Posted on 06/16/2015 7:31:31 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The new Muslim co-leader of Germany's Oberammergau Passion Play is expected to bring a new perspective to the centuries-old Christian tradition, the play's chief director said Tuesday.
Late on Monday, Director Christian Stueckl officially introduced Abdullah Kenan Karaca as his co-leader in staging the 2020 edition of the play, which tells the Christian story of Jesus' suffering and crucifixion once every 10 years in a tradition stretching back to 1634.
"A new generation needs to come in," Stueckle said. "Of course he will look at it from a different vantage point."
The 26-year-old Karaca, a native of Oberammergau born to Turkish parents, performed on stage in the Passion Play himself as a child in 2000 and says his goal as co-director is to convey the same feeling for the play that he had as a child.
"We have the chance each time to tell the story in a new way," said Stueckl, who will direct the performance for the fourth time since 1990.
Some 500,000 people watch the Oberammergau Passion Play each time it is put on in the Bavarian Alpine village.
The play is traditionally put on by the villagers and is acted out on open-air stages, with local amateurs acting in all the parts. Its origins lie in post-plague religiosity as an attempt to ward off any return of the disease.
What the heck is “religiosity”?
There goes the neighborhood.
they’ll get Mohammed in there somehow.
There goes the Christianity from swords of devil’s cult!
Just as muslims steal everything else of cultural significance. They’ve never had an original though across history.
I thought muslims say they are offended by any portrayal of the prophets of Islam.
The Jews in the Passion play have been depicted in a bad light for centuries.
Just think what a Mohammedan director will add to the negative image of Jews as Christ-killers. Jesus will of course become a non-Jew under Muslim revisionism.
Lebe wohl, Deutschland!
The Muslim perspective on the crucifixion is that it never happened, that Jesus fainted or something.
Muzzies believe that Jesus was never crucified but an imposter was, to fool the Jews.
And the muzzie `jesus’ will return on the last day to smash all the crosses and kill all the Jews.
Let’s see director Achmed write THAT into the Oberammergau play!
I guess I must have missed it, but is there some kind of contest going on in Europe to see who can be the most servile to the islamists?
And even the islamists must be amazed that the officials actually agreed to this "co-leader" thing.
The Jews in the gospel tellings of the passion week and pretty much the entirety of the three year period of Christ's ministry are depicted in a bad light.
But yes, Christian society has for much of two millennia depicted Jews (undeservedly) in a bad light.
Perhaps visitors to Oberammergau will now get to see both Jews and Jesus in a bad light, and perhaps Christ decapitated instead of crucified. Maybe some audience members too.
Let me guess: in the finale, the actors will run from the stage into the audience and kill everyone who cannot recite a passage from the Koran.
My family and I used to go to a thing called the Christmas Revels, which is put on in a bunch of east coast cities by a troupe out of New England. Every year they had a different cultural theme of Christmas songs and dances, like Scottish, Appalachian, Victorian England, etc . Tickets were pretty expensive, but it was our family gift to ourselves. We went for many years.
The year that 9/11 happened, it was supposed to be French traditions. Not only did they do a skit in which they paraded a ghastly sarcophagus of a dead saint around the dark stage with no mention whatsoever of Christ, they also inserted a muslim call to prayer acted out as if in French Algeria. We got up and left, sent a blistering email to the producers, and have never attended again.
wth would the germans have a muslim co-director of the Passion play?
muslims do not believe in the divinity of Christ, but see him as an inferior prophet who probably deserved to die horribly for presuming to be a son of allah who has no sons.
There goes the passion in the passion play
Not really—this is a major misunderstanding. All the apostles, disciples and followers of Jesus during His time on earth were Jews, and so were many adherents of the early church after His resurrection. It was the Jewish government that opposed him, the Sanhedren. Whenever people are in power, they have a responsibility to resist a sudden change of their basic teachings, and resistance was natural. Without His crucifixion, we would not be saved.
So, to lump all Jews of the time under the same words applied to the leaders' political and theological opposition to Jesus would be like judging all Americans by the Obama and Clinton government appointees.
The “Muslim perspective” around the crucifixion is rather strange.
They don’t deny that Jesus presented himself alive and whole after the crucifixion,
but they do deny that He died on the cross.
Either it wasn’t Him or He was “switched out” or something.
I see this from the perspective that Islam is Satan’s religion on earth. Satan was defeated when Christ died, so THAT is the very part they seek to deny.
True. Nevertheless...
what an odd religion..
What the hell is a bearded savage perspective? Chopping heads, raping women, burning alive?
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