Pilgrims and Tourists

Mohr, Jan (2023): Pilgrims and Tourists. In: Mohr, Jan und Stenzel, Julia (eds.) : Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play. Routledge Advances in Theatre&Performance Studies, London ; New York: Routledge. pp. 53-69

Abstract

This chapter analyzes travelogues to Oberammergau in magazines, travel reports, and memoirs. In particular, it focuses on those accounts (and they far outnumber the others) in which the Passion play is conceived as charismatically elevated. The experience of the play is then seen in analogy to participation in a church service, the journey is depicted as a pilgrimage, and the reporters see themselves as pilgrims. In my chapter, I trace the narrators’ rhetorical and narrative strategies to make their journeys sound more like pilgrimages and set themselves apart from the set of “others” looked down upon as mere tourists.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 1 > German Studies
• Subjects: 400 Language > 430 German and related languages; 800 Literature > 830 German and related literatures
• ISBN: 978-0-367-61744-8 ; 978-1-003-10631-9 ; 978-0-367-61740-0
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Language: English