Year of foundation: 1922

Last performance: 2019

Next performance: 2019

Playing interval: Every 10 years

Performances per interval: 22

Venue type: Indoor stage

Number of contributors: 500

Website: www.kolping-neumarkt.de

E-Mail: info@kolping-neumarkt.de

The Neumarkt Passion plays were called into being by a Capuchin order in the framework of recatholization of the Upper Palatinate. During the Age of Enlightenment the citizens of Neumarkt were forbidden to perform their beloved Passion play. The text was lost after that. After World War I., members of the Catholic journeymen’s association revived the Neumarkt Passion plays. But the circumstances of the time interrupted the plan to perform the Plays every 5 years. Only in 1959 or 1964 did the Kolping family of Neumarkt perform the Passion plays again, using German Mayr’s text. After the performances in 1984 and 1989, deputy headmaster Hans G. Hirn subjected the Play to a thorough readaption for the 1999 and 2009 season. After the last performance of the Neumarkt Passion plays of 1999, that was completely sold out just the 18 previous performances, the cast decided to realise the Plays again 10 years later. Thus, the Passion plays are being performed again from 28th February until 10th April 2009.

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