Oberammergau The Passion Play and Its Audiences from the Enlightenment to the Nazis

by Priest, Robert D.

• ISBN13: 9780192886613
• ISBN10: 0192886614
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192886637
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2026-01-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Robert D. Priest, Associate Professor of Modern European History, Royal Holloway, University of London

Robert D. Priest is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he currently serves as Head of Department. He studied at University College London and Oxford, and was then a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is the author of various studies in nineteenth-century European culture and ideas, including The Gospel According to Renan: Reading, Writing, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century France.

Table of Contents

1. PrefacePart One: Making the German Passion Play2. Surviving Enlightenment3. Romantic Passions4. Reinventing Tradition5. Catholics into GermansPart Two: Challenges of Internationalisation6. The Moral Economy of Passion Tourism7. Passion Playing in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction8. Pirate PassionsPart Three: Oberammergau in Culture and Ideas9. Christus contra Parsifal10. Somewhat of a Socialist11. Jewish ImpressionsPart Four: The Passion and Germany's Interwar12. A Plague of Foreigners13. The Nazi Passion