BERLIN
Pia R�nicke
CROY NIELSEN
The private correspondence of Rosa Luxemburg lies at the heart of Pia R�nicke's Rosa's Letters - Telling a Story, 2006. Yet telling the story of this complex multimedia installation might prove more challenging than narrating the life of Luxemburg, the Marxist leader who was often imprisoned for her political activities and then murdered by Freicorps militia in Berlin in 191 9. While alluding to the official public history, R�nicke restaged her own subjective "appropriation" of letters that Luxemburg wrote to her lovers and friends between 1891 and 1918. Instead of one story, there are two: the past and its transmission to the …
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