Deadline: 5 January 2026

The Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Hannah Arendt (https://hannah-arendt-edition.net / https://www.arendt-research-center.de) has been in the works at Freie Universität Berlin since 2020. Arendt, who is one of the most important political and philosophical intellectuals of the 20th century, published primarily in English and German; the edition is also multilingual. Parallel to the print version of the edition, a digital platform is being created on which Arendt's works and supplementary material will be made accessible in line with current developments in the field of digital editing.
 
Field of Responsibility:
- Development and maintenance of Jupyter Notebooks for exemplary analysis and visualization of the edition data
- Design and implementation of an Open Educational Resource (OER) for teaching data skills in the context of digital editions
- Support for further scientific use by providing, commenting on, and maintaining digital tools
- Collaboration with other areas of the edition, in particular to coordinate API functionality and documentation standards

Employment Requirements:
Completed academic degree (diploma, master's, magister, Staatsexamen) in digital humanities, computer science, library and information science, editorial studies, and/or philology, in the field of philosophy or another humanities subject.
 
Ideal Qualifications:
- Excellent academic degree
- Knowledge of digital humanities, especially working with digital editions and semantically annotated data
- Experience with Python and Jupyter Notebooks, ideally also with Jupyter Book or comparable publication formats
- Basic knowledge of API development and documentation (e.g., REST, JSON, OpenAPI)
- Ability to prepare technical content for teaching purposes, e.g., for tutorials, teaching resources, or workshops
- Good communication and teamwork skills in interdisciplinary research contexts

Further Information

 Applications should be sent electronically by email with relevant documents, quoting the reference number, in PDF format (preferably as a single document) to Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer: fr.fischer@fu-berlin.de or by post to

Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
Institut für Philosophie
Arbeitsbereich Digital Humanities im DFG-Projekt "Hannah Arendt. Kritische Gesamtausgabe"
Herrn Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin (Dahlem)
 
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