Editing Rosa Luxemburg (section)

== In popular culture and literature ==
Due to Luxemburg's importance in the development of theories of [[Marxist humanist]] thought, the role of democracy and mass action to achieve international socialism as a pioneering advocate of workers' rights, gender equality, and as a martyr to her cause, she has become a minor iconic figure,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8074334.stm|title=German corpse 'may be Luxemburg'|publisher=BCC News|date=29 May 2009|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahjewell/badass-historical-women-to-name-your-daughters-after|title=14 Badass Historical Women To Name Your Daughters After|work=BuzzFeed|date=13 January 2016|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref> celebrated with references in popular culture. The night of his death, [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]] was working on a script about Luxemberg.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1049-sweet-death-veronika-voss-production-histor | title=Sweet Death:Veronika Voss Production History }}</ref>

[[File:Ich Bin Eine Terroristin.JPG|thumb|[[Stencil graffiti]] of Rosa Luxemburg on a portion of the [[Berlin Wall]] on display in [[Potsdamer Platz]] in Berlin whose title reads "I am a terrorist"]]
[[File:DSC08757 Frankfurt Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße Portrait.jpg|thumb|Portrait at ''[[Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße (Frankfurt am Main)|Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße]]'']]
* Bulgarian writer [[Hristo Smirnenski]], who praised communist ideology, wrote the poem "Rosa Luxemburg" in tribute to Luxemburg in 1923.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hakkindabilgial.com/hristo-smirnenski-kimdir/|title=Hristo Smirnenski Kimdir?|last=hakki|date=7 October 2015|website=Hakkında Bilgi|language=tr|access-date=21 April 2019}}</ref>
* ''[[Rosa Luxemburg (film)|Rosa Luxemburg]]'' (1986),<ref>{{citation|title=Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg (1986)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rosa_luxemburg|access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Platypus Affiliated Society|title=Rosa Luxemburg|url=http://archive.org/details/RosaLuxemburg|access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref> 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]].
* In 1992, the [[Quebec]] painter [[Jean-Paul Riopelle]] realised a fresco composed of thirty paintings entitled ''Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mnbaq.org/en/exhibition/jean-paul-riopelle-1213|title=Jean-Paul Riopelle "Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg"|website=Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)|access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/mitchell--riopelle---nothing-in-moderation-650419563.html|title=Mitchell {{!}} Riopelle – Nothing in Moderation|last=Québec|first=Musée national des beaux-arts du|website=Newswire.ca|access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref> It is on permanent display at the [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec|National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec]] in [[Quebec City]].
* Luxemburg influences the lives of several characters in [[William T. Vollmann]]'s 2005 historical fiction ''[[Europe Central]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Europe central|last=Vollmann, William T.|date=2005|publisher=Viking|isbn=978-0670033928|location=New York|oclc=56911959|url=https://archive.org/details/europecentral00voll_0}}</ref>
* ''Rosa'', a novel by [[Jonathan Rabb]] (2005), gives a fictional account of the events leading to Luxemburg's murder.
* The heroine in the novel ''[[Burger's Daughter]]'' (1979) by [[Nadine Gordimer]] is named Rosa Burger in homage to Luxemburg.<ref name="Niedziałek">{{cite journal |last=Niedziałek |first=Ewe |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=739975 |title=The Desire of Nowhere – Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter in a Trans-cultural Perspective |journal=Colloquia Humanistica |publisher=Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk|year=2018 |issue=7 |pages=40–41 |doi=10.11649/ch.2018.003|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[Simon Louvish]]'s 1994 alternate history novel ''The Resurrections'' (from [[Four Walls Eight Windows]], a revision of ''Resurrections from the Dustbin of History: A Political Fantasy''), had Luxemburg and Liebknecht avoid death, their revolution becoming reality in 1923 when a failed Reichstag coup by [[Strasserism|Gregor and Otto Strasser]] (plotted by the [[Black Reichswehr]]'s [[Bruno Ernst Buchrucker]]) killed [[Gustav Stresemann]], [[Wilhelm Cuno]], [[Hans von Seeckt]] and 17 deputies followed by the Marxists creating a Berlin commune whose squads executed the Strassers and any Nazis not already in exile, the Reichswehr then disarming the ''Freikorps'' and accepting a German Soviet Republic's legitimacy, with Liebknecht as [[Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)|Minister of the Interior]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The resurrections : a novel|last=Louvish, Simon|date=1994|publisher=Four Walls Eight Windows|others=Louvish, Simon|isbn=978-1568580142|location=New York|oclc=30158761|url=https://archive.org/details/resurrectionsnov00louv}}</ref>
* A song on the 1997 album ''[[:ru:Морская (альбом)|Morskaya]]'' of the Russian [[Rock music|rock band]] [[Mumiy Troll]] is titled in her honor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mumiytroll.bandcamp.com/album/morskaya-nautical|title=Morskaya (Nautical), by Mumiy Troll|website=Mumiy Troll|access-date=21 April 2019|archive-date=10 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210190050/https://mumiytroll.bandcamp.com/album/morskaya-nautical|url-status=dead}}</ref>-
* Luxemburg appears in ''[[November 1918: A German Revolution|Karl and Rosa]]'', a novel by [[Alfred Döblin]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Karl and Rosa : a novel|last=Döblin, Alfred|date=1983|publisher=Fromm International Pub. Corp|isbn=978-0880640107|edition=1st U.S.|location=New York|oclc=9894460|url=https://archive.org/details/karlrosanovel00dobl}}</ref>-
* ''Red Rosa'' is a graphic novelisation by [[Kate Evans]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/the-radical-life-of-rosa-luxemburg/|title=The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg|newspaper=The Nation|date=26 October 2015|access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref>
* German artist Max Beckmann in his post WWI lithograph Das Martyrium depicts Luxemburg's murder as a sexual assault, her clothes torn, her underwear revealed, one soldier fondling her left breast; another smirking while aiming his rifle butt at her right breast, the hotel manager holding her legs apart. There is no historical justification for this depiction. Tellini in Woman's Art Journal 1997 argues both the sensationalising aspect of graphic sexual assault as well as the artist's [[misogyny]] were probably responsible.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tellini|first=Ute L.|date=1997|title=Max Beckmann's "Tribute" to Rosa Luxemburg|journal=Woman's Art Journal|volume=18|issue=2|pages=22–26|doi=10.2307/1358547|issn=0270-7993|jstor=1358547}}</ref>
* The feminist magazine ''Lux'', which began in 2020, says that it is named for Rosa Luxemburg, describing her as "one of the most creative minds to remake the socialist tradition".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lux-magazine.com/about/|title=About}}</ref>
* Canadian author [[Kyo Maclear]] wrote in her 2017 book ''Birds, Art, Life: A year of observation'' about the pleasure that Luxemburg took when she was in prison from hearing and seeing birds, based on Luxemburg's letters from prison.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Birds, Art, Life: A year of observation|last=Maclear, Kyo|year= 2017|isbn=978-1501154201|edition= First U.S.|location=New York}}</ref>