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The interactive website "Visualizations of Early Female Filmmakers Careers in Germany" allows users to explore data from the German Film Institute and Filmmuseum - DFF on a corpus of women previously described as "unhistorized" by the Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP). The implementation of biographical and filmographic data from the DFF, in part derived from the former f_films project, into visualizations of careers offers new perspectives on the work of women in early film in Germany. One hope behind this project is that the website can be used as a resource in teaching and as a starting point for further questions and research. The individual profiles of the women filmmakers as well as the film titles are linked to the filmportal of the DFF, which we hope will contribute to further in-depth explorations. Due to the complexity of the job titles in various countries and times during history we did not translate them into english as not to distort the underlying data of the DFF.

The interactive website is the result of an applicant-oriented seminar in computer science at Philipps-Universität Marburg, conducted in the winter semester of 2022/23. The project was led by Marlene Leonie Biebricher, staff member of the BMBF research group Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History (DAVIF) at the Institute for Media Studies, and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Thormählen, head of the Graphics and Multimedia Programming Group at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at Philipps-Universität Marburg. This project was inspired by the Women Film Pioneer Explorer, which was also developed in 2021 under the leadership of Thorsten Thormählen and Sarah-Mai Dang, together with IT students (Dickel, Henri; Miskovic, Matija; Noori, Kharazm; Schmidt, Christian; Soltanifard, Atefeh; Dang, Sarah-Mai; Thormählen, Thorsten: "Women Film Pioneers Explorer", 2021, https://www.online.uni-marburg.de/women-film-pioneers-explorer).

Due to the complexity of the job titles in various countries and times during history we did not translate them into English so as not to distort the underlying data of the DFF.