Ulla Kallenbach
- E-mailulla.kallenbach@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 24 52
- Visitor AddressSydnesplassen 7HF-bygget5007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
Ulla Kallenbach Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, where she is heading the Theatre History and Dramaturgy Research Group.
She is also steering committee member of the Centre for Historical Performance Practice (CHiPP), Aarhus University, Denmark, and President of the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars.
Kallenbach currently heads the international collective research project Artistic Exchanges - The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe (see more under Current Projects).
Ulla Kallenbach holds a MA in Text and Performance (2005, King’s College London/Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) and an MA in Theatre Studies for which she received the University of Copenhagen’s Gold Medal for the dissertation ‘Space and Visuality in the Drama Text’ (2007). In 2014, she completed her Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘The Theatre of Imagining: Imagination in the Mind – Imagination on the Stage’, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018 as the first comprehensive study of the cultural history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama.
Prior to joining the University of Bergen, Kallenbach was a Carlsberg Foundation research fellow in Comparative Literature at the Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark with the project Imagining Imagination in Philosophy and Drama 1960-.
- (2023). Svend Borberg: Mellemkrigstidens fortrængte dramatiker. Nordica. 251-285.
- (2023). Levels of presence in the drama text: Between close and distant reading. Orbis Litterarum. 401-420.
- (2023). Eksklusionen: Danske Dramatikeres Forbunds opgør med Svend Borberg efter besættelsen. TEMP-tidsskrift for historie. 103-125.
- (2022). Svend Borberg: Punktummet, der ikke blev sat. Uopdagede værker fra en dramatiker med europæisk udsyn. Peripeti. 24-39.
- (2022). Harold Pinter's Old Times and the play of indistinction. Orbis Litterarum. 89-104.
- (2020). The ethics of imagining and the dramaturgy of spectatorship. Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance. 41-55.
- (2019). Towards a Spectatorial Approach to Drama Analysis. Nordic Theatre Studies.
- (2018). “Beautiful Dream” or “Loathsome Delusion”: Imagination and Ideality in Nineteenth-Century Denmark. European Romantic Review.
- (2018). Feigning History: the early modern imagination and the theatre. Renæssanceforum. Tidsskrift for renæssanceforskning.
- (2014). The Disenchantment of the Wonderful - A Doll’s House and the Idealist Imagination. Nordic Theatre Studies.
- (2010). Værk/fantasi/virkelighed: Salò og det interaktive teater. Kulturo.
- (2023). Dramatikeren Svend Borberg.
- (2023). Opening address.
- (2022). Henrik Ibsens Et Dukkehjem.
- (2015). Dansk teater i 1700-1800-tallet.
- (2014). Om absurdisme og fantasi. Harold Pinters Old Times.
- (2024). Analogue/Digital theatre histories.
- (2023). Women's theatre archives between materialism and idealism: Johanne Luise Heiberg, star actress and the first female stage director at the Royal Danish Theatre in the Nineteenth Century.
- (2023). What Underlies the Danish-British Connection? UK-DK cultural exchange in the modern world – a return ticket.
- (2023). Transnational traces in the material and digital archive.
- (2023). Traces of Italy in the Royal Danish Theatre (‘s Archive).
- (2023). Performing Nations as “imaginaries”: Mythologizing Italy on the Danish National Stage.
- (2023). Panel discussion among researchers in theatre archives.
- (2023). New approaches to analysing drama with digital tools. Demonstration and discussion.
- (2023). Negotiating Acting Conventions in 19th Century Denmark: Johanne Luise Heiberg. Between Idealism and Realism.
- (2023). Levels of presence in the drama text: Between close and distant reading.
- (2023). Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House – between idealism and realism.
- (2023). Edward Gordon Craig’s pioneering Pretenders in Copenhagen.
- (2023). Databases, Mappings, Image Analyses: Digital humanities and the Royal Danish Theatre.
- (2023). August Strindberg’s Miss Julie – between naturalism and symbolism.
- (2023). At læse Strindberg med AntConc.
- (2023). Artistic Exchanges: The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe. Transnational, transinstitutional and transdisciplinary perspectives.
- (2023). Artistic Exchanges: Between National and Transnational Dramaturgies.
- (2023). 'See with your ears': a conversation on dramaturgy and imagination.
- (2022). Travelling through Europe 1788 – A digital mapping of mobility.
- (2022). Transgressing Borders: Practices of Mobility and Cultural Exchange at The Royal Danish Theatre.
- (2022). Presentation of the ArtEx Database.
- (2022). Illusion, ideality and the “theatrical mind” of Johanne Luise Heiberg – between the real and the imaginary in the 19th century.
- (2022). Hvad er dansk teater?
- (2022). How to perceive perception (and make the invisible visible) in digital drama analysis and what to do when you can’t?
- (2022). Holbergs komedier i digital dramaanalyse.
- (2022). Holberg og digital humaniora.
- (2022). Forskerens bruk av digitale arkiv: digitale udfordringer i teaterforskningen.
- (2022). Farvestabilitet på tværs i dataanalyser.
- (2022). Dramaturgy and Imagination.
- (2022). Digital challenges and possibilities in theatre research.
- (2021). Artistic exchanges at the Royal Danish Theatre.
- (2021). Artistic Exchanges: On the Nordicness and Europeaness of the First Nordic National Theatre.
- (2020). Psykologisk realisme på scenen.
- (2020). Ethical dramaturgies, dramaturgies of spectatorship.
- (2019). The Hybridity of Imagination and Spectatorship.
- (2019). Fantasiens historie og dens betydning for forståelsen af kreativitet, kunstneriske skabelsesprocesser og tilskuerpositioner.
- (2018). Imagination and Dramaturgy.
- (2018). Fantasiens historie og teatret.
- (2018). Book presentation, ‘The Theatre of Imagining’.
- (2017). Tracing the Concept of Imagination.
- (2017). The Ethics of Spectating and Imagining.
- (2017). Re-thinking Dramaturgy and Drama Analysis.
- (2017). Imagination and spectatorship.
- (2017). Hvad er fantasi – og kreativitet?
- (2017). Fantasiens kulturhistorie.
- (2016). The staging of space in Hamlet: between the real and the imaginary.
- (2016). Historical mimesis in-between the real and the imaginary.
- (2016). Conflux and Imagination: Perspectives from Philosophy and Drama.
- (2015). Beautiful dream' or 'loathsome delusion': Imagination and ideality.
- (2014). Layers of Imagination: Imagination in the mind and on the stage.
- (2014). Conceptualising Imagination in the Early Modern Period.
- (2014). Alien worlds within: (re-)imagining reality/history.
- (2013). The Transformation of Imagination.
- (2013). Performance in the Text.
- (2011). Imagination and Spectatorship.
- (2010). Værk/Fantasi/Virkelighed.
- (2010). Imagining Absence.
- (2010). Fiction on the Brink of Reality/Reality on the Brink of Fiction.
- (2009). Macbeth: The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination’, The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises.
- (2018). Preface. Renæssanceforum. Tidsskrift for renæssanceforskning.
- (2015). Introduction: Mapping Theatre. Nordic Theatre Studies. 5-8.
- (2014). Introduction: Theatre and Technology. Nordic Theatre Studies. 7-7.
- (2017). Min arm - min forestilling: Gæstespil af Team Teatret på Edison. Peripeti.
- (2017). "I am in blood step’d in so far…” Macbeth, Teatersalen Odeon, Odense Teater. Peripeti.
- (2021). Det historiske blik. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
- (2016). stage / page / play – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theatre and Theatricality. Multivers.
- (2016). Djævelens billede - maskens magt - fra karneval til Dario Fo. Multivers.
- (2022). En verden af forestillinger. Skuespil & illusion.
- (2018). The Theatre of Imagining: A Cultural History of Imagination in the Mind and on the Stage.
- (2017). Tilfældighedernes spil. Teater 1.
- (2017). Hvem er Hamlet. Teater 1.
- (2017). Forestillinger om fantasi. Carlsbergfondet Årsskrift.
- (2016). Kongen og Narren i King Lear. Teater 1.
- (2016). Dømt til undergang: om den tragiske karakter. Teater 1.
- (2015). Historien om historien på teatret. Teater 1.
- (2014). Meningsløs vold? Teater 1.
- (2014). Fantasi i frit spil. Teater 1.
- (2014). The Theatre of Imagining: Imagination in the mind – imagination on the stage.
- (2022). Kvinders rolle i dansk dramatik, Kvindelige dramatikere igennem 300 år.
- (2022). Teaterfortællinger 9:20 Realismen og Henrik Ibsen.
- (2013). Hvad er fantasi? Fra eksistentialismen til absurdismen.
- (2021). Demaskeringen af idealismen – om historicitet og dramaturgi i Et Dukkehjem.
- (2016). Introduction.
- (2016). Imagination at play.
- (2016). Fantasiens teaterhistorie.
- (2014). Imagining Absence: Performance in the Text.
- (2012). Macbeth - The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination.
- (2020). Versdrama. . In:
- (2020). Litteraturleksikon.
- (2020). Monolog (drama). . In:
- (2020). Litteraturleksikon.
- (2020). Læsedrama. . In:
- (2020). Litteraturleksikon.
- (2020). Freytags pyramide. . In:
- (2020). Litteraturleksikon.
- (2020). Absurd drama. . In:
- (2020). Litteraturleksikon.
- (2021). Forord.
- (2008). ’Hvem er Lorca?’, ’Tidsliste’, ’Historien bag Blodbryllup’, ’Det sanselige og det surreelle’, ’La Baracca’.
- (2008). Hvem er Lorca?
- (2021). Fantasiens flow og kreativitetens kaos: om styring og ustyrlighed i en teaterproces. 221-236. In:
- (2021). Leg & Litteratur. Syddansk Universitetsforlag.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
PI of the international collective research project Artistic Exchanges - The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe. The project explores how the theatre was a “window to the world,” an essential agent for offering the public experiences of foreign cultures and for negotiating cultural identities at a time when international travelling was still rare. Using state of the art digital tools, we are currently developing databases and mappings that will allow us to analyse how artists travelled and how travelling influenced the repertoire and performance practices.
In 2020-21, I have also been participating in the pilot project Danish theater archives in the digital era in research and teaching under DeiC (Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation) and Royal Danish Library’s Cultural Heritage Cluster exploring Ludvig Holberg’s comedies.