Name and surname: Alena Jakubcová
Degree: PhDr., Ph.D.
Department: Czech Theatre Studies Department
Email: alena.jakubcova@idu.cz
Telephone: +420 224 809 113/117, +420 732 571 743
Alena Jakubcová is a theatre historian specializing in 18th-century theatre and music. Since 1996 she worked as a bibliographer in the ATI Department of Periodicals, since 1997 she has been a researcher at the Czech Theatre Studies Department.
Education
1993–1999 Ph.D., Ph.D. studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Doctoral Thesis Václav Praupner’s melodrama “Circe” (1789) in the Context of Contemporary Repertoire
1984 PhDr., Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
1975–1980 Diploma, Conservatory in Pilsen, major: piano
Professional résumé
2018–present, research and development worker at the Czech Theatre Studies Department, ATI
2010–2018 head of the Czech Theatre Studies Department, ATI
1997–present, researcher at the Czech Theatre Studies Department, ATI
since 1996 bibliographer at the Department of Periodicals, ATI
1986–1996 assistant (since 1993 research assistant), Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (research of 17th and 18th music and theatre)
1984–1986 journalist, Czech Radio Prague (Department of Symphonic, Vocal and Chamber Music)
Teaching activities
2012–2014 Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno
2014–2015 Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Specialization and research
Publications in Czech and German – essays, entries in encyclopedias, papers at Czech and international conferences; research in theatre history
Conferences
Papers at international conferences in the Czech Republic and abroad.:
2014– II. Internationales Joseph Woelfl-Symposium, Salzburg: "Hierzu werden die besten und neuesten Stücke und Opern gewählt..." Strategien des Kampfes um das Publikum in Prag am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts
2006– Klangräume der Mozartzeit – Zur Physiognomie der europäischen Theater- und Konzertszene im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert, Augsburg (Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater Thurnau, Universität Bayreuth): Brunians Glück und Ende. Bühnenpraxis der Aufklärungszeit in Prag der 1770er Jahre
2003– International Commission into European Food History (ICREFH) – The Diffusion of Food Culture, Prague: Food and Dramatics. Multiplication of the Scenes of Life and Mediation of Food Culture through the Theatre towards the End of the 18th Century
2002– Mozart in Mannheim, Mannheim: Die vergessenen Begegnungen. Miszellen zur zeitgenössischen Rezeption von Mozarts Bühnenwerken
1995– East West Seminar on the Eighteenth-Century Studies, Münster: The Musician and Intellectual Wenzel Praupner and his Contemporaries in Prague in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Research granty
Deceit of Allamoda – Prague Theatre Event of 1660 and its European Context; standard project of the Czech Science Foundation; registration number 19-04939S; beginning 1 January 2019, research duration 3 years
A Route towards Theatre. The development of methodology and specific tools for the preservation, appropriation, and dissemination of historical theatre signboards with particular regard to collections of the National Museum in Prague and Moravian Museum in Brno; research grant supported from the Program for the Support of Applied Research and Development of National and Cultural Identity (NAKI II), Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic; participants PhDr. Alena Jakubcová, Ph.D., PhDr. (ATI), Mgr. Jaroslav Blecha, (Department of Theatre History, Moravian Museum in Brno), Mgr. Markéta Trávníčková (National Museum); identification code of the project: DG16P02B008; beginning 1 January 2016, research duration 5 years
Theatre Activities of Václav Mihule in his European Points of Work (1781-1807); standard project of the Czech Science Foundation; registration number GA408/09/0882; beginning 1 January 2009, research duration 3 years
Current memberships and other engagements
member of the Advisory Board at the Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Experience with project assessment
Opponent’s reviews for students’ papers, reviews for publishing houses