Word: mayr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night and on trains back to Berlin ran on the dignity and beauty of the new Christus (Alois Lang), the bewildered aspect of the old Judas (Guido Mayr), the rosy simplicity of the Virgin (Anni Rutz). Reported Alexander Woollcott to the New York Times: "The play triumphed even over the village of Oberammergau . . . uproar, bedlam, mean scramble . . . seats reserved and paid for at a distance may not always be had at the last moment without a dash...
...Judas. Guido Mayr, hale, clever woodcarver, is to be villain for the second time. But Johann Zwink, who played the role several times, will continue to be missed whether Mayr is good or bad. For Zwink, a mellow, watery-eyed, lovable ancient, now exceedingly poor, is considered by many in the village to have been the best character actor that Oberammergau ever had. His was naturally a Judas face. Because his spirit was quite otherwise, he used to rehearse his part by walking about town, mumbling imprecations in his beard against the Christ until he almost believed them, became suicidally...