Ulla Kallenbach
I am associate professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. I have been postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark with the project 'Imagining Imagination in Philosophy and Drama 1960-' and was awarded the PhD degree in 2014 for my thesis 'The Theatre of Imagining: Imagination in the Mind - Imagination on the stage'.
My interest in imagination is twofold: On the one hand, to examine the cultural history of imagination in a European context; on the other hand, to analyse the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text as potential performance with the audience as active co-players.
I have been working with playwrights such as Shakespeare, Ibsen, Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter, Crouch and others.
Key Academic interests:
▪ The cultural history of imagination in philosophy and drama.
▪ Dramaturgy informed by perspectives from philosophy and the history of ideas.
▪ Space, visuality and physicalization in relation to dramaturgical analysis.
▪ History of theatre and drama, focusing on the relevance of including the historical and scenic context in the analysis of drama.
▪ The development of new dramaturgical approaches allowing for the studies of imagination and the materiality of the scenic context.
Address: https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Ulla.Kallenbach
My interest in imagination is twofold: On the one hand, to examine the cultural history of imagination in a European context; on the other hand, to analyse the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text as potential performance with the audience as active co-players.
I have been working with playwrights such as Shakespeare, Ibsen, Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter, Crouch and others.
Key Academic interests:
▪ The cultural history of imagination in philosophy and drama.
▪ Dramaturgy informed by perspectives from philosophy and the history of ideas.
▪ Space, visuality and physicalization in relation to dramaturgical analysis.
▪ History of theatre and drama, focusing on the relevance of including the historical and scenic context in the analysis of drama.
▪ The development of new dramaturgical approaches allowing for the studies of imagination and the materiality of the scenic context.
Address: https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Ulla.Kallenbach
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination? In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth case studies: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1606); Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879); and Eugène Ionesco’s The Killer (1957).
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stage analyzes the theatre as a unique platform for aesthetic examinations of contemporary, cultural and political issues.
page focuses on the drama text in a scenic, performative context, and on innovative dramaturgical strategies.
play studies how theatricality comes into play in our everyday life in a broad popular and ritual context.
Contributors: Per Brask, Dario Fo, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Pil Hansen, Sven Åke Heed, Ulla Kallenbach, Sofie Kluge, Annelis Kuhlmann, Kela Kvam, Anna Lawaetz, Bent Flemming Nielsen, Franco Perrelli, Magnus Tessing Schneider, Antonio Scuderi.
stage/page/play is published as a festschrift to dramaturge and theatre scholar dr.phil. Bent Holm, former associate professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Copenhagen, in celebration of his 70th birthday.
Det historiske blik undersøger spændet mellem genskabelse af fortiden, ”som den var,” og aktualisering af historien i kulturelle og politiske sammenhænge. Forfatterne beskriver, hvordan det historiske perspektiv kan bidrage til forståelsen af aktuelle konflikter og trends. Samtidig stiller de skarpt på det tilsyneladende modsætningsforhold mellem den historiske forsknings retrospektive blik på den moderne verden og den aktuelle fordring om at løse samfundsproblemer her og nu.
Det historiske blik diskuterer historiebrug og historisk forskning på tværs af traditionelle fagskel. Bogen samler forskere fra fagfelter som antropologi, kunsthistorie, lingvistik, historie, jura, teologi og litteratur. Tilsammen giver de et bud på den historiske forsknings rolle og status – nu og i fremtiden.
ISBN 978 87 7219 052 5. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2021. 374 sider.
Papers by Ulla Kallenbach
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination? In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth case studies: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1606); Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879); and Eugène Ionesco’s The Killer (1957).
stage analyzes the theatre as a unique platform for aesthetic examinations of contemporary, cultural and political issues.
page focuses on the drama text in a scenic, performative context, and on innovative dramaturgical strategies.
play studies how theatricality comes into play in our everyday life in a broad popular and ritual context.
Contributors: Per Brask, Dario Fo, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Pil Hansen, Sven Åke Heed, Ulla Kallenbach, Sofie Kluge, Annelis Kuhlmann, Kela Kvam, Anna Lawaetz, Bent Flemming Nielsen, Franco Perrelli, Magnus Tessing Schneider, Antonio Scuderi.
stage/page/play is published as a festschrift to dramaturge and theatre scholar dr.phil. Bent Holm, former associate professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Copenhagen, in celebration of his 70th birthday.
Det historiske blik undersøger spændet mellem genskabelse af fortiden, ”som den var,” og aktualisering af historien i kulturelle og politiske sammenhænge. Forfatterne beskriver, hvordan det historiske perspektiv kan bidrage til forståelsen af aktuelle konflikter og trends. Samtidig stiller de skarpt på det tilsyneladende modsætningsforhold mellem den historiske forsknings retrospektive blik på den moderne verden og den aktuelle fordring om at løse samfundsproblemer her og nu.
Det historiske blik diskuterer historiebrug og historisk forskning på tværs af traditionelle fagskel. Bogen samler forskere fra fagfelter som antropologi, kunsthistorie, lingvistik, historie, jura, teologi og litteratur. Tilsammen giver de et bud på den historiske forsknings rolle og status – nu og i fremtiden.
ISBN 978 87 7219 052 5. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2021. 374 sider.