Joseph Alois Daisenberger

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Joseph Alois Daisenberger, illustration from the Passion Play program in 1900
Joseph Alois Daisenberger's grave in the Oberammergau churchyard

Joseph Alois Daisenberger (born May 30, 1799 in Oberau ; † April 20, 1883 in Oberammergau ) was a German Catholic pastor, play director and lyricist of the Oberammergau Passion Play .

life and work

In preparation for his high school studies, which he graduated from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1816 , Joseph Alois Daisenberger received lessons from Othmar Weis (1770–1843), a Benedictine monastery of Ettal, which was secularized in 1803 . Weis had written a new text for the Oberammergau Passion in 1811 under the title “The great sacrifice on Golgotha ​​or the story of the suffering and death of Jesus” . From 1817 to 1820 Daisenberger studied theology in Landshut , a. a. with Johann Michael Sailer . In 1821 he was ordained a priest . Afterwards he worked as a parish assistant in Grassau , Schlehdorf and Farchant . From 1831 to 1845 Daisenberger worked as a pastor in Uffing am Staffelsee . In 1845 he was appointed pastor of Oberammergau. He began to write smaller plays in the "patriotic" taste of the time. In 1850 he was appointed director of the Oberammergau Passion Play. First, Daisenberger made cuts and corrections to Othmar Weis' text. In 1858 he fundamentally revised the Passion Play text by orienting himself on the stylistic devices of ancient tragedy . For the performance of the Passion in 1870 he revised the text again. Although be found iambs re-scripted textbook not included in the match practice, but rather its new prologues in alkäischen and Sapphic poetic meters . The religious concern he intended with the game was explained by Daisenberger in 1871 in his sermon cycle "The fruits of contemplation of the Passion" .

Joseph Alois Daisenberger died in 1883 at the age of 83 and was buried in the old municipal cemetery in Oberammergau.

From the late 1970s, parts of Daisenberger's Passion text were criticized as anti-Semitic , especially his portrayal of Judas . The director Christian Stückl (* 1961) has been trying to reform the Oberammergau Passion Play since 1990 .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Oberammergau  - Sources and full texts, including works by Daisenberger

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 3, p. 242.
  2. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Joseph Alois Daisenberger .
personal data
SURNAME Daisenberger, Joseph Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, Catholic pastor and lyricist of the Oberammergau Passion Play
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberau
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1883
Place of death Oberammergau