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;is paper outlines Bernhard Zimmermann’s seminal contribution to the study of Greek comedy, a field central to his research since the outset of his career. His work has engaged both the extant and fragmentary texts of Old, Middle, and New Comedy, addressing the critical problems of their manuscript tradition alongside their cultural, ritual, and performative dimensions. He has also examined their poetological and structural features, linguistic and metrical forms, and their reception and legacy. ;rough innovative approaches—subsequently taken up by later generations of scholars—Zimmermann produced original insights that remain essential points of reference in international scholarship.