEI. Developing and Implementing <correspDesc>. In: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 9 (2016). URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jtei/1433.
- Christiane Hackel, Sabine Seifert (eds.): August Boeckh. Philologie, Hermeneutik und Wissenschaftspolitik. Berlin 2013. URL: https://www.bwv-verlag.de/detailview?no=2839.
- Sabine Seifert: August Boeckh und die Gründung des Berliner philologischen Seminars. Wissenschaftlerausbildung und Beziehungen zum Ministerium. In: Christiane Hackel und Sabine Seifert (eds.): August Boeckh. Philologie, Hermeneutik und Wissenschaftspolitik. Berlin 2013. pp. 159–178.
- Sabine Seifert: Digitale Edition von Briefen August Boeckhs [in progress]. In: Anne Baillot (ed.): Briefe und Texte aus dem intellektuellen Berlin um 1800. Berlin 2013ff. Migrated to DiScholEd – Digitale Editionen historischer Texte. 2021ff. URL: https://discholed.huma-num.fr/exist/apps/discholed/index.html.
- Anna Busch, Sabine Seifert: Digitale Edition von Briefen von Adelbert von Chamisso an Louis de La Foye [in progress]. In: Anne Baillot (ed.): Briefe und Texte aus dem intellektuellen Berlin um 1800. Berlin 2013ff. Migrated to DiScholEd – Digitale Editionen historischer Texte. 2021ff. URL: https://discholed.huma-num.fr/exist/apps/discholed/index.html.
- Anne Baillot, Sabine Seifert: The Project ›Berlin Intellectuals 1800–1830‹ between Research and Teaching. In: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 4 (2013). URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jtei/707.
Papers and Presentations
Paper with Stefan Dumont, Tobias Kraft, Christian Thomas, Jan Wierzoch: Travelling Humboldt–Data on the Move. Conference Annual TEI Conference and Members Meeting, Paderborn University, 06.09.2023.
- Paper with Stefan Dumont, Tobias Kraft, Christian Thomas, Jan Wierzoch: Die offene Edition. Vernetzung, Datenpublikation und Transparenz in der edition humboldt digital. Conference DHd 2023, Trier University and Belval/Luxembourg, 15.03.2023.
- Paper: Die digitalen Dienste des Theodor-Fontane-Archivs, as part of the seminar Digitale Editionstechniken, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 21.01.2022.
- Paper with Anna Busch: Das Fontane-Archiv – digitale Neuausrichtung und HANS-Anwendungsbereiche, as part of the »HANS-Anwendertreffen«, »Universität Hamburg«, 24.09.2019.
- Paper with Stefan Dumont, Susanne Haaf:TEI encoding of correspondence: A community effort. Conference Annual TEI Conference and Members Meeting, University of Graz, 19.09.2019.
- Paper: Das Theodor-Fontane-Archiv und die digitale Edition von Fontanes Korrespondenzen, as part of the seminar Digitale Editionstechniken, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 07.06.2019.
Paper with Anna Busch: Kulturerbe digital am Beispiel des Theodor-Fontane-Archivs. Herausforderungen – Forschungsdatenmanagement – Prototypenstudie, as part of the opening of the Network Digital Humanities, University of Potsdam, 19.10.2018.
Paper: »Ich zweifle nicht, daß aus ihm ein guter Schulmann werden wird«. Die wissenschaftliche Ausbildung von angehenden Lehrern in August Boeckhs Berliner philologischem Seminar, as part of the colloquium for historical educational research, »Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin«, 15.02.2018.
Paper: Digitale Briefeditionen, as part of the seminar Digitale Editionen, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 20.01.2018.
Paper with Hanna Delf von Wolzogen: Die Briefplattform des Theodor-Fontane-Archivs, as part of the »FuD-Nutzertreffen«, Trier University, 15.03.2017.
Paper: Das Briefportal des Theodor-Fontane-Archivs, as part of the seminar Digitale Editionen, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 07.06.2016.
Paper: Die digitale Edition Briefe und Texte aus dem intellektuellen Berlin um 1800, as part of the seminar Analoge und digitale Editionen historischer Quellen, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 09.07.2015.
Paper with Anna Busch: Crosslinking letters. The digital edition »Letters and texts. Intellectual Berlin around 1800«. Conference From Ink and Paper to the Cloud. The European Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt, »Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa/Cortona«, Italien, 09.04.2015.
Paper with Marcel Illetschko, Peter Stadler: Towards a correspondence module in the TEI. Conference Annual TEI Conference and Members Meeting, Northwestern University Evanston/Illinois, 22.10.2014.
Teaching and Workshops (a sample)
- Seminar with Anna Busch, Rainer Falk: Einführung in die digitale (Brief-)Edition am Beispiel der Korrespondenz Theodor Fontanes, University of Potsdam, »Institut für Germanistik«, winter semester 2023/24 (Master’s degree program).
- Workshop with Peter Stadler: Introduction to digital scholarly editions of correspondences, »Le Mans Université«, 13.11.2018.
- Workshop with Stefan Dumont, Susanne Haaf: Herausforderungen der Briefkodierung, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, 29.-30.10.2018.
- Workshop with Anne Baillot, Stefan Dumont, Peter Stadler: Introduction to TEI Encoding of Correspondence Meta Data, as part of the conference TEI as a Global Language. Annual TEI Conference and Members Meeting, University of Tokyo, 09.09.2018.
- Workshops: TEI for Correspondence and Editing TEI correspondence, Correspondence Interchange, Case Study: Digital edition »Letters and Texts. Intellectual Berlin around 1800«, as part of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, 2018, University of Oxford, 06.-07.07.2018.
- Workshops: TEI Metadata and Creating a Better TEI Header, Correspondence Interchange, Case Study: »Letters and Texts. Intellectual Berlin around 1800«, as part of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, 2017, University of Oxford, 04./06.07.2017.
- Workshops with Peter Stadler: TEI for Correspondence and Editing TEI Correspondence, Correspondence Interchange, Letters and Texts. Intellectual Berlin around 1800, as part of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, 2016, University of Oxford, 07.07.2016.
- Workshop with Stefan Dumont, Marcel Illetschko, Peter Stadler: Encoding correspondence meta data with <correspDesc>, as part of the conference Connect, animate, innovate. Annual TEI Conference and Members Meeting, »Université Lumière Lyon 2«, 27.10.2015.
- Seminar with Anna Busch: Von der Handschrift zur digitalen Veröffentlichung II, »Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin«, »Institut für deutsche Literatur«, winter semester 2012/13 (Master's degree program).
- Seminar with Anne Baillot, Anna Busch: Von der Handschrift zur digitalen Veröffentlichung. Edition deutscher und französischer Briefe Adelbert von Chamissos, »Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin«, »Institut für deutsche Literatur«, summer semester 2012 (Master's degree program).
Memberships
TEI Technical Council Member since 2022, TEI SIG Correspondence Co-Convenor since 2013
TEI – Text Encoding Initiative Consortium
DHd – »Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum«, EADH – European Association for Digital Humanities
Scholarships & Awards
- 2018 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity für correspDesc, correspSearch, CMIF, together with Stefan Dumont, Sascha Grabsch, Marcel Illetschko, Jonas Müller-Laackman, Peter Stadler
- 2014 Research grant from the DIPF Library for Research in the History of Education