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i'm in bavaria today in obama. go actually a small and dreamy place, but this year it's a tourist hotspot. people from all over the world come here to see the famous passion play and it's only performed every 10 years. so not exaggerating. when i say that this is something very special. ah, in this episode you learn everything about the oba, my go passion plate, a world hit from bavaria. we also visit the beautiful linda palace very close by can to side of this year's g 7 summit just a moment. a luxury hotel in the middle of the l. o . m ago is about an hour's drive south of munich and miguel ups. it's in a dealing place. very calm, but not this summer. what is going on here?

so many coaches this one's from hungary. italy is ones from norway, from switzerland, austria check republic from germany. visitors from all over the world. come to obama, go for a play that is only performed every 10 years because of the pandemic. it's now been 12 years. there are no actual actors on the stage. instead, it's the people of obama gal themselves. did you see that many men have long hair and beards? this is mandatory for every one who takes part in the play. when was your last time at the hairdresser? flora? chrisman i 2021 sick. that 2nd order is your role in the play years human being and brother of jesus, or 3 years ago off with for 2 years ago, i saved money, the spot,

guys, i haven't cut my hair for ages or was that i trimmed it 3 years ago with visual on to roll here i don't. the temple guard been approached him who play a high priest who condemns jesus. people and easiest on foot were ted. it's been, i know i'm one of the 2 people playing jesus glucose regulations. so there are 2 jesus the easily. yeah, i, you know, i double up on the main roles. i you to jesus is to mary's 2 conscious pilots. it official, can i take his healthy with jesus at pleasure for a long anyone who was born in obama golf or has lived here for 20 years? can take part in the passion play, including donkeys for 400 years. the people of obama go have been bringing the life and suffering of jesus to this stage. it's 8 gigantic amateur play. half the village joins in. we're not talking about 10 or 20 people here. there are around

2000 people participating. it's a big show and i really have to see that luckily i have a ticket. so let's go in. we just have to follow the crowds by the way, the performance less, more than 5 hours. but there's a long intermission in between. i'm really excited. the so called fits in house with specially built for the passion play 4500 people fit in the auditorium on the stage. there is room for $600.00 performers and then it start. ah, the people flocked to the temple in jerusalem. you don't have to be a christian to be drawn into the story. jesus also arrived at the temple. do you recognize him that the guy took a selfie with the gun? not put this house. who is not

the alternate between acting and singing. only people from over my galaxy in the choir. he not 50 mine. yeah. the pension of the participant is very impressive. oh, i didn't . i have to keep reminding myself that these are amateurs and each year not a trained accurate. and there are books in various languages for non german speakers to read along and follow what's happening. ah. but the most emotional moment is certainly the crucifixion scene. yes.

this is toy plot. but get the larry, what do you think of the fashionably? we will need them, we are more really beautiful. it felt real that we went to a lateral anamosa, the link between the old and these testaments and music, the acting, the slash, la morsey. it was, oh great as i brought up yet though, it's just incredible actors. the, the music is outstanding. it's just, it's very emotional. i love it. and what was the most special part of it? what do you think? when jesus washed his apostles, feet moving? absolutely amazing. it takes a couple of hours. do you think it's too long from time to time or it was all right? no, not at all. time went rather quickly because you were so engaged in a moment. you understood the story and they just moved it along. was it was

incredible, was very passionate casual play. what dedication hills pheasant. i asked us. it's our 1st time here. and the 3rd time for our friends and was until we were really moved. we shed a tear or 2 and got goosebumps many times against incredible booklet on glass place . visitors flocked to buses, hotels, and restaurants. meanwhile, i'm meeting in the theaters dressing room with one of the actors by tablets. this is the one you didn't jen, while you were born. and obama golf. how many passion place has it been for you to sit to 7? what youths does wanna ask? is there a dream role? do the little boys in obama? i will say i want to be jesus one day line. run visa. no, no. i'm totally happy playing joseph with intermedia. i played him in 2010 already . it's a wonderful role. it is a constant early. huh. it's life. a beautiful

to biblical figures with nicodemus and joseph of aramis thea, we're advocates of jesus among the high council, jesus for the camps. how did the passion play actually come about in us? and he's lost that he had it out of her, say to the pin that i think might be pissed. in $1634.00, there was the plague and the 30 year war helped. people vowed that if god spared them from the plague, than every 10 years they performed the passion of christ laden will stand the fools of yet. so you keep a promise, every 10 years i am forever in america. oh you said something. and so far since 1634, i went to the athletic vow. did that develop? it's quite a big show, isn't it? not knowing c o, but it's thomas cook. yeah. the my eating 90, the tour operator thomas cook was here with me tonight. he was actually a priest with one, so to long he came with a group it the 1st foreign guest at that time. hope to have something more. thomas cook said, if you build a roof of where the audience sits, and i'll bring you even more people mock, so that's what they did was um,

so the theater is still the one from 1900. 1 young international audience has grown and grown. and so i'll just, i'll implanted it, but it wasn't far and, and what about the beard and hair? is that something jam like or dislike more than the guns for when you need a decent angle that up can i can, this is cut the to the 15th issue. it comes with the territory. it's nice if it's something you wouldn't normally do, but for us and over ago, part of the tradition is letting our hair grow out once every 10 years. i think it may look a little weird. but there's something special about it because i'm half a 1000000 people visit over. i'm a golfer, the passion play. they come from the united states, south america, scandinavia, germany and many other countries. and they all stroll through this small town.

sure, it's remind me of bands when they were on tour and here are all the tour date. you'll definitely notice these colorful paintings from the house facade. they're called listed painting, and you can find them everywhere in southern germany. take a look at that. my name's also taken from the bible. one eye catching sight is the hotel i had to post, which has been there since $1612.00. it's even older than the passion play. and the bus at the hotel, anton pricing also takes part in the performance. many experiments you take part in the play. so why don't you have a beard where it's the long hair of the puzzle pills and i didn't get it all in the romans and the passion play are very coveted roles because the romans were

occupiers soldiers. they shaved and had short hair because mr. hardy on to help them also, especially among younger men and over i'm ago, it's desirable to be one of the romans in the base and saying, i'm lucky. it's not many people over 50 like me get to play a roman. but you me over 50 and play the roman governor. punch of pilot pilot is a villain. what is it like you play such a role to do? to move out of his contract and it's quite nice. it's often more of an acting challenge to play a bad guy than it is to play the good guys or more dole characters until they love a little 15 years or for not it will current. if you wooden painted to dynamic, got on top of that. yeah. and these are on the hill my mind, the euro hotel, you're in normal life and so not pilot at all. well,

i have to make this is how you manage working in the hotel forming list h had i was for them as a lot, so it's a challenging, stressful time. you couldn't do it every year, but every 10 years you have the energy for that. what the good thing is when i'm on stay, i'm just guests are in the audience and that means the hotel is relatively quiet. i pill from august because if that and vice versa, when the guest throughout the hotel that there is no performance. so i can be there working on the 15th unless you, but of course there are all the hours you spend at the liter. it's an exceptional year. it can be quite a challenge, telephone house for a little about that. but it's worth it if i just assume that the 6 months will pay off a lot of it. yes, half a 1000000 tourists come to over. i'm ago in a 6 month period, you'd have to be doing something wrong, not to profit famous bavarian king who for the 2nd, you know,

if you also watch the passionately hooked up, the belief that he was given a private performance after he invited the main actors to the lender health palace, he gave them all golden spoons and but the traitor, judas only got a tin one of the various king louis the 2nd didn't have to stay in a normal place like ordinary people. not far from here. he had his own small domiciled build lindell pellet. ah eve, believe me. even the grounds of linda palace, our work of art there. elegant, playful, and serene ludovic. the 2nd love the area even without the passion play, he would have built a small pleasure palace here. for the reclusive king, this was a fairy tale world that reminded him of our site. in this vestibule,

he pays homage to his great role model. louis the 14th of france politic. the 2nd, the son king, was everything, a ruler should be powerful, influential, unsuccessful. this magnificent bedroom is also reminiscent about sy. theoretically, little could have received his court here like the sun king did at versailles, but little loved solitude. by the way, no prizes for guessing that blue was his favorite color. ah, the dining room is most famous for its table. it would be set down in the kitchen, then lifted up stairs using a crank mechanism. this way lid, vic gathered his imaginary company of the french coat. he's even said to have had pretend conversations with them. food was always prepared for 4 people.

and finally, the whole of maris ludovic was a night owl. he only rarely came here tearing the day. but after dark by candle light, the effect of the mirror is must have been breathtaking. ah, dinner wolf is the only one of let fix ambitious palaces that he live to see completed in awe. obama go is full of surprises. looks like a tree stump, but that, oh, it's art woodcarving has a long tradition in obama go. you can also watch many crafts people at work such as use if i boot the roots of his family business, go back to 1556,

he tells me it is mainly churches the united states that phyllis order books. but passion play visitors are also happy to buy a souvenir even if it's not cheap. after all this isn't industrial production. it's skilled, manual work continuing on that theme of skilled manual work i'm headed to the hairdresser actually had dressers shouldn't have anything to do here, but they are open and i have an appointment here. hello, look i lucas. great to have you send us the syllabus. that's supposed to me yesterday for your time. to be honest, i would have thought the hair salon would be close because people are letting their

hair grow out. so why would a hairdresser, even be open these days, as a long, long hand needs to be cared for to night? and we do trims and take care of people's beards guns, the hair on the upper lip. it can be a difficult job. fair because cannot put your true my hair while we talk differently of memory to talk about mission, but not too much. i just this is do you all to take part in the passion play with ya? that mich been yelp added? yes. and my birthright means i'm allowed to perform surveys less miss image would be muffler my. and how do you do that? it's busy here in the salon. how do you manage the play and working with al bowden? i so it's been been, i have to, i'm part of the entry into jerusalem. i'm at the theater at 2 o'clock and finished at 4. then i come back here to work. when you set it up for me. ma'am,

let their hair and beard grow out. when i'm doing women also have to do this for the passion play home. oh mom feel wash many how to since it's up. yes, i've grown my hair out. women grow. there's too, as much as they can. i did walk with good guy. so gabby, normally i don't have a beard, but i letting road bid for the person play it. how do you think it looks? that's awesome. i saw silva and it's a very striking marketing. isn't that not? what is it like after the passion play? does everyone come up and have their hair cut on english below at us? i sufficient guns and if yes, that's really something special. after the last performance, there's a real run on the hand, dresses of, if it lasts a week or 2 to so then it's all over here and target. i'm done on the for bye. ah gabby did

a good job. now i make my way to the museum. the facades been covered over with costumes, from the last passion place in 2000 to 2010, very sustainable. you can buy a real pen like this. they cost $220.00 euros each. can find them on line inside the museum, this chord catches my eye. it's one continuous rope of hair connecting each exhibition room to the next. all the hair runs one and a half kilometers through the museum. and leave me to close, forked the artist who makes this court out a fair water venture, its soap. the home. how long have you been doing the wash or as a room? why exactly that?

i don't know how. it was just fun in australia. i met some indigenous people who worked with hair, and i thought i could do that. and that is coming up over here and over i'm ago we end up with huge mountains of hair every 10 years. in 2000, i started collecting the hair that performers and the passion play gave me. i meant to be that it gave him home on top of each individual's hair. i made a string and mr. mother. now take that in poll. we talk like talk of war. wow. oh, that cut into the head. so it's so tightly woven that it won't come apart because of the model in the hair of mine and more to live me in this work. this long. of course, you know, your hair is too short, really the guy in this matter just for the late to food so that you can see it eat

. ah, i hear is included was between the 2 years in the tutor. yours is the darker one, is just now you're in the string and leave decision to read. so. okay, it can thank you. close for taking the time was happy felt april. i have to go and buy the food. it was my thought. the look here and like mild rosa. ah, ah, if you're ever an obama go hang around for a few extra days, the landscape is just great. this lift takes me to a mountain the so called quote ins, aetna, which is 1250 meters high. a surprise awaits me at the top with but 1st i enjoy the view

somewhere back there in the middle of the alps, lice the hotels las m l. g 7 summit, which brings together the world's leading industrialized countries will take place there at the end of june. top secret, but we were allowed in ah, rooms with a view. schloss. l mouth is a unique getaway on the edge of the alps. it made headlines in 2015 when it was the sight of the g 7 summit. now, leaders from major industrialized nations are set to meet here again. the script. com is hardly another place in germany like this, and protected and secluded, but still not far from everything. on an easy trip from munich, tomlinson schloss, l. mao's main building is more than a century owned. it has $115.00 rooms and suites. the annex named retreat

is found newer. it has $47.00 sweets practically oh, tell within a hotel, an ideal spot for the g. 7 summit. the sweets were heads of state and government stay are virtually identical. that way, no person is favored over another. and the sublime alpine panorama is therefore all to enjoy their on 9 restaurants in total. the luke, her daughter, has to michelin stars as devises their call. michelle has the foundation is classic french cuisine, obama, and that's my background. of course, but it's much lighter hub, i use very little butter on so you can easily eat southern or eat horses without feeling completely stopped. which is a lot of fun. las vegas all possible the 8 course menu costs 249 euros. and this junior suite, around 40 square meters, is available for about $700.00 euros a night. guests come from germany,

switzerland, and austria, but also from britain in the united states. if you have the money, it's the perfect place to escape from the stresses of the world, except may be when the g 7 summit is on. ah, and here's the surprise i promised you. the alpine coaster a summer to bog rough, super long, almost 3 kilometers. with no problem with

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