David Barnett is Professor of Theatre at the University of York, UK. He has published monographs on Heiner Müller (1998) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2005, paperback 2009), and co-edited a volume and edited a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on contemporary German theatre. His history of the Berliner Ensemble was published in 2015, and he edited the anthology of Bertolt Brecht”s Berliner Ensemble Adaptations (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014).