Carl Weber is a professor of directing and dramaturgy at Stanford University. He was a director for BrechtÂ's Berliner Ensemble and later directed numerous plays in Europe and the United States. Norm Roessler is editor of Communications, the performance journal of the International Brecht Society, and is a lecturer at Temple University in Philadelphia. John Willett (1917–2002) translated several works by Brecht into English. Ralph Manheim (1907–1992) translated works by Brecht, Hermann Hesse, Günter Grass, and many others.
