On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau
On the Cross is Wilhelmine von Hillern's novel of the Oberammergau Passion Play, published in German in 1890 and translated by Mary J. Safford. Countess Madeleine von Wildenau, a worldly and restless aristocrat, attends the play as a tourist and is overwhelmed by the performance of Josef Freyer, the wood-carver who plays Christ. She draws him away from the village and into a secret marriage in her own world, and the novel follows what that world does to a man whose whole life has been shaped by the role he leaves behind. Hillern knew Oberammergau well and dedicated the book to one of its performers; the early chapters describe the village, the preparations and the play itself in detail. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Yes. On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern is a public-domain work, here in the translation by Mary J. Safford. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern is filed under "Fiction" in the Vinteuil library.
