ie Oberammergau passion play have been canceled because of the spread of the Coronavirus this year. You are supposed to take place instead of 2022. The representatives of the district office informed of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the administration of the game on Thursday in the village of Oberammergau. The Premiere was for the 16. Scheduled for may, up to 4. October would have been expected to be more than 100 performances around 450 000 visitors from all over the world.
Huge risk of infection
the basis for the cancellation of a decision of the district office is. Almost half of the 5000 inhabitants of the village would have been involved, to show, according to tradition, the centuries-old spectacle of the Suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. Around 4500 spectators summarizes the open-air theatre. That would have meant a significant risk of infection.
prior to one week ago, the national samples have been exposed to many people on stage as well as the Photograph for the Premiere of the planned volume. On Tuesday, the Director, Christian Stückl, had interrupted the samples in a smaller cast. The managers thought for days about an alternative scenario: a shift of the Premiere on June or July or on a different year. It comes now.
three times
canceled Arose from the plague epidemic, the corona epidemic means so that the preliminary for the Passion. In 1633, the Oberammergau promised, every ten years the game the Suffering, death and resurrection of Christ to perform it if no-one should die of the plague – what happened according to the legend, also.
Not for the first Time in the nearly 400-year history of the Passion is shifted so exactly one hundred years ago. In 1920, the Passion, was exposed to because of the consequences of the First world war, and instead, in 1922, listed. In 1770, the Passion did not take place due to a General prohibition, in 1940, the Second world war prevented the performance. Impact of quarantine: the water in Venice as clean as never PCP effects of quarantine: the water in Venice as clean as ever
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