Heinz-Uwe Haus is an internationally renowned director and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on Bertolt Brecht. Since 1979, he has been Professor of Theatre at the University of Delaware, USA. Educated and trained in Germany at the Film Academy Potsdam-Babelsberg, as well as at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, he began his long artistic and academic career as Director at the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, and as founding member of the East German Directing Institute and Head of its Directing Department. In addition to his work in Germany, he has directed for the National Theatres of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, and worked with companies from Chile, Finland, Italy, South Korea, Canada, and the USA. His literary texts and poetry, as well as his work as painter (partly under his pseudonym Jean Bodin), have only recently been made known to a wider international audience. In 1989/90, Haus was a board member of the East German “Democratic Awakening” party (Demokratischer Aufbruch) and founder and representative of the “Praxis Group” in the USA. In 1992-1993, he worked as Director of the Educational Centre Schloss Wendgraeben of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation.

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe studied English and Philosophy at the Universität Düsseldorf, before obtaining his PhD from the University of London in 1994. From 1994 to 2007, he was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, and, from 2007 to 2017, he served as Professor of Drama at the Lincoln School of Performing Arts of the University of Lincoln, UK. He is currently Artistic Director of piccolo teatro Haventheater Bremerhaven, Germany.