Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse
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Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse or Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße (see ß) is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. The street runs north from Dircksenstrasse in the inner eastern part of the city, until Torstrasse where it becomes Schönhauser Allee. The best-known building on Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse is the Volksbühne (People's Theatre) at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (which was called Bülowplatz before World War II and Horst-Wessel-Platz during the Nazi period).
Before World War II Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse was not a separate street, but was a continuation of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse, the rest of which is now called Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse. During the years of the German Democratic Republic it was named for Rosa Luxemburg, a leading Marxist theoretician and one of the leaders of the Spartacist League, who was killed following the unsuccessful Communist uprising in Berlin in 1919. It is one of the few streets in East Berlin named for a prominent Communist that has retained its name following the reunification of Germany in 1991.
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