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Talk about the Oberammergau Passion

2021-06-19T16:12:02.977Z


The premiere of the Passion takes place on May 14, 2022 in Oberammergau. The panel discussion “Talking about the Oberammergau Passion - the challenge of anti-Semitism” has already taken place in the Munich Volkstheater. A rewarding evening.


The premiere of the Passion takes place on May 14, 2022 in Oberammergau.

The panel discussion “Talking about the Oberammergau Passion - the challenge of anti-Semitism” has already taken place in the Munich Volkstheater.

A rewarding evening.

  • Christian Stückl has repeatedly reformed the Oberammergau Passion Play.

  • Above all, the game master is concerned with removing anti-Semitism from the text and staging.

  • Stückl has now discussed this with Rabbi Walter Homolka and CSU politician Ludwig Spaenle.

Although none of the three men used the comparison on Tuesday evening - but it may be that they sometimes feel like Sisyphus: Again and again it is a matter of heaving the boulder up a mountain.

“You are never finished with the story,” says Christian Stückl, director of the Oberammergauer Passion and director of the Munich Volkstheater: “There are still an incredible number of false images in our Christian minds.

You have to find out - you can work forever. "

On the podium: Christian Stückl, Rabbi Homolka and Ludwig Spaenle

“The challenge of anti-Semitism” is the subtitle of the panel discussion in the Volkstheater, which is primarily about the Oberammergau Passion Play.

That sounds difficult - but Stückl, Rabbi Walter Homolka and Ludwig Spaenle, who works on behalf of the state government to promote Jewish life in Bavaria and against anti-Semitism, manage a debate that is illuminating and entertaining.

The 80 minutes, carefully moderated by Susanne Hornberger, are characterized by virtues that are often reported missing in public discussions today: respect, listening to one another and letting them finish speaking, as well as a fundamental curiosity about the opinion of the other person.

Spaenle: "Much that was hushed up in the republic was negotiated on behalf of Oberammergau."

But can conclusions be drawn from the history of the game in Oberammergau and Stückl's fight against anti-Semitism in the text and on the stage of the Passion Play about how society deals with hatred of Jews?

CSU politician Spaenle is convinced: Passion has a "burning glass function" for the relationship between religions: "Much that was hushed up in the republic was negotiated on behalf of Oberammergau."

Stückl: "Jesus was never Catholic."

What he means becomes clear at the latest when Stückl tells how difficult it was for him - from the church and parts of the village - to critically examine the subject when he became the director of the game in 1987: “We first had to understand what was wrong ourselves was.

Understanding that Jesus was a Jew from the first to the last day - that was difficult. "

But arguments and arguments have paid off. This is confirmed by Rabbi Homolka, Rector of the Abraham Geiger College, which Stückl honored last year for his commitment: “Today the Passion is a play in which you, as a Jew, can sit and say: It's about my story, about a great Jewish personality. "If you can change this text, which has been the" propaganda tool of the Catholic Church "(Stückl) for centuries, within 30 years - then" a lot can be done in the fight against anti-Semitism ". And this finding shows that the three men on stage have a lot less in common with Sisyphus than perhaps assumed.

Source: merkur

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