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.

The film describes a dispute between poet Else Lasker-Schüler and her publishers.

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.