# Georgi — Metropolis character guide

> Georgi in Metropolis by Thea von Harbou.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Georgi

**First appearance:** 0001-metropolis

## Snapshot

A worker of the lower city whose voice rises from the machine halls to accuse the god-machines of strangling Metropolis itself.

## Who they are

Georgi belongs to the blue-linen masses whose ten-hour shifts feed the great machines, and he is among the first to give that exhaustion a voice — crying out that Metropolis has gone dumb and that the workers are the mangled food its god-machines chew. His outburst is both plea and indictment, addressed half to a father in heaven and half to Joh Fredersen, and it marks the moment the underground's suffering stops being silent. When the machines fall quiet and a mysterious 'she' calls the weary men away from sleep, Georgi's world becomes the stage on which the novel's uprising begins to gather.

## Relationships

### [Freder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/characters/freder)

_friendship_

Freder and Georgi are friends, with Georgi acting as a loyal worker ally.

### [Slim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/characters/slim)

_friendship_

Georgi and Slim are fellow workers and friends, united in their struggle.

### [Slim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/characters/slim)

_friendship_

Georgi and Slim are fellow workers and friends, united in their struggle.

### [Freder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/characters/freder)

_friendship_

Freder and Georgi are friends, with Georgi acting as a loyal worker ally.

### [Freder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/characters/freder)

_friendship_

Freder and Georgi are friends, with Georgi acting as a loyal worker ally.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/chapters/iii)

Worker at the Paternoster machine, recites a distorted Lord's Prayer, collapses, and is sent by Freder to find Josaphat.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/chapters/vi)

Found in a trance at Yoshiwara, wearing Freder's clothes; reveals Freder exchanged clothes with him.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/chapters/vii)

Mentioned as the worker with whom Freder exchanged clothes. He was supposed to come to Josaphat's but never arrived, raising concerns about his fate.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/chapters/xiv)

Worker who protects Freder from the mob, taking a fatal knife wound; dies urging Freder to warn the town.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/characters/georgi
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