The screenplay for Fritz Lang’s legendary film Metropolis, which shaped the classic, albeit dystopian, image of the modern city, goes back to an often-unnamed author, Thea von Harbou, who was well known during her time as the writer of screenplays for the film. The script was preceded by a novel in which the disturbing and fascinating vision of a future, capitalist, two-class society geared towards machine production is portrayed. Von Harbou was able, in creating the fictional urban setting, to refer to a literary tradition of technological future visions of women, starting from Margaret Cavendish via Anna Bowman, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Anna Adolph, and many others.