As long as a specific pattern of quotation marks is used consistently this is a trivial task. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily the case: First, there is an astounding number of ways to encode quotation marks and incorrect or inconsistent usage is very common. Mistakes like missing closing quotation marks happen easily and can throw off a parser relying solely on those markers. (Brunner 2015: 180-182) The problem is worse for older texts, where the typographic rules are even less standardized and additional errors can occur in the digitization process. Finally, in literature it is not uncommon that authors deliberately choose not to use any markers for stylistic reasons. Those types of texts are especially common in the Digital Humanities and it is useful to have a tool that is not dependent on the use of quotation marks. In addition to that, the tool presented in this talk is rule-based and thus requires no training material.