Aber nicht küssen ist auch kontraproduktiv. Szenen aus dem Leben der Rosa Luxemburg (2. Teil)

2. Frieden!

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The second part "Preace" of the four-part series on Rosa Luxemburg begins with her return from the Russian revolution in 1906 and ends in August 1914. We experience her promotion of the general strike as a means to prevent the approaching war; her dispute about it with the leaders of the SPD; the painful separation from her long-time life partner Leon Jogiches; her friendship with Clara Zetkin and how she explains imperialism as a teacher at the party college, finally how she fights for peace with tireless commitment on the streets and at international conferences - until the moment when she has to experience the outbreak of the world war.

The production relies on the power of Luxemburg's language, leads with a light hand from the report to the play scene, translates temporal structures spatially and stays close to the audience. Last but not least, the actress Ana Hauck, who comes from the Georgian State Theatre in Tbilisi, embodies Rosa Luxemburg so forcefully that "on a sparse stage in a small backyard in Kreuzberg" (Sonia Mikich, WDR) the audience comes surprisingly close to the life and thinking of one of the greatest women in German history.

Rosa Luxemburg has long been an icon of the left, but her political insights and positions are rarely noticed and even more rarely taken to heart. 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. After two world wars (and a looming third), after the material and spiritual impoverishment of the majority 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.

Performance: Ana Hauck und H.G. Fries

Director: Elke Schuster, Camilla Cecile Körner

Recherche and compliation of texts: Helma Fries

Design: Elke Schuster