ABSTRACT
Lilla von Bulyovszky, born in 1833 in Klausenburg/Cluj-Napoca, was a famous actress of her time, appreciated for her work, adored for her good looks. After her retirement from stage, she started a second career and translated more than 250 theatre pieces. Both the person looking and the person who is looked at are travelling, and their common movement creates a special space around them. Women in general were not expected to write and publish texts, nor were they expected to travel on their own. In Hungary, similar to German-speaking parts of “Austria” and a range of Central European regions, a “prevailing atmosphere of oppression” accompanied them. Members of performing arts never “fully” belonged to the ideal of a bourgeois society as it was established in the nineteenth century. Men as well as women who acted did not meet the hegemonic gender norms, but acting and performing women fundamentally contradicted middle-class ideals of femininity: Female modesty, domesticity, sedentariness.
