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Stuttgart / Munich (dpa / lby) - The Archbishop of Munich Reinhard Marx has emphasized the importance of the Oberammergau Passion Play for the cohesion of Jews and Christians.
Oberammergau has become a "laboratory for Christian-Jewish dialogue and thus a powerful symbol against anti-Semitism," said the cardinal according to the manuscript on Sunday on the occasion of the awarding of the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal to the director Christian Stückl in Stuttgart.
For a long time, anti-Jewish stereotypes were staged in a striking or subtle way and passed on from generation to generation, said the archbishop.
Stückl contributes to proclaiming and living the Christian faith without anti-Judaism.
Today Jesus is shown as a pious Jew and Judaism is conveyed in its diversity and "no longer as an outdated preliminary stage, but as the root of Christianity".
A play like the one in Oberammergau is a means of changing people's attitudes and ways of thinking.
The 59-year-old Oberammergauer Stückl has been the director of the Passion Play that takes place there every ten years since 1987.
The Buber-Rosenzweig Medal is awarded by the Coordinating Council of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation and commemorates the Jewish philosophers Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig.
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