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Date Posted: 07:41:58 10/19/08 Sun
Author: for his trip which sounds about right
Subject: He is a saver non stockmaket yes a two time frame
In reply to: Oberammergau Passionsspledarsteller 's message, "German FestivalsAnti-Semitism" on 07:36:26 10/19/08 Sun

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>German Festivals: Oberammergau Passionsspledarsteller
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>Figure 1.--Here we notice a postcard with the caption
>"Die kommenden Passionsspieldarsteller" That means the
>next Passion Play actors. We at first thought the
>children were girls, but notice they are wearing
>Lederhosen. I am guessing that the children are boys
>who grew long hair for roles in the Passion Play. I am
>not sure, but I would guess that this is in
>preparation for the 1930 production.
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>Oberammergau is a Bavarian village notable for
>woodcarving. It is often world famous for the
>traditional Passion Play, the most important one to
>survive. The Ommeramagau Passion Play is actually a
>fairly late survival of a tradition that is
>fundamentally medieval. Medieval passion plays
>depicting the life and death of Jesus were a form of
>both popular religion and theatrical entertainment.
>The Oberammergau Passion Play is the most well-know
>surviving passion play and dates to the 17th century.
>At that time the villagers who were terrified of an
>outbreak of bubonic plague and pledged that they would
>organize a production of a passion play every 10
>years. After the plague seems to have subsided in
>1633, the village held their first production of the
>Passion Play in 1634. This was at a time that
>authorities had suppressed most surviving medieval
>Passion plays. The village now produces it Passion
>Play during the first year of each decade and more
>than 2,000 village residents participate. The
>Oberammergau Passion Play includes spoken drama,
>musical and choral accompaniment, as well as a
>Biblical tableaux vivants, including Old Testament
>scenes presented as background for the appearance of
>Christianity.
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>Oberammergau
>Oberammergau is a Bavarian village notable for
>woodcarving. It is often world famous for the
>traditional Passion Play, the most important one to
>survive. The Ommeramagau Passion Play is actually a
>fairly late survival of a tradition that is
>fundamentally medieval.
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>Passion Plays
>Passion Plays are medieval dramatizations of Christ's
>Passion. Traditionally Christ's Passion is seen as the
>last few day's of Christ's life, the period of intense
>suffering from the Garden of Gethsemane to his
>Crucifixion. The medieval passion plays gradually grew
>in length and commonly included Old Testament scenes
>as well as the Resurrection. They evolved from the
>religious fest days and varied in content because of a
>wide range of local influences. They began to appear
>in the 10th century in a basic form and had reached
>their peak of development n the 14th century. There
>were regional differences as the the style and
>content. They are of considerable historic importance
>because they represent an expression of the fervent
>religious of medieval Europe. They were also the first
>appearance of formal drama in Europe since classical
>times. Although the Church had played a role in the
>evolution of Passion Plays, they were unable to
>maintain control of these productions which over time
>became more popular entertainment than religious
>celebration. Ecclesiastical (Catholic and Protestant)
>and civil authorities acted to suppress the
>productions in the 16th century. The Oberammergau
>Passion Play is the most important one to survive.
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>Historical Origin
>The Oberammergau Passion Play is the most well-know
>surviving passion play and dates to the 17th century.
>At that time the villagers during the Thirty Years War
>were terrified of an outbreak of bubonic plague. They
>pledged that they would organize a production of a
>passion play every 10 years. After the plague seems to
>have subsided in 1633, the village held their first
>production of the Passion Play in 1634. This was at a
>time that authorities had suppressed most surviving
>medieval Passion plays. They changed to decennial
>years in 1700. The play itself seems to have been a
>fairly standard Passion Play of earlier medieval times
>with the simple village people explaining the story of
>the death of Jesus.
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>Few Exceptions
>There have been only a few years in which the people
>of Oberammergau did not perform their play, during the
>Franco-Prussian War (1879) and during World War II
>when the NAZIs banned religious plays.
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>Modern Productions
>The village now produces it Passion Play during the
>first year of each decade. It continues to be an
>entirely local production and more than 2,000 village
>residents participate. The Oberammergau Passion Play
>includes spoken drama, musical and choral
>accompaniment, as well as a Biblical tableaux vivants,
>including Old Testament scenes presented as background
>for the appearance of Christianity.
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>Children
>As can be seen here the village children also
>participate (figure 1). As far as I know the children
>are mostly included in crowd scenes. With the Biblical
>tribunal of Pilatus, the bearing of the cross through
>streets of Jerusalem, and with the crucifixion there
>are a lot of people on the stage, children included. A
>tradition of the Oberammergau Passion Play has been
>for as much as the village to participate as possible.
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>Costuming
>I am not sure how the original Oberammergau Passion
>Plays were costumed. The modern plays seem to be
>richly costumed in Biblical/Roman costumes. The
>photograph here shows some of the children involved,
>probably in the 1930 production. Most of the children
>wear Lederhosen. This would not be unusual for
>Bavarian boys, but some of the children seem to be
>girls. A German reader writes, "I think that - looking
>to the shoes - most of the children in the first row
>are girls. There are three kids, far right, far left
>and one in the black pullover, whom I suppose to be
>boys, the third and fourth in the first row from left
>to right are in my opinion certainly girls (no
>Bavarian farmers boy will have such shoes). And note
>the one on the far right with long stockings scrolled
>down below the knees." So we are not sure if the
>children are boys with long hair or girls, perhaps
>both. And we do not know if the children here are
>wearing costumes worn in the play. The Lederhosen seem
>strange for a Passion Play, but perhaps Bavarian
>folklore is included in the play, but why would the
>girls wear Lederhosen. The sandals seem more
>appropriate for the Biblical scenes. Open-toe sandals
>were not common in Germany during the 1930s.
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>Anti-Semitism
>Passion plays commonly included strong anti-Semitic
>elements. Commonly Judas betraying Christ was an
>important scenes. Since World War II and the NAZI
>Holocaust the villagers have attempted to downplay the
>anti-Semitic elements.

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