Word: mayr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preisinger, who played Lazarus in 1934, is well known for his devotion to the church-a strong count in his favor, said the villagers. To play the Virgin Mary the committee chose blonde, 20-year-old Annemie Mayr, daughter of a building constructer, who is studying woodcarving-Oberammergau's principal occupation...
...will step into the cast to fill the many gaps left by Hitler, war, hard times and old age. St. Peter, St. John and St. Joseph are all due to come before the denazifying Spruchkammer at Garmisch-Partenkirchen within the next few weeks. Bearded, cherubic Hubert (St. Peter) Mayr, who runs the village creamery, joined the party in 1937, and now says: "Why not? It cost me one mark, 50 pfennig-which I could afford. If I didn't join, they'd have said a non-Nazi doesn't deserve to have that nice creamery...
...Virgin and Mary Magdalene will undoubtedly have to be replaced. Tradition demands that these two important roles be played by unmarried women under 35. Having played the Virgin twice, Anni Rutz (who once studied at Florida's Rollins College) is now a spinsterly 37; Clara (Mary Magdalene) Mayr has taken a husband...