Female authors from the Varnhagen Collection such as Charlotte von Ahlefeldt, Helmina von Chezy, Amalie von Imhoff, Amalie Schoppe, Fanny Tarnow, Karoline von Woltmann, Caroline de la Motte Fouque, Amalie von Voigt, and others distinguished themselves in the literary field by their broad and varied impact - being writers, translators, journalists, educators and functioning as mediators between different cultures and literatures. The archived traces of these activities are intertwined and extended in the collection by traces of archiving activities: notes, dossiers, annotations. These constellations can be made accessible and interconnected through digital editions, whereby they in turn take on a discourse-shaping function. This as well as the diversity of collection assemblages is elaborated in the broad range of contributions of the volume.