Leopoldstadt

Vienna, 1899: The Jewish Merz family, which has long included Christian members, celebrates Christmas in their upper-class Ringstrasse apartment. A new century is about to dawn and they look forward to it full of hope. Although Jews are still discriminated against, the Merzens have come a long way, associate with Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler and almost everyone finds Theodor Herzl's idea of a Jewish state quite absurd. More than 50 years later - after two world wars, a global economic crisis and the Holocaust - the last Merz descendants meet again in the same apartment.

Tom Stoppard is one of the most important voices in contemporary British drama. With Leopoldstadt, he deals with his own Jewish origins, of which he himself knew nothing for a long time, and translates his own autobiography into a large-scale stage work that raises the history of Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries in a multifaceted and tragicomic way. Following successful productions at the National Theatre London, on Broadway and at Vienna's Theater in der Josefstadt, director Johanna Schall is now staging the German premiere of the play at Theater Münster.

Never again is now!

German premiere
German by Daniel Kehlmann

Playing time : 2 hours 30 minutes, intermission after 1 hour 10 minutes