Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play

Jan Mohr is Assistant Professor for Medieval German Literature at LMU Munich, Germany. Julia Stenzel is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Contributor Bios

Chapter 1. How to Become a Trademark. An Introduction

Jan Mohr, Julia Stenzel

Part I. Being a Trademark – Typological and Historical Outlines

Chapter 2. Comparing Singularities: The Passion Play and the Papacy

Mariano Barbato

Chapter 3. Tradition, Authority and Autonomy at the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1860

and 1890

Robert Priest

Part II. Assembly, Community, Society – Negotiating the Theatrical Public Sphere

Chapter 4. Pilgrims, Tourists and Ethnographers – on the Journey to the Passion Play Jan Mohr

Chapter 5. ‘Visit Romantic Germany in the Oberammergau Year’. Scenographic

Perspectives on the Village and its Passion Play in Travel Adverts

Dominic Zerhoch

Chapter 6. Quotations of the Passion Play Form. Oberammergau and the Nazi Thingspiele Evelyn Annuß

Chapter 7. Volksschauspiel as Trade Mark – The Oberammergau Passion Play as a

Paradigm of Imagined Folk Play

Toni Bernhart

Part III. Layers of Authenticity

Chapter 8. ‘Jesus-Casting’ as a Public Event: Oberammergau’s Wilhelm Tell

Céline Molter

Chapter 9. Let it Grow. The Holy Hair Styles of Oberammergau.

Julia Stenzel

Part IV. Compliance and Transgression – Literary Imaginations

Chapter 10. Work on Myth, Work on the Institution. On Narrating Oberammergau (19th-

21st centuries)

Jan Mohr

Chapter 11. Constructing and Staging the Figure of Christ in Passion Play Fictions

Martin Leutzsch

Chapter 12. "What Kind of Man Must this Christ Be?" A Male Body and its Remains,

Oberammergau, 1890

Julia Stenzel

Chapter 13. Playing With Traditions. A Summary and a Glance at the Passion Play 2022
Jan Mohr, Julia Stenzel

Index