Laura Bradley

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Laura is happy to supervise projects on twentieth- and twenty-first century German theatre, Brecht, GDR literature and culture, and censorship. Prospective students are very welcome to approach her with informal enquiries.
Supervisors at Edinburgh often work as a team, and Laura has experience of co-supervising and examining MScR and PhD projects in English Literature and Russian, as well as having supervised several PhD students in German to completion.

16 Article
11 Book/Film/Article review
8 Paper
5 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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2023
Watching spectatorship and judgment: Trial scenes in Brecht's Epic Theater
Bradley, L., 7 Jul 2023, In: Colloquia Germanica. 55, 1-2, p. 73-88
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Watching spectatorship and judgment: Trial scenes in Brecht's epic theatre
Bradley, L., 1 Jul 2023, In: Colloquia Germanica. July 2023, 1-2, p. 73-88
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2021
Brecht and political theater
Bradley, L., 10 Jun 2021, Bertolt Brecht in Context. Brockmann, S. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 57-64 8 p. (Literature in Context).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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2019
Judging Onstage Spectatorship: Trial Scenes in Brecht's Epic Theatre
Bradley, L., 26 Nov 2019.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Staging Blindness and Insight: Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children" in East Berlin
Bradley, L., 9 Nov 2019.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Building New Audiences at the Berliner Ensemble, 1949-1956
Bradley, L., 23 Jun 2019.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2018
Building new audiences at the Berliner Ensemble, 1949-1956
Bradley, L., 22 May 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Oxford German Studies. 47, 2, p. 211-229 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2016
Training the audience: Brecht and the art of spectatorship
Bradley, L., 1 Oct 2016, In: Modern Language Review. 111, 4, p. 1029-1048 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Training the Audience: Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship
Bradley, L., 27 Jun 2016.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2015
Partners in crime: Police advisers and the dramaturges of Polizeiruf 110 in the GDR
Bradley, L., 25 Sept 2015, In: Modern Language Review. 110, 4, p. 1086-1107 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Review of Stephen Parker, Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
Bradley, L., Apr 2015, In: Modern Language Review. 110, 2, p. 596-7 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Presenting the German Democratic Republic as a therapeutic state: Alcoholism and the law in Polizeiruf 110
Bradley, L., 1 Mar 2015, In: Journal of European Studies. 45, 1, p. 31-48 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2014

Review of Philip Glahn, Bertolt Brecht (London: Reaktion, 2014)
Bradley, L., Dec 2014, In: Journal of European Studies. 44, 4, p. 436-437 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Partners in Crime: Police advisors and the producers of Polizeiruf 110 in the GDR
Bradley, L., 11 Apr 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Shooting down Sputnik: Censorship and creative protest in the German Democratic Republic
Bradley, L., 3 Apr 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Censorship as risk management: Controlling theatre in the GDR
Bradley, L., 29 Mar 2014.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2013

'Not dreaming of Sherlock Holmes': The socialist detective in East German film and television
Bradley, L., 22 Nov 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Challenging censorship through creativity: responses to the ban on Sputnik in the GDR
Bradley, L., 1 Apr 2013, In: Modern Language Review. 108, 2, p. 519-538
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Serial murder in Cold-War Berlin: Leichensache Zernik and the struggle for panoptic control
Bradley, L., 15 Jan 2013, In: German Life and Letters. 66, 1, p. 93-110
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
East German theatre censorship: the role of the audience
Bradley, L., 2013, In: Theatre Journal. 65, 1, p. 39-56
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2011
Remembering Brecht: Anniversaries at the Berliner Ensemble
Bradley, L., 7 Oct 2011, Brecht and the GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity. Bradley, L. & Leeder, K. (eds.). Rochester, NY: Camden House, p. 125-44 20 p. (Edinburgh German Yearbook; vol. 5).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Cooperation and Conflict: GDR Theatre Censorship, 1961-1989
Bradley, L., Oct 2011, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 312 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Review of John and Ann White, Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches’: A German Exile Drama in the Struggle against Fascism (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011)
Bradley, L., Oct 2011, In: Modern Language Review. 106, 4, p. 1193 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Backstage negotiations: Dramatists and theatre reform in the late GDR
Bradley, L., 2011, Writing under Socialism. Jones, S. & Nehru, M. (eds.). Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, p. 113-30 18 p. (Studies in Post-Conflict Cultures; vol. 7).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
From Berlin to Prenzlau: Representations of GDR theater in film and literature
Bradley, L., 2011, The GDR Remembered: Representations of the East German State since 1989. Hodgin, N. & Pearce, C. (eds.). Rochester, NY: Camden House, p. 19-36 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2010
Censorship and opinion formation: Franziska Linkerhand on the GDR stage
Bradley, L., 1 Jul 2010, In: German Life and Letters. 63, 3, p. 234-249 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The politics of cultural impact: "Michael Kohlhaas" at the Deutsches Theater
Bradley, L., 2010, Cultural Impact in the German Context: Studies in Transmission, Reception and Influence. Braun, R. & Marven, L. (eds.). Rochester, NY: Camden House, p. 243-59 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2009

Review of Barbara Konietzny-Russell, Der Medienpraktiker Bertolt Brecht: Interviews, Rundfunkgespräche und Gesprächsprotokolle in der Weimarer Republik (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007)
Bradley, L., Jan 2009, In: Modern Language Review. 104, 1, p. 262 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2008

Review of Barrie Baker, Theatre Censorship in Honecker’s Germany: From Volker Braun to Samuel Beckett (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2007)
Bradley, L., Oct 2008, In: Theatre Journal. 60, 3, p. 496-7 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Review of Uwe Böker, Ines Detmers, and Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos (eds), John Gay’s ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006)
Bradley, L., Apr 2008, In: Modern Language Review. 103, 2, p. 497-8 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Contemporary theatre? Brecht, Peymann & Co. at the Berliner Ensemble
Bradley, L., Feb 2008, In: Contemporary Theatre Review. 18, 1, p. 69-79 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2007

Review of Peter Vodosek (ed.), Bibliotheken, Bücher und andere Medien in der Zeit des Kalten Krieges (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005)
Bradley, L., Mar 2007, In: The Library. 8, 1, p. 90-92 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Review of Dougal McNeill, The Many Lives of Galileo: Brecht, Theatre and Translation’s Political Unconscious (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005)
Bradley, L., 2007, In: International Brecht Yearbook. 32, p. 412-14 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2006

Review of John White, Bertolt Brecht’s Dramatic Theory (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004)
Bradley, L., Sept 2006, In: Journal of European Studies. 36, 3, p. 345-7 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Review of William Niven and James Jordan (eds), Politics and Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003)
Bradley, L., 23 Aug 2006, In: Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 13, 1, p. 105-7 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
A different political forum: East German theatre and the construction of the Berlin Wall
Bradley, L., Jun 2006, In: Journal of European Studies. 36, 2, p. 139-56 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Stealing Büchner’s characters? Leonce und Lena in East Berlin
Bradley, L., Mar 2006, In: Oxford German Studies. 35, 1, p. 66-78 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
GDR theatre censorship: A system in denial
Bradley, L., Jan 2006, In: German Life and Letters. 59, 1, p. 151-62 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Brecht and Political Theatre: 'The Mother' on Stage
Bradley, L., 2006, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 261 p. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2005
'Prager Luft' at the Berliner Ensemble: The censorship of Sieben gegen Theben, 1968-9
Bradley, L., Jan 2005, In: German Life and Letters. 58, 1, p. 41-54 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2003
Collaboration and cultural practice: The 'Brecht' version of Die Mutter
Bradley, L., 2003, In: International Brecht Yearbook. 28, p. 189-208 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2001

Review of Sarah Bryant-Bertail, Space and Time in Epic Theatre: The Brechtian Legacy (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000)
Bradley, L., Apr 2001, In: Arbitrium. 19, 3, p. 355-7 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

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