Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 - January 15, 1919, in Polish language Ró?a Luksemburg) was a Polish-born German Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. She was a social democratic theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and later the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. She started the newspaper The Red Flag, and cofounded the Spartakusbund, a Marxist revolutionary group that became the Communist Party of Germany and took part in an unsuccessful revolution in Berlin in January, 1919. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's advice, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing militias collectively called the Freikorps, which were sent in by the government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed.

Memorials

The East German government named Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and its U-Bahn station on the U2 line in Berlin's historic city center, Mitte, after her. The Volksbühne (People's Theatre) sits on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. The name has been left unchanged after reunification.

Related Topics:
East German - U-Bahn - Berlin - Mitte - Volksbühne

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An poetic Memorial for Rosa Luxemburg (Epitaph (1919)) was written by Bertolt Brecht, and set to music by Kurt Weill in 1928 (The Berlin Requiem):

Related Topics:
Bertolt Brecht - Kurt Weill

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:Red Rosa now has vanished too. (...)

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:She told the poor what life is about,

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:And so the rich have rubbed her out.

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:May she rest in peace.

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