Passion Play in Oberammergau: That’s why they seem strangely up-to-date this year

Jesus has died in Oberammergau every ten years, for the past 388 years. Almost all residents are there. This time, a Muslim also plays a leading role in the once very Catholic Passion Play. Which are currently very up-to-date.

Two white-bearded gentlemen just made fun of the “newfangled stuff” while trying on their high priest costumes. For the first time there will be electronic amplification at the Passion Play, microphones taped to the cheek. Tutorials, short films, they should have seen how it works. As if they hadn’t managed without something like this in the past three and a half centuries, the old people giggle.

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