In the 16th century a spiritual wrote a Christian drama in the world -famous Obertyrian Abbey Admont, who not only shows the suffering of Jesus, but also in ascension. Now there is a new edition of this unique 450 -year -old passion and resurrection game.
Now, IR Jews, only: I do the Barrabam to give you single, but Jesus of Nasaret Nemet and after your beginning!
It was around 1585 when a deep priest wrote these lines, who fully conquered his contemporaries and tore his contemporaries: Pontius Pilate, prefect of the Roman emperor Tiberius in Judea, became an earthly judge about Jesus. He releases Barraba’s criminal and leaves the screaming crowd the Nazarener: “Cross it if you want!”
The emotional scene, known from the Bible, is part of Admonter’s fascinating Passion Play, the only manuscript that is stored in the Benedictine abbey management. So probably the author of the big Easter competition from a counter reform was a monk in the oldest monastery in Styria today. The good man should have received the order of his then Abbot Johann Hoffmann.
Gregorianik was considered divine inspired
Now the approximately 450 -year work is celebrating an Easter “Resurrection” -in the form of a new edition in the hands of the former professor in German studies at the University of Graz, Wernfried Hofmeister, and musicologist Stefan Engelels, an expert for Gregorianik and medieval liturgical music.
“Just like hardly any other passion and resurrection game, the manuscript of the warning not only offers speech tunnel texts, but also contains unusually countless Gregorian songs in Latin in full notation,” the authors explain. “The Gregorian choir was seen as the real music of the church. His melodies were considered divine,” says Engels. Liturgical chants were therefore “holy” for people in the Middle Ages.
With Admonter piece there was “Happy Ending”
The idea behind the new version transferred to the 21st century: the spiritual drama must be “bite -size”, so that you can recite, sing and implement it today. The original early high German text including melodies is therefore pressed into the book.
But we turn the wheel back in the 16th century and watch the unknown, Bible -resistant writer, because he can sit in his lonely monastery cell or the writing room in the middle of his Monk brothers.
He has the brilliant idea to share his piece in two sections: on the one hand the Passion History, and on the other hand the aforementioned resurrection game. In the passion part with the prayer in the Garden Gethsemane, the conviction, crucifixion and death of Jesus, Judah, Pilatus, the high priest Kaiphas, Mary Magdalene and the two handed with Jesus – “Der Linke and the Judge Shaben” – occur. In the second part, which contains the resurrection of Jesus, Peter, John and Thomas have their say.
Also included: early “special effects”
“In the first part, viewers were able to hold their breath, exhale in the second part. That’s why the Ascension of Christ followed – and so to speak a happy ending,” reports Hofmeister. The exact direct directing instructions are unique: the spiritual knew exactly how to use smart stage technology and what early “special effects” could chase the audience cold shower.
Light, fire, animal blood, wobbling armchairs – all this was found in the difficult repertoire. The game will probably take place on the open site, there were procession elements, phases were set up, scenes were exchanged, the people who are integrated into the fascinating plot. “The Passion game of Admonter became a multimedia general experience for believers and a religious work of art,” the professor emphasizes.
Source: Krone
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