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Pure emotions at the end of the Passion Play 2022 - piece: "You were the force"

2022-10-03T17:38:35.203Z


Guaranteed goosebumps in front of a sold-out house: The 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play is over. The conclusion was marked by touching words and memories of a "super summer".


Guaranteed goosebumps in front of a sold-out house: The 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play is over.

The conclusion was marked by touching words and memories of a "super summer".

His gaze wanders around.

Entirely inspired and grinning, Frederik Mayet stands in the middle of the full party tent.

He chatters, celebrates, savors the moment.

"A super summer has now come to an end," says the Jesus actor - again with a short haircut.

He is still filled with "great gratitude" for being entrusted with the role again after 2010.

The 42-year-old knows that there won't be a third time.

"I'm definitely too old for that."

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Without a mane: Jesus actor Frederik Mayet appears in the tent with a short haircut and in the best of moods.

© ANDREAS MAYR

The passion plays were special for him.

Without question.

Not only because of the corona-related postponement in 2020 and the long waiting time.

He celebrated his very personal dad premiere.

"My children were there." The younger of his two sons gave him a kiss on the cheek when he entered Jerusalem on Sunday.

Real father joys.

Mayet had his official last appearance as Messiah on Saturday.

But at the Dernière he is on stage in a different role.

The gates open shortly before the end

Mayet mingles with the crowd.

Just like Cengiz Görür (Judas), Barbara Schuster (Maria Magdalena), Martin Güntner (Peter) and many other actors who unobtrusively slip into other, text-free roles.

Especially in scenes with the people, the stage is teeming with actors.

After all, the last of the 110 performances is guaranteed to give you goosebumps - even if the house is sold out.

Nobody wants to miss that.

At 9:35 p.m., a few minutes before the end of the performance, the doors on the sides of the theater open.

Other spectators can follow the final part of the vow game from there.

Despite the pouring rain, they don't miss it.

Because only a short time later, the majority of the 1700 participants appear on the stage and on the "ballustrade".

Rochus Rückel, the second Jesus actor who was just hanging on the cross, stands next to Mayet and grins contentedly.

Almost everyone holds a burning candle in their hand.

The last word, the last note sounds.

The end, but at the same time the beginning of a firework of emotions.

Tears flow, the people of Oberammergau hug each other.

Laugh together, cry together.

As they have done in the past few years since the preparations began.

Lots of praise and appreciation

Immediately after the last scene, the audience jumps up from their seats, cheers, applauds.

Even more so when director Christian Stückl scurries from left to right and back across the stage and waves to the ensemble before addressing his first words to the audience.

"It is finished."

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Lying in each other's arms: The young participants are sad about the end of the Passion Play in 2022.

© ANDREAS MAYR

The voice of the 60-year-old shakes again and again.

He is too moved at this moment.

After all, the road to passion was extremely difficult because of the adversities (Corona, Ukraine war).

Of course, that doesn't leave a 1000 percent passioner like Stückl cold.

He thanks all departments, above all his management team around Markus Zwink (musical director) and Stefan Hageneier (artistic director) as well as Abdullah Karaca (second director).

Stückl bows deeply to the orchestra, the choir and the soloists.

Like in front of everyone.

400 people have refrained from participating since the postponement.

But "what's left," he says, is the best of the past four productions.

"I don't want to diminish the performance of the last three Passion Plays, but you were the stunner." The director,

Party until the morning hours

Zwink, who already announced his withdrawal in advance, heaps praise on Stückl, whose best friend has come all the way from India.

The game master is the "source of strength and our energy", on top of that "humanly integrating".

His performance – hard to put into words.

Mayor Andreas Rödl (CSU) attests to this in the party tent next to the theater and the in-house culture department, above all Walter Rutz, the plant manager.

The head of the town hall doesn't know anyone who can go to their limits and still do such a good job.

In the end, what counts on this evening is the team effort, the memories.

"What a great summer," shouts the mayor into the crowd.

"It was so nice with you." Even during the break, the participants pop the corks in the cloakrooms - the Apostles probably had to flush down the vinegary water that they had been cheered at the Lord's Supper.

The party with the band Janka Roo - it lasts until 4 a.m. - "you deserve it so much".

Source: merkur

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