Putting Things Straight

Putting Things Straight (German title: Ich räume auf) is a 1979 film directed and written by Georg Brintrup. It was shot in 16 mm film and was the director's first television release. The script is based on a polemic printed in 1925 ("Ich räume auf - Meine Anklage gegen meine Verleger")[1] by the Jewish German poet Else Lasker-Schüler, the principal woman representative of German Expressionism.

Putting Things Straight
Film set in Berlin, October 1979
Directed byGeorg Brintrup
Written byGeorg Brintrup
Produced byHartmut Bitomsky
Christhardt Burgmann
StarringGisela Stein
Hanns Zischler
Ulrich Gregor
Hans Christoph Buch
Harun Farocki
CinematographyAli Reza Movahed
Edited byCarlo Carlotto
Georg Brintrup
Music byArnold Schönberg
Classical Arabic music
Release date
  • 23 December 1979 (1979-12-23) (Germany)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Premise

The film describes a dispute between poet Else Lasker-Schüler and her publishers. The film takes place in Berlin before, during and after World War I. It deals with the rights of the author; quoting from Karl Marx: "a writer is judged as productive, not on the amount of ideas he produces, but on the amount of money his publisher is able to profit from his works."[2]

Cast

Production

The film was first broadcast on 23 December 1979, by Westdeutscher Rundfunk. It was then shown at the 1980 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

References
  1. "Putting Things Straight: My Charges against My Publishers". Original edition, Lago - Verlag, Zürich 1925
  2. Karl Marx: Theorien über den Mehrwert, Hrsg. Karl Kautsky, 1. Bd. Die Anfänge der Theorie vom Mehrwert bis Adam Smith.
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