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Serge

The siblings Serge, Jean and Nana Popper live in Paris. They are descendants of Jewish survivors of the Shoah whose stories stretch back to Hungary and Vienna. Grandfather, great-aunt and great-grandmother were murdered in Auschwitz; as members of the late second generation after the war, the three are slowly approaching retirement age.

However, that doesn't mean their lives are smooth sailing. Serge was dumped by his girlfriend Valentina and is still moving from job to job; the relationship with his daughter Josephine is complicated. Jean is also separated. And Nana struggles in her marriage and with her two children to somehow keep her head above water. There is no time, no leisure, no motivation to deal with the traumatic family history?

However, when their mother dies, the three decide to face the past. A crazy road trip to Auschwitz begins and a stress test of their relationship when they finally walk through the former death camp and try more or less unsuccessfully to come into contact with their dismay - while they are superficially in the comic blossoms that drive their constant quarrels, stay captive.

With SERGE, the French writer Yasmina Reza, born in 1959, dared to re-examine the culture of remembrance of the Shoah from a Jewish perspective. By contrasting the horrors of the death camps with everyday life in the neoliberal 21st century, the question of heritage arises anew: how do we stay in touch with it at all? After THREE MAL LIFE, ART, THE GOD OF CARNAGE and BELLA FIGURA, SERGE is the fifth text by Reza to be performed at the Burgtheater.

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