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	Oberammergau Passion Play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oberammergau Passion Play is a passion play performed since 1634 as a tradition, by the inhabitants of the village of Oberammergau in Bavaria (now in Germany).
		It can be said that the evolution of the Passion Play was about the same as that of the Easter Play, originating in the ritual of the Latin Church, which prescribes, among other things, that the Gospel on Good Friday should be sung in parts divided among various persons.
		In 1770, Oberammergau was informed that all passion plays in Bavaria had been banned by order of the Ecclesiastical Council of the Elector, Maximillian Joseph at the behest of the Roman Catholic Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oberammergau_Passion_Play (679 words)

	Introduction - Oberammergau - Passion Play
		In the year 1633, when Oberammergau was in the grip of the fl plague, the inhabitants took an oath that they would stage a performance of the bitter suffering of Jesus Christ every 10 years.
		Oberammergau, famous all over the world for being rooted to the soil, will again demonstrate that the play is still as valid as it was more than 370 years ago and that it has become an outstanding cultural event of our country.
		The structure of the play with its tableaux vivants from the Old Testament and the scenes acted from the New Testament have been retained.
	www.neuschwanstein-country.net /hotels/Oberammergau/en/introduc.htm (325 words)

	Passion Play: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The chief survival among the passion plays is the one performed at Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps.
		Passion Play, which conjures up dramatizations...mind is on colorful display in Passion Play, an epic she has been crafting...
		Passion Play Is Not for Us: Nev...has no desire to appear in a passion play at Old Trafford on Saturday...will no doubt show a lot of passion but I would be surprised if...scale, it is the Euro 2000 play-off with Scotland, or the...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/passion_play.jsp (1725 words)

	Oberammergau
		Oberammergau is justly celebrated as one of the few places in the world where theater still matters.
		Oberammergau is also notorious for staging a play — praised by Hitler himself and sharply attacked by Jewish organizations — that has long portrayed Jews as bloodthirsty and treacherous villains who conspire to kill Jesus.
		Annelies Buchwieser, a native of Oberammergau, related to me how in 1950 one of her age-mates, the talented Gabriele Gropper, had been slated to play Mary, the lead female role, until she was seen dancing with American soldiers.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/shapiro-oberammergau.html (2078 words)

	(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ADL and Dr. Swidler were invited by Klement Fend, the Mayor of Oberammergau, to attend a meeting to discuss new versions of the script of the Passion Play and its presentation in the year 2000.
		The Oberammergau Passion Play group should be commended for the changes and improvements in the text that contribute much to a better presentation of Jews and Judaism.
		Passion Plays have been sources of that contempt for Judaism and require a careful consideration in order to avoid the serious problems of the past.
	www.adl.org /Interfaith/Oberammergau/Oberammergau_print.asp (1554 words)

	Holidays to Germany by Moswin - Oberammergau Passion Play 2010
		In the year 2010, the Community of Oberammergau will for the 41st time be performing the play they have preserved throughout the centuries with singular continuity – often against resistance.
		Passion plays – performed throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, then banned from the cities in the 16th century – were, after experiencing a heyday in Baroque-Catholic Southern Germany, forbidden there, as well in the middle of the 18th century in the wake of the age of enlightenment.
		However, the Oberammergau Passion Play is particularly characterized by the musically illustrated tableaux vivants inserted into the story.
	www.moswin.com /passion_play_2010.htm (493 words)

	On Passion Plays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Passion Plays are, in general, sources of theological anti-Judaism and do not help to improve the relationship of Christians and Jews.
		It is equally important to point out that Jews are not against the Passion of Jesus, but are deeply concerned with the presentation of the Passion without an explanation that avoids any anti-Jewish theological or anti-Semitic interpretation.
		The Oberammergau City Hall will be presenting a millennial presentation of its Passion Play in May, 2000.
	www.adl.org /Interfaith/Oberammergau/Intro.asp (260 words)

	History of Passion Play 2000 in Oberammergau Germany - Christian Tours By Wilcox Travel
		The Passion Play, based on the life of Christ, dates from the 17th Century.
		The frightened population of Oberammergau prayed to be spared, taking a vow to be fulfilled not by a few but by the whole community.
		The play is performed in the Passion Play Theatre on an open stage, which incorporates the natural setting into the backdrop and seating for 4,780 spectators.
	www.passion-play.com /pp_history.html (273 words)

	Holidays to Germany by Moswin - Oberammergau
		Oberammergau – Passion Play, wood carvings and other passions: the small holiday community of Oberammergau with its 5300 inhabitants, situated in the Ammer Valley close to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, is known worldwide.
		Oberammergau`s WellenBerg, an outdoor and indoor swimming pool set in a stunning Alpine panorama, invites you to relax and refresh yourself with a 50-metre sports and a 90-metre natural outdoor pool, jacuzzis and giant water slides, 60 and 120 metres long, Bavaria´s largest sand arena and lots more.
		There is yet another reason why this village is known all over the world: since 1634 the inhabitants of Oberammergau have kept to their vow, taken after an outbreak of the plague in 1633, that they would perform a Passion Play every ten years in memory of the Passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
	www.moswin.com /oberammergau.htm (670 words)

	Anti Semitism In Passion Play
		INTRODUCTION The Passion Play is a genre of medieval religious drama which concentrates on the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus.
		The Val Balfour Passion Play was developed thirty years ago by the late Val Balfour as a two-and-one-half hour Americanized version of its European model, the ten-hour Oberammergau Play.
		Thus, despite the just-quoted affirmation in Balfourís History of the Passion Play that "the Roman Governor alone could sentence a man to death" and that "Crucifixion was a Roman punishment," another item in the Heritage literature packet, the Synopsis of the Play, states that Jesus is "condemned to be crucified" by the High Priests.
	www.passionplayusa.net /antismtsm.htm (3702 words)

	oberammergau passion play
		Oberammergau’s Passion Play, performed in the summer every 10 years, may be the sole reason tourists flock to the small Bavarian town, but visitors discover the town has much more to offer.
		The townspeople are the musicians — a local wood carver plays the forest horn; there are five choirs with 240 members; and some scenes like the entry into Jerusalem and the condemnation cause “goose bumps” according to Blaschke, as some 700 actors gather on stage.
		Pope Benedict XVI attended the play twice, once in 1980 as Archbishop of Munich and Freising, and in 2000 with his brother Georg.
	www.catholicherald.com /articles/06articles/oberammergau.htm (1043 words)

	Trip to controversial play
		The people of Oberammergau began presenting the play in 1634 to keep a vow that town leaders made to God, as part of an effort to save the village from the Black Plague, which was decimating Europe at that time.
		The text of the play is based on an 1860s text written by the Rev. Alois Daisenberger, a Catholic priest, but the play is not sanctioned by the Catholic Church.
		Fisher said the play, despite the changes the reformers have been able to achieve, "doesn't pass the muster" of the Vatican's "Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis of the Roman Catholic Church" of 1985.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/991203/trip.shtml (1330 words)

	Oberammergau Passion Play Oberammergau 2010 - Millenium Passion Play - all major tour operators including Globus and ...
		Oberammergau Passion Play Oberammergau 2010 - Millenium Passion Play - all major tour operators including Globus and Comsos tours, Trafalgar tours, Insight tours,Collette, Tauck, Maupintour and more.
		The play takes place in a covered auditorium with an open-air stage, built in 1930 to insure performance regardless of weather conditions.
		The Passion Play is performed every 10 years in the city of Oberammergau, Germany.
	www.passionplaytours.com (684 words)

	The United Church Observer > Archives: June 99 > Family > For non-custodial parents, "Who am I now?" ...
		In 1633, the tiny village of Oberammergau, in the Bavarian Alps, was facing death.
		Apparently, in next yearís play Jesus is to be portrayed as an influential Jewish teacher; Jesus, Mary and the Apostles as Jews firmly located in their own traditions.
		When Torontoís Tafelmusik presented Bachís St. John Passion, they had a statement about the sensitive interpretation of the text, and in the same year gave a concert at a synagogue instead of their usual venue in a church.
	www.math.toronto.edu /mendelso/OberammergauDialogue.html (1167 words)

	Recommended Changes in the Oberammergau Passion Play after 1984
		The critiques leveled at the text of the play by friendly voices from across the sea are not those of Christians whose sole concern is the sensitivities of Jews.
		Hence, these words should be cut from the Passion Play text, for the Play does not purport to be a verbatim quotation of the gospels (though the gospels should not be contradicted by the Play text).
		Consequently, the play does well to present scenes intended to excite the viewers' sympathy for the suffering just one (for that is what the evangelists did); but it needs to be very careful about the theology of redemption it supplies from a later time.
	ecumene.org /SHOAH/oberammer.htm (9457 words)

	Oberammergau Passion Play Removes Negative Jewish Images. [Free Republic]
		OBERAMMERGAU, Germany (CWNews.com) - The millennial version of Oberammergau's once-per-decade Passion Play includes more of Jesus' Jewishness and less vitriol against Jews, according to the producers and representatives of Jewish groups on Sunday.
		Among the revisions included in the latest version are a group of dissenting Jews crying "Set him free!" as Temple leaders cry "Crucify him!" during the trial of Jesus and the emphasis of Jesus as rabbi as he celebrates the Passover seder with the apostles at the Last Supper.
		And that is why the passion play rewrite should be considered in the same light.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a392aade26cb4.htm (2223 words)

	Mel Gibson's Passion: Ingrid Shafer's Reflections
		I came to the conclusion that passion plays should never be presented without placing the genre of passion play into historical context and paying careful attention to the potential dangers of including elements that can pit Christians against Jews.
		Given the global reputation of Oberammergau, we assumed that the years of collaborative efforts that had gone into this production would not only be reflected in the Year 2000 season but would represent a major step toward encouraging historically accurate and theologically nuanced depictions of the Passion of the Jew Jesus all over the world.
		Gibson’s interpretation of the Passion was on its way toward becoming a global Oberammergau, infinitely more potent than the original, a grand spectacle that required no travel and could be experienced by anyone anywhere on earth with access to a movie theater and, eventually, a DVD player.
	ecumene.org /SHOAH/Mel_Gibson's_Passion_Shafer.html (1684 words)

	Oberammergau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 2000, nearly half of the town's 5,000 residents participated in the fortieth Oberammergau Passion Play, which drew nearly a half million tourists from around the world.
		Oberammergau, in particular, had been a source of tangible pain.
		In Passion plays, a difficult forum for conveying the theological nuance of humanity's collective culpability, the Jews have often become an inviting target.
	dks.thing.net /Oberammergau.html (1029 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. FEATURE: Oberammergau's Passion Play. May 26, 2000 \| PBS
		PAUL MILLER: Passion plays, telling the story of the final days of Jesus' life, the crucifixion and the resurrection, go back 800 years and were common in Bavaria and the rest of Europe.
		But in the small village of Oberammergau, tucked in an Alpine valley 50 miles southwest of Munich, the Passion Play remains a tradition that involves a cast of more than 2,000.
		That is why Jewish leaders worry about the contents of a play in a little village in the Bavarian Alps and why some Christians wonder if attempts at relevancy have gone too far.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week339/feature.html (974 words)

	The Play that Carries a Plague
		If some hold that the play is not for such eyes but for the eyes of faith, I reply that in matters of religious art, as in other matters, we have the injunction to be harmless as doves but wise as serpents.
		In Germany the discussion was intensified by the fact that the opening of the play coincided with a meeting of the Society for Christian-Jewish Co-operation, which issued statements criticizing the play and suggested that a committee consisting of a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew be formed to advise on revisions of the text.
		The playing of the Passion as a spectacle for vast audiences is in itself an offense, since it leads to detachment.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=464 (2750 words)

	Trafalgar Tours - Oberammergau - do not edit
		Its history stems from 1632 when Oberammergau was gripped by a deadly plague which killed almost half of the town's population.
		Tradition dictates that the play's cast of thousands is drawn from all walks of life from within the village.
		The next Passion Play will take place in 2010 and the event is already attracting worshippers from around the globe.
	www.trafalgar.com /CAN/oberammergau (489 words)

	Oberammergau - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Oberammergau is famous for the Passion play performed there every 10 years (most recently in 2000), originally (1634) in fulfillment of a vow made during a plague in 1633.
		Two operators caught in debacle over missing Passion Play tickets.
		Profile: Passion play in Bavarian village of Oberammergau
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Oberamme.html (248 words)

	Oberammergau 2000: Passion Play Plus
		The people of Oberammergau took a solemn oath: if God spared them, they would present a day long play depicting the last week in the life of Christ.
		Against a beautiful backdrop of towering Alpine mountains, the play was performed on an open-air stage before a covered auditorium which was filled with 5000 visitors from all over the world.
		With lingering memories of the Passion Play, so many cities and churches, our friends from Michigan and our host Raoul, we bade farewell to them all as we transferred to the airport for our flights back to Chicago and our motorcoach return to Milwaukee and Delafield.
	www.ctkdelafield.org /oberammergau.php (1184 words)

	Alexander Oberammergau
		The play was first performed in 1634 in fulfillment of a religious vow, and in recent memory has been performed every ten years, four times a week from late May to early October, with a continual maturation of its narrative, its musical and dramatic content through the years.
		He lived the way the Eternal One envisioned human life from the beginning.” As enacted in 2000, the Passion Play was not intended to be primarily the record of an historic event, but rather to reveal the basic spiritual truths which can and should underline all human relationships.
		The Passion Play reminded us that was not likely the case, faith and human nature being what it is, friend and foe were always present.
	www.congregationalist.org /Archivesold/Nov_00/Alexander.html (1413 words)

	Loney's Show Notes
		Beginning with the 1960 performances—when the Passion Play was still eight hours long—local attempts were made to overcome such objections.
		Still, anyone playing Jesus has to be a bit of a masochist, with all the torments the actor has to endure.
		Oberammergau and not far distant Füssen are planning to help each other welcome the increasing numbers of tourists coming to the Bavarian Alps in all four seasons for sports, relaxation, and folk-crafts & culture.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /lt00081t.htm (2609 words)

	Oberammergau near Garmisch near Neuschwanstein und Linderhof Passion Play - The Myth of Oberammergau alive, near ...
		Oberammergau near Garmisch near Neuschwanstein und Linderhof Passion Play - The Myth of Oberammergau alive, near Neuschwanstein
		Open-minded - it is here that the famous Passion Play is performed every ten years.
		It was in the Ammer Valley that he built his fairytale palace, Linderhof, with its huge fountain and Swan Grotto.
	www.neuschwanstein-country.net /hotels/Oberammergau/en-oberam.htm (235 words)

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