Lehman Brothers

In the New World he becomes Henry Lehman, who opens a small fabric shop in Montgomery. He is followed by two of his brothers. This is the beginning of a breathtaking rise over three generations and 150 years: from the cloth goods trade to the founding of his own bank to the way to the top of the New York financial world.


The expansion of the family business also highlights important events in American history. The Civil War, the triumph of the railways and automobile industry, the Great Depression, the Vietnam War and the beginning of the computer age - they are all inextricably linked to the moves and decisions of the Lehman empire.

In 2008, the investment bank “Lehman Brothers” collapsed, heralding the beginning of a global financial and economic crisis, the consequences of which the world has not yet gotten over to this day. With suspense and clever wit, Stefano Massini, one of Italy's most important contemporary dramatists, tells of 150 years of world history and the myth of a powerful family.