Oberammergau : the passion play and its audiences from the enlightenment to the Nazis /
"This book traces the Oberammergau passion play's rise from local curiosity to global celebrity between the eighteenth century and the 1930s. Beginning in 1770, when the play's survival was threatened by a government ban, the book traces Oberammergau's story across the next centu...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Making the German passion play
- Surviving Enlightenment
- Romantic passions
- Reinventing tradition
- Catholics into Germans
- Part II. Challenges of internationalization
- The moral economy of passion tourism
- Passion playing in the age of mechanical reproduction
- Pirate passions
- Part III. Oberammergau in culture and ideas
- Christus contra parsifal
- Somewhat of a socialist
- Jewish impressions
- Part IV. The passion and Germany's interwar
- A plague of foreigners
- The Nazi passion
- Epilogue.