Laura Bradley is Personal Chair of German and Theatre at the University of Edinburgh. Her major publications include Brecht and Political Theatre: 'The Mother on Stage (2006), Cooperation and Conflict: GDR Theatre Censorship, 1961-1989 (2010), and Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity (2011, co-edited with Karen Leeder). She is General Editor of German Monitor and a member of the Editorial Board of the Brecht Yearbook, and has worked with theatres and contributed to radio programmes on Brecht both nationally and internationally.