The exhibition was developed and privately financed in the 1990s by Maxi Besold, a member of the board of the Archiv der Münchner Arbeiterbewegung association. It was shown in trade union institutions and left-wing clubs and societies in and around Munich. In 1999, with the founding of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Maxi Besold made the offer to produce a transportable version of the exhibition in a joint project with the RLS. Consisting of 36 A0 panels, it was finished in November 2002 and has been on display at the RLS ever since, except when loaned as a travelling exhibition. The panels vividly combine texts by the author Maxi Besold with historical photographs and quotations from Rosa Luxemburg’s letters and works, as well as documents from the international labour movement.

The exhibition cannot, of course, reflect all the facets of Rosa Luxemburg’s extraordinary life. But it can inspire us to continue to study the life, ideas, and the tireless struggle of this outstanding woman, who even as a schoolgirl had already stated: “I would like to load all suffering, all the hidden, bitter tears onto the conscience of the rich”.

_{Photo: Rosa Luxemburg at the age of 12.}