Ferdinand Rosner

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Ferdinand Rosner (born July 26, 1709 in Vienna , † January 14, 1778 in Ettal ) was a Bavarian Benedictine priest and playwright .

Life

Ferdinand Rosner was born as Karl Joseph Ignatius Rosner in Vienna. In 1726 he took his religious vows in the Benedictine monastery Ettal . He taught rhetoric for a total of twelve years (1759–1765; 1769–1775) at the Prince-Bishop's Lyceum in Freising . In addition to numerous speeches, Latin and German poems, he also wrote many smaller plays. Rosner shaped the school theater of his time with his works . He was the creator of the “Passio nova” of the Oberammergau Passion Play and thus shaped the style of the Bavarian Passion Play of that time.

Work editions

  • Stephan Schaller (Ed.): Songs, Sermons, Dramas. A selection (= spiritual literature of the Baroque period , 12). APA-Holland, Amsterdam 1989, ISBN 90-302-1312-4 .
  • Stephan Schaller (Ed.): Passio Nova. The Oberammergau Passion Play from 1750. Historical-critical edition (= sacred texts of the 17th and 18th centuries , 1). Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1974, ISBN 3-261-01463-6 .

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