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Passion
Play 2020
Oberammergau
Welcome
back for the next Passion Play in 2020! Terra Lu Travel will once
again be your partner for customized group arrangements to Oberammergau
and the Passion Play.
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A
play of life and death, promised in a moment of mortal threat
- so began the history of the Oberammergau
Passion Play in 1633. In the middle of the Thirty Years
War, after months of suffering and death from the plague, the
Oberammergauers swore an oath that they would perform the "Play
of the Suffering, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ"
every ten years. At Pentecost 1634, they fulfilled their pledge
for the first time on a stage they put up in the cemetery above
the fresh graves of the plague victims. In the year 2000, the
Community of Oberammergau performed the Passion Play they have
preserved throughout the centuries with singular continuity
for the 40th time. |
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The
Passion Play Today
In this
spirit, during a work period of several years, text and music
were fundamentally revised, new settings and costumes were
designed and a new production was created in countless rehearsals.
Now, more than 2,000 Oberammergauers, actors, singers, instrumentalists
and stage technicians bring to the stage those events Christianity
regards as its central source of life and hope in approximately
six hours of playing time.
Otto Huber
(Assistant Director and Literary Advisor)
© www.oberammergau.de. Used by permission.
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photographs:
Oberammergau Passion Play 2000
© Gemeinde Oberammergau
used by permission
click on photographs to enlarge!
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But did you
know that tehre are many other Passionplays coming up? 2018 in Sömmersdorf,
2019 in Erl, and 2020 in Oberammergau.
For more details
and to secure tickets check out our new portal
www.passionplay.travel
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