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.

Vitenskapelig foredrag

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

Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

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

Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

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

Faglig foredrag

• Kallenbach, Ulla; Lawaetz, Anna (2023). Dramatikeren Svend Borberg. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

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

Vitenskapelig monografi

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

Programdeltagelse

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

Intervju

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

Faglig kapittel

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

Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

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

Forord

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

Leksikonartikkel

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

Leder

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

Populærvitenskapelig artikkel

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

Anmeldelse

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

Doktorgradsavhandling

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

Innledning i musikal og teaterprogram

• Kallenbach, Ulla (2008). Hvem er Lorca?. (ekstern lenke)
• Kallenbach, Ulla (2008). ’Hvem er Lorca?’, ’Tidsliste’, ’Historien bag Blodbryllup’, ’Det sanselige og det surreelle’, ’La Baracca’. (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.