Putting Things Straight

Putting Things Straight
Film set Berlin Oct 1979
Directed by	Georg Brintrup
Written by	Georg Brintrup
Produced by	Hartmut Bitomsky Christhardt Burgmann
Starring	Gisela Stein Hanns Zischler Ulrich Gregor Hans Christoph Buch Harun Farocki
Cinematography	Ali Reza Movahed
Edited by	Carlo Carlotto Georg Brintrup
Music by	Arnold Schönberg Classical Arabic music
Release date	December 23, 1979 (1979-12-23) (Germany)
Running time	60 min
Country	Germany
Language	German

Putting Things Straight (German title: “Ich räume auf”) is a 1979 film directed and written by Georg Brintrup. The director's first TV-release, it was shot in 16 mm film. The filmscript 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.

Premise[]

The film describes a dispute between poetess 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[]

• Gisela Stein – Else Lasker-Schüler
• Frank Burkner – Paul Cassirer
• Hanns Zischler – Alfred Flechtheim
• Ulrich Gregor – Kurt Wolff (publisher)
• Hans Christoph Buch – Franz Werfel
• Harun Farocki – Friend of Flechtheim

Production[]

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

References[]

External links[]

• Ich räume auf at IMDb