A lecture performance in four parts

At the beginning of the century, Rosa Luxemburg expressed thoughts and attitudes that remain valid far beyond her time. The aim is to discover a largely unknown Rosa Luxemburg.

KEY VISUAL Rosa Luxemburg - Aber nicht küssen ist auch kontraproduktiv

Rosa Luxemburg - Aber nicht küssen ist auch kontraproduktiv

In the Berlin company's production, scenes from Rosa Luxemburg's private and political life alternate with reports about her, with passages from her letters, from her speeches, newspaper articles and scientific works.

PROGRAM

Fri, 9.2. , 7:30 p.m
Sat, February 10th, 7:30 p.m
Sun, February 11th, 6:00 p.m

1. Revolution! (1871 - 1905)
From Rosa Luxemburg's beginnings in Poland to her times in Switzerland and Germany, to her fight against Bernstein's revisionism to her participation in the Russian Revolution in Warsaw in 1905.

Fri, February 16, 7:30 p.m
Sat, February 17th, 7:30 p.m
Sun, February 18th, 6:00 p.m

2. Peace! (1906 - 1914)
The second part begins with Rosa's return from the Russian Revolution in 1906 and ends in August 1914. We experience her campaigning for the general strike as a means of preventing the impending war; her dispute about this with the leaders of the SPD August Bebel and Karl Kautsky; the painful separation from her long-term partner Leon Jogiches; her friendship with Clara Zetkin; Rosa, who, as a teacher at the party school, explains imperialism to her students Friedrich Ebert and Wilhelm Pieck; Finally, how she fights for peace with tireless efforts on the streets and at international conferences - until the moment when she has to experience the outbreak of the world war.

Fri, February 23rd, 7:30 p.m
Sat, February 24th, 7:30 p.m
Sun, February 25th, 6:00 p.m

3. Freedom (1914 - 1918)
Her horror at the World War and the crisis of social democracy, the time in prison, Rosa's love for people, plants and animals, her confrontation with Lenin and the October Revolution - from August 5, 1914 until her release from prison on November 8, 1918 .

Fri, March 1st, 7:30 p.m
Sat, March 2nd, 7:30 p.m
Sun, March 3, 6:00 p.m

4. Rosa Luxemburg in the November Revolution (November 9, 1918 - January 15, 1919)
The world war has ended, the emperor has been driven out, parliamentary democracy has been won - now the revolution must continue. After Rosa, released from Breslau prison, arrived in Berlin on November 10th, she threw herself into the revolutionary events with verve; advocates for the power of the workers' and soldiers' councils, and as editor-in-chief of the Rote Fahne, criticizes the new government of the SPD and USPD with extreme severity. For them, however, the masses remain to the end the decisive authority for the realization of socialism, for a revolution in society without terror.

(Program in German)

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