Born in London, Martin Brady studied German and Art History at St Andrews University. After two years at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich on a DAAD scholarship he wrote his PhD thesis at King’s College on the Heinrich Böll adaptations of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. He began teaching at Kings in 1986 and has taught at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. He also works as an artist, filmmaker, and translator (for filmmakers Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, Alexander Kluge and others).