Jesus comes by bus: "The Passion" becomes a mockery on Twitter - viewers of the TV show extremely irritated

Created: 04/15/2022, 06:30

By: Jennifer Lanzinger

"The Passion" was supposed to be a TV highlight during the Easter season, but the presentation irritated many.

Above all, Twitter glowed, numerous viewers made fun of the TV show.

Essen – It was supposed to be a TV highlight, but “The Passion – Live” split minds after it was broadcast on RTL.

According to official figures, around 2.91 million people watched the TV project, which corresponds to a market share of 11.1 percent from 8:15 p.m. on the Wednesday evening before Maundy Thursday.

In the TV show with Thomas Gottschalk as the narrator, the private broadcaster brought the passion story of Jesus into the present during prime time shortly before Easter.

The broadcast from Essen has been worked through many times on the Internet.

The hashtag #diepassion was a hit.

RTL: "The Passion" makes for amused comments - also Alexander Klaws part of the TV show

You could see the former “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” winner Alexander Klaws as Jesus.

With "The Passion - Live" RTL presented the last days in the life of Jesus Christ as a modern musical variant with German pop songs.

The mixture of modern paint and theologically accessible address fascinated and dismayed, but many Twitter users also made fun of the depiction.

Jesus comes by bus: RTL shows "The Passion" in Essen

“Every child knows the Easter Bunny.

But ask your offspring what happened during Holy Week,” Gottschalk explained the music project to the audience as a welcome.

Perhaps that is why they are now telling “the old story in a new form”.

"Does anyone else need this?

Also on RTL?” he asked.

But she hasn't lost any of her "urgency", according to Gottschalk.

"Especially in these days of war." In fact, the RTL version of the Christ story was very modern.

Jesus came to Essen by bus and picked up the bread for the sacrament at a snack bar.

There was currywurst on top.

One looked in vain for ancient robes.

Twitter glows after TV show - Numerous viewers make fun of "The Passion".

The hashtag “Passion” was particularly popular on Twitter, and numerous Twitter users were amused by the TV show.

"RTL outdoes itself with the staging", "Rarely seen such rubbish" and "This evening will change television forever.

And we will have to ask ourselves why we allowed that!” can be read on Twitter, among other things.

In addition to Klaws, the singer Ella Endlich (Maria), the actor Mark Keller (Judas), the musician Laith Al-Deen (Peter) and the actor Henning Baum (Pontius Pilatus) slipped into the leading roles.

Trumpeter Stefan Mross, "Brisant" presenter Mareile Höppner and singer Gil Ofarim were seen as younger.

Parallel to the Jesus story, Essen repeatedly switched to a large cross of light that was carried through the city.

Reporter Annett Möller interviewed people about their beliefs or desires.

When a Ukrainian woman wished for salvation for her people, applause erupted.

Thousands of people attended on a central square by the cathedral in downtown Essen.

In the Netherlands, the passion format has been running with great success for years.

In Germany, the production was originally planned for 2020, but had to be postponed due to Corona.