The fragmented Rosa (Die zersplitterte Rosa)

The idea of commemorating Rosa Luxemburg with a monument had been around since 1995. This was certainly due to the fact that - when several subway stations in East Berlin were renamed or renamed back on the first anniversary of German unification - Berlin's transport senator at the time demanded that the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz subway station also be renamed. However, he was unable to get his way with this, and the UFV also protested against this at the time with an open letter. 
Even though it was soon clear that such a monument should be erected on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (according to a corresponding resolution of the BVV Mitte in 1998), there was no agreement for a long time on how Rosa Luxemburg should be commemorated. This took too long for the sculptors Ingeborg Hunzinger and Rolf Biebl and the Antieiszeitkomitee: they created a life-size statue of Rosa Luxemburg and erected it at night in the entrance area of the Karl Liebknecht House on January 9, 1999. The PDS recognized a high level of personal commitment on the part of the artists, but nevertheless decided to place the statue in the entrance of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Friedrichshain.
In 2003, the Senate announced a competition to create a monument for Rosa Luxemburg. The jury, which included Frank Castorf, chose the design of conceptual artist Hans Haacke, and since September 2006, 60 quotations from Rosa Luxemburg's letters, articles and other writings have commemorated the co-founder of the KPD. The sentences, however, run along the ground, across streets and curbs, which makes reading them sometimes difficult and dangerous. And a passerby, who does not know at which place they are, can probably do little with the quotations.
This is probably the reason why the "junge Welt" campaigned for another monument to Rosa Luxemburg. In 2009 - on the 90th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg's assassination - a bronze statue depicting Rosa Luxemburg life-size was unveiled in front of her editorial building, on the corner of Linienstraße and Weydingerstraße. This is a copy of the statue erected by Hunzinger, Biebl and the Antieiszeitkomitee in 1999 on the square.Ronald Friedmann: Die Zentrale. Geschichte des Berliner Karl-Liebknecht-Hauses. dietz 2011, S. 149-156. 
junge Welt, 12.01.2009, Ein Denkmal für Rosa
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