Rate My Professor Stefan Hulfeld

Hulfeld's academic interests center on theatre historiography, theatre theory and aesthetics, comedy and humour, acting and gesticulation, commedia dell'arte, grotesqueness in the arts, narrative structures in theatre, film, and media, professional acting companies, and cultural phenomena in European theatre history, such as performances during the 1848 Vienna revolution and spa town theatre seasons. He has directed funded research projects, including "Herausbildung eines deutschen Theaters" from 2015 to 2018 and "Staatsaktionen" from 2010 to 2013. Among his major publications are the monograph Theatergeschichtsschreibung als kulturelle Praxis (Chronos, Zürich, 2007), Zähmung der Masken, Wahrung der Gesichter: Theater und Theatralität in Solothurn 1700-1798 (Chronos, Zürich, 2000), and co-authored Bertolt Brecht und die Schweiz (Chronos, Zürich, 2003). He edited the bilingual edition Scenari più scelti d’istrioni (Vienna University Press, 2014) and co-edited Theaterhistoriographie: Kontinuitäten und Brüche in Diskurs und Praxis (Francke, Tübingen, 2007). Notable contributions include "Modernist Theatre" in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and recent chapters such as "Theaterhistoriografie" in Theater und Tanz: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (Nomos, 2023) and "Angenehme Abwechslung in dem Kranze verschiedenartiger Genüsse": Die Kurtheatersaison des Sommers 1855 in Ischl und Pyrmont" in Die Kurstadt als urbanes Phänomen (Böhlau, 2023).