Rosa Luxemburg - Popular Culture and Literature

Popular Culture and Literature

  • Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg (1986), in German & Polish, Directed by Margarethe von Trotta. The film, which stars Barbara Sukowa as Luxemburg, was the winner of the Best Actress Award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg, Die (1986) at the Internet Movie Database
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder was planning a film on Luxemburg at the time of his death in 1982, and was said to want Jane Fonda for the lead.
  • In 2010, French song-writer Claire Diterzi created a musical "Rosa la Rouge" (Rosa the red), inspired by the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
  • "Rosa" a novel by Jonathan Rabb (Halban Publishers, 2005), gives a fictional account of the events leading to Luxemburg's murder.
  • British math-rock band, The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg took their name from the infamous event.
  • The heroine in Burger's Daughter (1979), by Nadine Gordimer, is named Rosa Burger in homage to Luxemburg.
  • Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series of alternate history novels contains an American Socialist politician named Flora Hamburger, in obvious parallel to the real timeline's Rosa Luxemburg.

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