Leopoldstadt
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Leopoldstadt
14.99 €
Herman Merz's family celebrates both Catholic Christmas and Jewish Passover. A baptized Jew, married to a Catholic, an Austrian citizen and a successful businessman, he is the soul of a noisy, friendly and happy family.
We meet him on Christmas Eve 1899, when everyone is full of energy and plans, and Vienna - the center of the turbulent intellectual and social life of Europe. Together with life-loving, sincerely loving, thinking and sometimes incredibly naive characters we have to pass the milestones of recent history - the First and Second World War, the Anschluss, the Holocaust and the bitter sobering of the first post-war years. Not so long ago, the family saga, masterfully put into dramatic form, read in the past tense as a finished portrait of the short twentieth century. Today, this play by Tom Stoppard, arguably one of the most important contemporary playwrights, speaks to each of us about our future and the future of our familiar world.
We meet him on Christmas Eve 1899, when everyone is full of energy and plans, and Vienna - the center of the turbulent intellectual and social life of Europe. Together with life-loving, sincerely loving, thinking and sometimes incredibly naive characters we have to pass the milestones of recent history - the First and Second World War, the Anschluss, the Holocaust and the bitter sobering of the first post-war years. Not so long ago, the family saga, masterfully put into dramatic form, read in the past tense as a finished portrait of the short twentieth century. Today, this play by Tom Stoppard, arguably one of the most important contemporary playwrights, speaks to each of us about our future and the future of our familiar world.
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- All books in the series Corpus.(drama)