Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels (; ; sometimes anglicised Frederick Engels; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, communist, social scientist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of a large textile factory in Salford, England. Engels founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 published "The Condition of the Working Class in England", based on personal observations and research in Manchester. In 1848, Engels co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially to do research and write "Das Kapital".
Manifesto (2015 film) and Friedrich Engels' 1848 "The Communist Manifesto" and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 1909 "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism", the latter his first selection, to film director Jim Jarmusch's "Golden Rules of Filmmaking" (2004), the most modern text referenced. Rosefeldt selected approximately 60 manifestos which he "found to be the most fascinating, and also the most requitable", or chose "because they suited one another." After collating and fragmenting numerous texts, eventually 12 manifesto collages materialized. Rosefeldt said that the main concept for the project was to have a woman embody the manifestos. He wanted to "make a piece in which a