Blog - Passion 2022

12.10.2022

That was the Oberammergau Passion Play 2022!

On October 2nd the 42nd Passion Play ended after 110 performances and more than four years of preparations.

15.09.2022

The sound makes the Play

Rudolf Pirc and his team have developed a completely new location and sound system for the Passion Play 2022.

02.09.2022

Suddenly it's quiet as a mouse

The climax of the Play is the crucifixion. How does it feel to hang on the cross? And what are the challenges?

22.08.2022

Adult-free zone

The children in Oberammergau rehearse and perform their own Passion Play. Premiere is in the last week of the summer break.

09.08.2022

Life backstage

There is a lot going on not only on stage of the Passion Play Theatre, but also in the dressing rooms.

01.07.2022

100 days with Jesus

Sylvia Heinzeller works in the Jesus actors' dressing room

21.04.2022

The Passion Play's DNA

The building and room installation in the Oberammergau Museum explores the relationships between people and their surroundings

07.04.2022

The little ones to the front

On the 1st weekend in April it got crowded again in the Passion Play Theatre: the first big rehearsal also means the return on stage for the children

23.03.2022

Moving Pictures

The Icelandic photographer and cinematographer Birgit Gudjonsdottir is responsible for photographing the photo book of the 2022 Passion Play.

16.03.2022

Capturing moments for eternity

A mere year after graduating from school, Oberammergau native Sebastian Schulte started serving as the Passion Play's official photographer

28.02.2022

Images of People

The role of the Living Images, or Tableaux Vivants, in the Passion Play and the reasons why they pose such a huge technical challenge

28.01.2022

Creating closeness out of strangeness

In music, Markus Zwink tells the Passion story through emotion

06.01.2022

Together again at last

The rehearsal period for the Passion Play 2022 begins with the first reading

30.11.2021

Sleeping lions and waiting snakes

After the Covid break, the workshops in Oberammergau are coming back to life. Preparations for 2022 are underway.

10.11.2021

The Passion Play's Memory

Hermann Wiegand has been checking the attendance of the performers since 1990 and documents the events on stage and backstage in his caricatures.

17.08.2021

Of humans and animals

In the Passion Play, it is not only humans who play a role. And they are not always the ones in charge.

23.05.2021

It will go on

It is still a year until the premiere of the 42nd Passion Play. Play director Christian Stückl takes time to reflect on the past months.

31.03.2021

Big world in miniature

An exhibition in the Oberammergau Museum shows stage models of past Passion Plays and the Rosner rehearsal

15.03.2021

Are we Jesus?

Frederik Mayet and Rochus Rückel – two main actors between melancholy and anticipation

08.02.2021

Times are getting hairy - The Hair and Beard Decree on Ash Wednesday

About growing out hair, beards in times of FFP2 masks, guys with ponytails, and all the awkward in-between stages.