Kotor
Kotor , Ital. Cattaro, town (1991 pop. 5,620), SE Montenegro, on the Bay of Kotor, an inlet of the Adriatic. It is a seaport and a tourist center. The town was colonized by Greeks (3d cent. BC) and later belonged to the Roman and Byzantine empires. In 1797 it passed to Austria and became an important naval base; in 1918 it was transferred to Yugoslavia and was included in the constituent republic of Montenegro after World War II. It has a medieval fort and town walls and a 16th-century cathedral. As the oldest town in Montenegro, it is a state-protected historical monument.
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Mixing Religion With Drama, a Play Still Stirs Passions: After 350 Years, Oberammergau Confronts Its Legacy of Bigotry; Oberammergau; The Troubling Story Of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
Newspaper article from: Forward; 6/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Still Stirs Passions: After 350 Years, Oberammergau Confronts Its Legacy of Bigotry; Oberammergau; The Troubling Story Of the World...Jewish History. James Shapiro calls the Oberammergau passion play that is currently being...
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Oberammergau's Great Passion
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/25/1989; ; 700+ words
; Oberammergau looks like the sort of town Pinocchio...jubilee celebrations), the people of Oberammergau reenact "The History of the Passion...runs from May 21 to Sept. 28. The Oberammergau Passion Play had its premiere during...
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Kick-off for the 41st Oberammergau Passion Play 2010.
PR Newswire; 3/16/2009; 700+ words
; OBERAMMERGAU, Germany, March 16 /PRNewswire...April 18, 2009 in the Passion Theater Oberammergau. - Cross reference: Picture is distributed...play in the world has taken place in Oberammergau. The Oberammergau municipal council...
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Go-today.com Launches Packages to Oberammergau 2010.
PR Newswire; 10/13/2008; 700+ words
; Experience Oberammergau with Exclusive Packages from Go...now offering exclusive packages to Oberammergau 2010, the world-renowned Passion...nights of accommodation in the city of Oberammergau. (Logo: http://www.newscom...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Oberammergau; Travel Offers.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 9/24/2009; 655 words
; ...experience the magical atmosphere and beauty of Oberammergau and its Passion Play in Bavaria, before...Itinerary Day 1 UK to Liege, Day 2 Liege to Oberammergau (B, D),; Day 3 Oberammergau (B,L,D), Day 4 Oberammergau to Rudesheim...
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Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World...Passion Plays in general and the one at Oberammergau in particular. Only a few miles south...Jews (1996), is fascinated with Oberammergau and its play. On the one hand, he...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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A sacred promise Piety and tourism entwine during Oberammergau's Passion Play.(Going Places)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 4/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...1633 in the tiny Bavarian village of Oberammergau. Bands of looters from the Thirty...village by, and in 1634 the first Oberammergau Passion Play was staged in the shadow...366 years after the Black Death, Oberammergau will still be at it. The town's...
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Passion 2000 : Oberammergau's Easter Play.
Magazine article from: World and I; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Otto Huber, script editor for the Oberammergau passion play, at the end of a long...reached the tiny Bavarian village of Oberammergau, the town fathers sought divine intervention...ever since. The first performance of Oberammergau's promised play was enacted in 1634...
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Historical notes: A promise kept for 366 years in Oberammergau
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/9/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...accompanied the soldiers. But the village of Oberammergau in the Bavarian alps of southern Germany...day, nobody else died of the plague in Oberammergau. The next year, 1634, the first Oberammergau Passion Play was performed in a meadow...
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Cosmos offers six tours to the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1990 with rooms in homes of actors and other villagers. (Cosmos Tours)
PR Newswire; 4/11/1989; 700+ words
; ...COSMOS OFFERS SIX TOURS TO THE OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY IN 1990 WITH ROOMS...Cosmos European tours to the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1990 will feature...century, the villagers of Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps vowed to...
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Oberammergau
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oberammergau , town (1994 pop. 5,343), Bavaria, S Germany, in the Bavarian Alps. It has been a noted center of woodcarving since the 12th cent. Oberammergau is famous for the Passion play performed there every 10 years (most...
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Passion Play
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...become well known is that given decennially since 1634 at Oberammergau in Bavaria. This was first performed during a visitation...There have been several revisions in recent times of the Oberammergau text, caused mainly by the desire to muffle its anti-Semitism...
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Dedler, Rochus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Dedler, Rochus ( b Oberammergau, 1779; d Vienna, 1882). Ger. composer of the Passion Play mus. used at Oberammergau.
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Schmu(t)zer
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...rth (1717–22), and the Parish-Church at Oberammergau (1735–42), and collaborated with his son...zer also worked at Weingarten Abbey, Mittenwald, and Oberammergau, and evolved a style using many cartouches and C-scrolls...
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Passion of Christ
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...N.T.: John 18:3] Passion Play dramatic presentation of Christ ’ s Passion, notably the production at Oberammergau. [Medieval Drama: Ben é t, 763] Peter ’ s denial Peter denies Christ three times. [N.T.: Matthew...
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