diff --git a/tei2json/requirements.txt b/tei2json/requirements.txt
index dbb06c7..deda123 100644
--- a/tei2json/requirements.txt
+++ b/tei2json/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ certifi==2019.11.28
 chardet==3.0.4
 Click==7.0
 colorama==0.4.3
-cookiecutter==1.7.2
+cookiecutter==2.1.1
 decorator==4.4.2
 defusedxml==0.6.0
 dnspython==1.16.0