Not only in Oberammergau, there are passion plays, but also in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. Daniel Mederer and Cornelia Long is the youngest main cast and go on for a few months in their roles, even visually.
Jacqueline Long, Neumarkt in the upper Palatinate Jacqueline Long.
born in 1990. Language in Passau and Text studies, but then a couple of years of little to do with language and a lot of coffee and cake. The first newspaper internship at the only German-language weekly newspaper in Australia. First Station in the süddeutsche Zeitung: The Young people’s page. Responsible for the series “What makes Munich with you?”. Since November of 2017, a volunteer with the süddeutsche Zeitung. Previous stations: district editorial Dachau, Online, MRB, Bavaria. Travel occasionally to the travel Department in the world and part of tests and Bars and Cafes for the Munich.
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Hipster ” or ” passion of the actor? A question that arises in these days in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. Daniel Mederer for months, the hair will grow. In the meantime, the 21 has a beard-Year-old with a bushy fully, his dark brown hair falls in thick Curls about the shoulders. In the small town in the upper Palatinate, he is currently by no means alone – and with a fashion trend, it has to do exceptionally nothing: Because of the passion play, which will be listed after ten years, several Hundred Neumarkter grow hair and beards sprout.
Mederer plays in the piece, one of the last five days in the life of Jesus telling Judas. For years, the Association “the castle games Neumarkt” is active, the role of Jesus traitor is but role-his first major. Accordingly, the nervousness is so short before the Premiere, on the second weekend in March. “The people, Yes”, says Mederer, which operates in a normal life as an educator. To appear in the Interview on the Set he is in his cowl. It is the costume he wears as a Judas. It is an evening at the end of February, up to the Premiere there’s only ten samples.
Daniel Mederer is the Judas.
(photo: Jacqueline Long)
Mederer has selected by far the youngest of the actors, the Director Michael Ritz for one of the eleven major roles. The minimum age for a role to be 20 years, says Mederer. Among the supporting cast are also many who are significantly younger to be but of course. Even a Year of play in the Arm of the mom on stage.
The youngest leading lady is Cornelia Long. The 33-Year-old plays Mary Magdalene. “We are able to reduce the average age already,” says the petite industry. She has a bit more experience on stage as her male colleague. For years, she plays in the Musical and theatre club Neumarkt. How Mederer has also Long for the role of her brown, slightly wavy hair and it will grow. In the meantime, you give her far across the chest. With her as a woman, it is striking, however, is far less than many of the bearded men who run behind and around the stage: Jesus, Peter, Kajafas, the Apostle and high priest.
Speaking of women. “The passion of the games are very male dominated,” says Cornelia. In addition to Mary Magdalene the role of the mother of God, Mary is the only main female role and she was still a bit too young. In contrast to Daniel Mederer, she has not advertised, therefore, simply, but consciously for this role, auditioned. And even though, or perhaps because of it, is Mary Magdalene, a complex personality: “For me, Mary Magdalene is a super strong woman who was ahead of her time.” Long in their role, the topic of emancipation, you will find up to date as ever.
Mederer can identify also with his role. “I think that many were ever in a Situation in which you had incorrect expectations to a Person, disappointed, and then incorrectly reacted,” he says. Of course, the conduct of Judas was, who had betrayed Jesus to his captors, but ultimately, you have to understand the characters as archetypes, believes Long. “A little bit of Judas is in all of us.” But, because he lives his role intensely, must Mederer careful not to be too much with the role, “I am on stage the whole time on the stir things up and I realize that I’m loaded at the end of a trial day is always a little bit.”
The passion plays tell the passion of Jesus. Hardly a story from the Bible is so well known, none is so Central to Christianity. Initially, she had Worried that she would be asked by the other actors, how often do you go to Church, says Cornelia. Not very often. Although it was not much of a religious person, have you set yourself with the time of more and more of the story. “Suddenly, what happens on the stage is, not only what is in the Bible, but a Thriller, an adventure,” says Lang. You’ve surprised yourself, but it is also pretty cool.
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So cool that you can take in purchase to have hardly any leisure time. For this, you will not be paid. Like all of the other more than 400 actors, set builders and makeup artists, the two young talents on a volunteer basis. The ticket revenue, primarily to cover the costs, all profit will be donated to non-profit organizations. In your known circle with some head-shaking throws. Long and Mederer it doesn’t matter. “If you know what’s coming-that with so many different people, then that is very impressive,” says Lang.
in order To prepare themselves for their roles, have a look at Mederer and Long, some movies, lots of books to read, and with the historical figures employed. Before each trial you do vocal exercises, practice your Text. At first she had tried to keep the common Jogging fit, but the time is lacking in a simple. In the four days of the week will be rehearsed since the beginning of January, both work part-time for 40 hours in their Jobs. This sometimes lead to almost absurd Situation, says Lang. “I’ve just written the last of the bills and now I have to anoint your feet.”
Cornelia Lang plays Mary Magdalene. The samples take a lot of time, will not bother you.
(photo: Jacqueline Long)
Neither Mederer and still Long have regarded the passion of the games before as a spectator. Old recordings to watch, Yes the have you considered short, says Lang. Ultimately, you have but decided against it, because it wasn’t important to imitate another representation of Mary Magdalene, but to find himself in the role. Also beyond the country’s borders well-known competition in Oberammergau you will not, therefore, say Long and Mederer.
Compare the passion play is not settled in Neumarkt in Oberammergau, anyway, says Mederer. Due to the popularity and size of the performance to be situated in Oberammergau is quite different. In the passion play in Oberammergau, more than twice as many visitors as in the Small Jura hall in Neumarkt fit, two years before the first performance, the actors of the passion play in the Bavarian Alps media are disclosed to be effective, all of the roles are double-occupied. In Neumarkt In der Oberpfalz, however, there is no Plan B, every role is no alternative. “As long as we can run, as long as we can talk, as long as we are on the stage”, says Mederer. “As a excuse only death is true”, adds with a Laugh. This means: From the 9. March on, it is valid for 18 days, come what may.
And then? “I’ll be glad when it’s over, and then, finally, the Beard and the hair come from”, says Mederer. What will you do then with the many free time, don’t know you are both so right. The nearly five months since the first samples in October of last year, you feel already like years.
a Few years will it take until you can apply again for a role in the passion play in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. Ten, to be exact. The origin of the games is in the 17. Century, held since 1989, all ten years. And quite out of the question, it is actually that you will then play the Judas, and Mary Magdalene. Thomas Fries, the plays in this year of Jesus, to embody it also in 2009.