Imagine a play with 700 people and live animals on stage, and you’ll get Passionspiel. It was supposed to happen in 2020, as it has for nearly 400 years in the Bavarian town of Oberammergau: a ...
Once a decade, ever since 1634, German village Oberammergau has staged a remarkable, epic play about Jesus Christ involving thousands of residents. Laura Studarus gets a front-row view. Visiting ...
Numerous river cruise lines are offering sailings that include attending the once-every-decade Passion Play performance in Oberammergau, Germany, in 2020. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Oberammergau ...
Reporting from Oberammergau, Germany — — Villages in the Bavarian Alps go to sleep early on summer nights. Silence rolls down from the mountaintops along with an eiderdown blanket of fog. A ...
(RNS) — Passion plays originated in the Middle Ages in Christian Europe as a way to celebrate and teach the story of the last days of Jesus’ life and from the beginning embodied the anti-Judaism ...
Linderhof Palace is straight from the pages of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale and was one of the lavish hunting lodges used by Ludwig II. Explore the spectacular Hall of Mirrors, the tapestry ...
The preacher’s weekly challenge—What story shall I tell?—is perhaps less challenging in Holy Week than at any other time except Christmas. The Passion story provides characters, plot, dynamics, and ...
Here in Oberammergau, a pretty village in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, I’m watching one of the most disturbing spectacles I’ve seen in 50 years of theatregoing. On the stage of this outdoor ...
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After a two-year pandemic delay, villagers in the German town of Oberammergau are once again re-enacting the story of Jesus’s life and death, with some changes. Frederik Mayet as Jesus on the cross in ...
Since 1634, the people of a small Bavarian village have performed a Passion Play every 10 years. It makes millions, but what has it cost them? Andreas Richter, one of the two actors playing Jesus, ...
Reporting from Oberammergau, Germany — — Villages in the Bavarian Alps go to sleep early on summer nights. Silence rolls down from the mountaintops along with an eiderdown blanket of fog. A cowbell ...
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