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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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01.07.2022
100 days with Jesus
Sylvia Heinzeller works in the Jesus actors' dressing room

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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

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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

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23.03.2022
Moving Pictures
The Icelandic photographer and cinematographer Birgit Gudjonsdottir is responsible for photographing the photo book of the 2022 Passion Play.

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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

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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

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28.01.2022
Creating closeness out of strangeness
In music, Markus Zwink tells the Passion story through emotion

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06.01.2022
Together again at last
The rehearsal period for the Passion Play 2022 begins with the first reading

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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31.03.2021
Big world in miniature
An exhibition in the Oberammergau Museum shows stage models of past Passion Plays and the Rosner rehearsal

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15.03.2021
Are we Jesus?
Frederik Mayet and Rochus Rückel – two main actors between melancholy and anticipation

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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.

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