Rosa Luxemburg - Stations in her Life
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rosa Luxemburg - Stations in her Life |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 21 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Renate Drescher |
| script |
Günter Radczun , Renate Drescher |
| production | DEFA studio for documentary films |
| music | Ruth Zechlin |
| camera |
Jürgen Bahr , archive material |
| cut | Evelyn Eweleit |
| occupation | |
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Rosa Luxemburg - Stations in Her Life is a documentary film by Renate Drescher from 1971 by DEFA Studio for Documentaries .
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Rosa Luxemburg was born in Zamość ( Russian Poland ) in 1871 as the fifth child of the Eliasz Luxemburg family and grew up in Warsaw. Books are part of everyday life in the family. Rosa loves animals and plants and therefore wants to study botany. In a secret Polish workers' group, she first encountered the exciting ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . At the age of 18, she fled political persecution for the first time in Zurich , Switzerland . Here Rosa Luxembourg successfully studied political science and economics and founded with Leo Jogiches she loves and Julian Marchlewski and other emigrants , the Social Democratic Party of Poland .
In 1898 Dr. Rosa Luxemburg went to Berlin because this is where the international workers' movement met and became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In her role as a party agitator , she travels across Germany to educate and organize. The goal is the overthrow of capitalism and the building of a new society by revolutionary means. For many years she taught at the Central Party School of the SPD, where she had a good relationship with her students, many of whom later became important revolutionaries. She is also a good draftsman and painter and translates books. Your apartment in Berlin is the meeting place for socialists from all European countries.
The Bolsheviks in Russia , under Lenin's leadership, have separated from the opportunist minority. The death of August Bebel shows how strongly the bourgeois ideology penetrated German social democracy. Some comrades, in small steps, barely noticeable to the majority of the members, led the party away from the revolutionary path. This can be seen most clearly when the strong parliamentary group of the Social Democrats in the German Reichstag votes for the approval of war credits. Rosa Luxemburg is dismayed and desperate about the war that follows. After the revolution in Russia in 1917, she, who was once again in prison, is convinced that a new era is now beginning. In November 1918 the revolution also rises in Germany and Rosa Luxemburg is released from prison at the age of 47 after two years in prison. The workers 'and soldiers' councils that are now emerging do not gain any decisive power, because they are being disintegrated from within. That is why Rosa Luxemburg is calling for a new socialist party to be founded in the Rote Fahne , which is up to the big hour. Therefore, on December 30, 1918, members of parliament from many cities in Berlin founded the Communist Party of Germany . Openly and undisguisedly, the right-wing leaders of social democracy are now inciting the counter-revolution on the leaders of the newly founded party.
On January 15, 1919, Rosa Luxemburg was shot dead by members of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division after her skull had already been smashed with a rifle butt. On the same day, her colleague Karl Liebknecht was shot from behind.
Production and publication
This black and white film was shot on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR . The premiere took place on February 18, 1971. The German TV broadcaster showed the film on March 11, 1971 in its first program.
Awards
- 1971: State rating "Valuable"
Web links
- Rosa Luxemburg - stations of her life at filmportal.de
- Rosa Luxemburg - Stations of her Life on DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit of March 11, 1971, p. 8