Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play (eBook, ePUB)

Tradition as Trademark
Redaktion: Mohr, Jan; Stenzel, Julia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000861839
• Artikelnr.: 67594010

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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