Ulla Kallenbach is Professor in Theatre Studies at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, heading the Theatre History and Dramaturgy Research Group.

Kallenbach 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 an 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-. 

I teach and supervise students from BA to PhD level in a broad range of topics, mainly related to dramaturgy, theatre history and historiography.

Konferanseforedrag

• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). What Underlies the Danish-British Connection? UK-DK cultural exchange in the modern world – a return ticket. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2024). Dual gazes: Experiencing the Comédie-Française through Danish Eyes 1788-1838. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2021). Artistic exchanges at the Royal Danish Theatre. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Negotiating Acting Conventions in 19th Century Denmark: Johanne Luise Heiberg. Between Idealism and Realism. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Psykologisk realisme på scenen. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Panel discussion among researchers in theatre archives. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Traces of Italy in the Royal Danish Theatre (‘s Archive). (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2024). Analogue/Digital theatre histories. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (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. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Presentation of the ArtEx Database. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Hvad er dansk teater?. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Forskerens bruk av digitale arkiv: digitale udfordringer i teaterforskningen. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Holberg og digital humaniora. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2013). The Transformation of Imagination. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2018). Imagination and Dramaturgy. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). At læse Strindberg med AntConc. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Databases, Mappings, Image Analyses: Digital humanities and the Royal Danish Theatre. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Digital challenges and possibilities in theatre research. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Lawaetz Anna (2024). ‘Svend Borbergs skuespil Baaden (1943): Litterær kollaboration eller refleksion af den danske krigserfaring? Konstruktionen af et eftermæle’. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2023). Levels of presence in the drama text: Between close and distant reading. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Edward Gordon Craig’s pioneering Pretenders in Copenhagen. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Holbergs komedier i digital dramaanalyse. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Annelis Kuhlmann (2017). Re-thinking Dramaturgy and Drama Analysis. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). Hvad er fantasi – og kreativitet?. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2024). Holberg og digital dramaanalyse. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). Tracing the Concept of Imagination. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Annelis Kuhlmann; Anna Lawaetz (2023). New approaches to analysing drama with digital tools. Demonstration and discussion. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Lawaetz Anna; Annelis Kuhlmann (2024). ’Digital dramaturgisk analyse af Holbergs komedier’. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Illusion, ideality and the “theatrical mind” of Johanne Luise Heiberg – between the real and the imaginary in the 19th century. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2016). Conflux and Imagination: Perspectives from Philosophy and Drama. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2016). The staging of space in Hamlet: between the real and the imaginary. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2018). Book presentation, ‘The Theatre of Imagining’. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2010). Fiction on the Brink of Reality/Reality on the Brink of Fiction. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2011). Imagination and Spectatorship. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2014). Layers of Imagination: Imagination in the mind and on the stage. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2010). Imagining Absence. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). Fantasiens kulturhistorie. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2013). Performance in the Text. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2010). Værk/Fantasi/Virkelighed. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Annelis Kuhlmann; Anna Lawaetz (2022). How to perceive perception (and make the invisible visible) in digital drama analysis and what to do when you can’t?. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz; Annelis Kuhlmann (2022). Farvestabilitet på tværs i dataanalyser. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House – between idealism and realism. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2019). The Hybridity of Imagination and Spectatorship. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). The Ethics of Spectating and Imagining. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2018). Fantasiens historie og teatret. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2019). Fantasiens historie og dens betydning for forståelsen af kreativitet, kunstneriske skabelsesprocesser og tilskuerpositioner. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Performing Nations as “imaginaries”: Mythologizing Italy on the Danish National Stage. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Transnational traces in the material and digital archive. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Artistic Exchanges: Between National and Transnational Dramaturgies. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Tim Crouch (2023). 'See with your ears': a conversation on dramaturgy and imagination. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Transgressing Borders: Practices of Mobility and Cultural Exchange at The Royal Danish Theatre. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2024). Svend Borberg. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Artistic Exchanges: The Royal Danish Theatre and Europe. Transnational, transinstitutional and transdisciplinary perspectives. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Travelling through Europe 1788 – A digital mapping of mobility. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Dramaturgy and Imagination. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2016). Historical mimesis in-between the real and the imaginary. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). Imagination and spectatorship. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Ethical dramaturgies, dramaturgies of spectatorship. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2009). Macbeth: The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination’, The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2014). Alien worlds within: (re-)imagining reality/history. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2014). Conceptualising Imagination in the Early Modern Period. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2015). Beautiful dream' or 'loathsome delusion': Imagination and ideality. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2021). Artistic Exchanges: On the Nordicness and Europeaness of the First Nordic National Theatre. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). August Strindberg’s Miss Julie – between naturalism and symbolism. (ekstern lenke)

Forelesning

• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2023). Dramatikeren Svend Borberg. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2015). Dansk teater i 1700-1800-tallet. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Opening address. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Henrik Ibsens Et Dukkehjem. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2014). Om absurdisme og fantasi. Harold Pinters Old Times. (ekstern lenke)

Deltakelse i radio eller TV

• Ulla Kallenbach; Liv Thomsen (2022). Teaterfortællinger 9:20 Realismen og Henrik Ibsen. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Peter Lund Madsen (2013). Hvad er fantasi? Fra eksistentialismen til absurdismen. (ekstern lenke)

Lederartikkel

• Anneli Saro; Ulla Kallenbach (2014). Introduction: Theatre and Technology. (ekstern lenke)
• Anneli Saro; Ulla Kallenbach (2015). Introduction: Mapping Theatre. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2018). Preface. (ekstern lenke)

Tidsskriftomtale

• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). "I am in blood step’d in so far…” Macbeth, Teatersalen Odeon, Odense Teater. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). Min arm - min forestilling: Gæstespil af Team Teatret på Edison. (ekstern lenke)

Antologi

• Bent Holm; Ulla Kallenbach (2016). Djævelens billede - maskens magt - fra karneval til Dario Fo. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Sofie Kluge (2021). Det historiske blik. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2016). stage / page / play – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theatre and Theatricality. (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). Tilfældighedernes spil. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2016). Kongen og Narren i King Lear. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). Forestillinger om fantasi. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2014). Meningsløs vold?. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2016). Dømt til undergang: om den tragiske karakter. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2014). Fantasi i frit spil. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2015). Historien om historien på teatret. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2017). Hvem er Hamlet. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig bokkapittel

• Ulla Kallenbach; Knut Ove Arntzen (2024). Theatre Censorship in Denmark and Norway. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2014). Imagining Absence: Performance in the Text. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2012). Macbeth - The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2021). Demaskeringen af idealismen – om historicitet og dramaturgi i Et Dukkehjem. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2016). Fantasiens teaterhistorie. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2016). Imagination at play. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2016). Introduction. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig monografi

• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). En verden af forestillinger. Skuespil & illusion. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2018). The Theatre of Imagining: A Cultural History of Imagination in the Mind and on the Stage. (ekstern lenke)

Leksikonartikkel

• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Simultanscene. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Læsedrama. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Dramaturgi. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Freytags pyramide. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Absurd drama. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Versdrama. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). Monolog (drama). (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Ulla Kallenbach (2022). Harold Pinter's Old Times and the play of indistinction. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2010). Værk/fantasi/virkelighed: Salò og det interaktive teater. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2023). Eksklusionen: Danske Dramatikeres Forbunds opgør med Svend Borberg efter besættelsen. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2014). The Disenchantment of the Wonderful - A Doll’s House and the Idealist Imagination. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2018). “Beautiful Dream” or “Loathsome Delusion”: Imagination and Ideality in Nineteenth-Century Denmark. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2020). The ethics of imagining and the dramaturgy of spectatorship. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach (2018). Feigning History: the early modern imagination and the theatre. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Lawaetz Anna (2022). Svend Borberg: Punktummet, der ikke blev sat. Uopdagede værker fra en dramatiker med europæisk udsyn. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2023). Levels of presence in the drama text: Between close and distant reading. (ekstern lenke)
• Anna Lawaetz; Ulla Kallenbach (2023). Svend Borberg: Mellemkrigstidens fortrængte dramatiker. (ekstern lenke)
• Ulla Kallenbach; Annelis Kuhlmann (2019). Towards a Spectatorial Approach to Drama Analysis. (ekstern lenke)

Innledning

• Ulla Kallenbach; Sofie Kluge; Rasmus Vangshardt (2021). Forord. (ekstern lenke)

Medieintervju

• Ulla Kallenbach; Anna Lawaetz (2022). Kvinders rolle i dansk dramatik, Kvindelige dramatikere igennem 300 år. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Ulla Kallenbach; Bent Holm; Frederik Tygstrup (2014). The Theatre of Imagining: Imagination in the mind – imagination on the stage. (ekstern lenke)

Kapittel i fagbok

• Ulla Kallenbach (2021). Fantasiens flow og kreativitetens kaos: om styring og ustyrlighed i en teaterproces. (ekstern lenke)

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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.