Many of Brecht's works deal with people at the bottom of society, such as soldiers, citizens, servants, vendors and workers, such as his two poems Questions of a Reading Worker and The Power of Workers.
In China, there is a young poet named Xu Lizhi. He used to be a worker on the assembly line at Foxconn. He wrote poems as an amateur and published them on the internet. In September 2014, he committed suicide by jumping off a building. Someone compiled his almost 200 poems into a poetry collection and published them under the title A New Day. Xu Lizhi is less than ten years away from us. Reading his poems still resonates with us.
Soemthing about workers juxtaposes Brecht's idealized workers with Xu Lizhi's descriptions of the reality of assembly lines in China.
written and directed by Lai Haifeng, Ou Jingwei, Peng Yanhan, Yu Lihui and Zheng Haoyue

Text rights:
Suhrkamp Publishing House / Brecht Heirs


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