Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui

In the organizer's words:

The economic crisis is spreading throughout Chicago. The vegetable trade is doing particularly badly. To save his business, the cauliflower trust has to get creative. Arturo Ui offers his help, but the businessmen want nothing to do with him and his gang of gangsters. Instead, they involve the respected politician Dogsborough in an intrigue. And Arturo Ui, who catches wind of the corruption between the cauliflower business and politics, senses his chance. Bit by bit, he plays the other players off against each other and seizes power. Anyone who gets in his way is eliminated. Ui and his gang soon control the entire cauliflower business. But that's not all: in addition to Chicago, the neighboring town of Cicero also comes under his wing.

In 1941, Bertolt Brecht writes his "Arturo Ui" within a few weeks in exile in Finland. The power of the National Socialists was at its peak and Brecht planned to leave for America. He relocates the rise of the fascists in Europe to Chicago's gangster milieu and uses Arturo Ui's expansion of power to demonstrate how greed for profit and fascism go hand in hand.