Es kommt drauf an, sie zu verändern

ES KOMMT DRAUF AN, SIE ZU VERÄNDERN   is a combative educational film about women's work in the metal and electrical industry that documents small-scale, monotonous, and underpaid factory work, and was only possible to make under a pretext. Claudia von Alemann described the shoot as a “female Wallraffiade,” (investigative method of undercover journalism used by the German journalist Günter Wallraff). In addition to economic exploitation, the film depicts the oppression of women in society as a whole and their lack of self-organization. It also criticizes the failure of male-dominated unions to support women. Claudia von Alemann's activist film contrasts the marginalization of women and their apparent passivity with processes of solidarity and opportunities for action; women have their say and actively defend themselves. In the 1970s, the film was often screened in the context of advocacy for labor struggles. Thus, the quote from Karl Marx's Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach that is cited in the title is put into practice: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”