The Women of Oberammergau
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The women of Oberammergau and the Passion Play have very much intrigued me! I find it most interesting that the standards for choosing women -vs- men have significantly changed over the years.
The history of the Passion Play Oberammergau is one of deliberate exclusion. The right to be part of the play has been and still is an indicator of whether a person is part of the community: Those who have the right to play, have really been accepted in the village.
In the 19th century this was basically not a problem, out of the 1000 people inhabiting the village, between 600 and 700 were involved in the play, “that is anyone who could and wanted”, says play director Christian Stückl. The fact that everyone was catholic, was self-evident anyway. And that there was a special focus on the protagonist of Mary, too. She was young and unmarried mostly. However, Stückl quotes a text by heart about the cast from 1880 that hints that virginity alone was not the decisive criterion: “Choosing the female characters is especially difficult, they are to be pretty, single and if possible talented. This time we succeeded in finding a pretty, talented actress. The Passion Play committee chose a Mary that is the living proof that virtue alone is of little use in art.”
(quoted from https://www.passionsspiele-oberammergau.de/en/blog/detail/virtue-alone-is-not-enough-20191209)
On the 22nd of February 1990, the sentence was passed: The exclusion of women from the election of the Passion Play committee and from the Play itself was unlawful. 1000 women from Oberammergau, that were now entitled to participate, were approached. Stückl, who was play director for the first time back then, had 400 costumes resewed and integrated the additional women into a popular scene. “Of course, it was a run on the spit”, says Lang.” It was totally narrow in the wardrobes and many people did not have a positive attitude towards us, even women”.
Photo on main picture: Courtesy of Archive of the Municipality of Oberammergau