News - Passion 2022

27.09.2022

Press release on the last performance of the 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play

110 performances will have been held successfully on the stage come October 2nd 2022. The responsible persons draw a positive balance.

03.08.2022

Christian Stückl to Receive American Jewish Committee Isaiah Award

On August 10, Rabbi Noam Marans, AJC’s Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, awards the prize in Oberammergau

04.05.2022

Press release for the Premiere of the 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play

After 2 years of waiting and 6 months of intensive rehearsals, the time has come: the 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play is set to premiere on May 14

06.01.2022

Press release on the first Reading Rehearsal for the Passion Play 2022

Rehearsals for the next Passion Play to commence after nearly 2-year interruption

29.11.2021

Press release concerning the insolvency of Helmut Gallist GmbH

Insolvency proceedings have been opened against the assets of Helmut Gallist GmbH, which also sold tickets for the Oberammergau Passion Play.

16.03.2021

Oberammergau wins bid from German National Tourist Board for Germany Travel Mart (GTM)

The largest incoming workshop for Destination Germany will take place in Oberammergau in 2022.

09.03.2021

Christian Stückl awarded the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal

Deutscher Koordinierungsrat honors Stückl's commitment against anti-Semitism and racism and his fight against anti-Judaism in the Passion Play

17.02.2021

Press release for the Youth Days on May 7 and 8, 2022

On May 7 and 8, 2022, for the first time in the almost 400-year history of the Oberammergau Passion Play, Youth Days will take place.

17.02.2021

Press Release: Hair and Beard Decree on Ash Wednesday

As of today, the people from Oberammergau will have to let their hair grow.

07.10.2020

The Oberammergau Passion Play Theatre is now a listed building

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation has included the theatre building in its list of monuments

01.10.2020

Advance ticket sales start for the Oberammergau Passion Play 2022

Director Christian Stückl gave an overview of the current state of planning and presented the schedule until the premiere on 14th May 2022.

27.07.2020

Award of the Abraham Geiger Prize to Christian Stückl

On 26 July 2020 Christian Stückl was awarded the Abraham Geiger Prize for his commitment against anti-Semitism and racism.

19.03.2020

Postponement of the 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play to the year 2022

Due to the Corona pandemic, the Administrative District Office of Garmisch-Partenkirchen prohibits the performance of the 2020 Passion Play.

21.10.2018

Announcement of the Oberammergau Passion Play cast 2020

All the waiting of the past few weeks has come to an end, and the cast for the 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play was presented to the public

30.08.2018

Pre-booking for Ticket Only now available

You can now make a binding pre-booking for tickets only. The pre-sale will start in spring 2019.

05.04.2018

1,830 people of Oberammergau want to participate in the 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play in 2020

1,830 citizens applied to a place on stage in 2020 at the world’s most famous and largest Passion Play

08.03.2018

A village and its passion for the Play

Press conference with director Christian Stückl - Package sales for private individuals startet at ITB

28.02.2018

Visit us at the ITB 2018 in Berlin!

We are glad to announce the start of pre-sale for arrangements/packages to individual customers, come and visit us at the Bayernhalle.

05.02.2018

PR tour through America

Ten days Christian Stückl and Frederik Mayet, Jesus actor in 2010 and media spokesman of the Passion Play, were travelling through the US.

01.10.2017

Appeal to the public to participate

The exact number of actors for 2020 will be determined in the upcoming months. The participation call will commence on October 1st.