Aber nicht küssen ist auch kontraproduktiv. Szenen aus dem Leben der Rosa Luxemburg (1. Teil)

1. Revolution! (1871 – 1905)

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1. Revolution !

From the beginnings in Poland, through the times in Switzerland and Germany, through Rosa Luxemburg's struggle against Bernstein's revisionism, to Rosa Luxemburg's participation in the Russian Revolution in Warsaw in 1905)

Rosa Luxemburg has long been an icon of the left, but her political insights and positions are rarely recognized and even more rarely heeded. Yet, at the beginning of the century, she expressed thoughts and took positions that remain valid far beyond her time. Especially in our days, a renewed look at this great woman could be very useful.

It is necessary to discover a widely unknown Rosa Luxemburg.

 

In the production of the Berlin company, play 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.

 

It all sounds a bit theoretical, but on stage it turns into amusing, varied, exciting scenes. A mix of epic theater and lecture performance. There is a lot to learn and the theater audience gets its money's worth.

 

The production relies on the power of the language of Luxembourg, leads with a light hand from the report to the play scene, implements temporal structures spatially and stays close to the audience.

 

Last but not least, the actress Ana Hauck, who comes from the Georgian State Theater in Tbilisi, embodies Rosa Luxemburg so vividly that "on a sparse stage in a small Kreuzberg backyard" (Sonia Mikich), the life and thoughts of one of the greatest women in German history come surprisingly close to the audience.

What closeness? After two world wars (and a looming third), after the material and spiritual impoverishment of most of humanity, the destruction of the biosphere and the threatening extinction of all life on earth - it has come to pass as Rosa Luxemburg predicted at the beginning of the 20th century. She expected these catastrophes in the event that the profit logic of capital, that rearmament and imperialism continue to dominate the world. The socialism for which she lived and died included not only liberation from exploitation, but peace, truly democratic conditions, and "the widest humanity." Rosa Luxemburg's ideas are as relevant today as they were before the First World War.