{"id":322542,"date":"2025-08-06T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322542\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:59:16","slug":"wwii-bomb-prompts-mass-dresden-evacuation-dw-08-06-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322542\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII bomb prompts mass Dresden evacuation \u2013 DW \u2013 08\/06\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a break of a decade, a\u00a0passion play is to be performed again in Germany&#8217;s minority Sorbian language in the district of Crostwitz in the eastern state of <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/saxony\/t-18967998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saxony<\/a>, an event that has occurred every 10 years since 1995, with the first performance going back to 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Five performances of the play are planned for September, which depicts the trial, suffering and death of Jesus Christ, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/christianity\/t-39413977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christianity<\/a>&#8216;s central figure, the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/catholicism\/t-40079491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic<\/a>\u00a0diocese\u00a0of Dresden-Meissen said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The play is to be presented in a revised version and acted by some 250 amateur performers. A German translation will be provided for those who do not understand Sorbian.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is also to feature a segment in which\u00a0the Lord&#8217;s Prayer \u2014 which\u00a0Christians believe\u00a0was provided as a model prayer by Jesus \u2014 is recited by all present in the Aramaic language that he is thought to have spoken as his mother tongue.<\/p>\n<p>Saxony&#8217;s premier, Michael Kretschmer, is expected to attend the performance on September 13.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/how-germanys-national-minorities-are-represented-in-politics\/a-60727154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sorbs<\/a>, a <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/the-who-europes-lesser-known-ethnic-minorities\/a-17994883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Slavic ethnic group<\/a> that suffered extreme persecution under the Nazis,\u00a0predominantly live in\u00a0the parts of the Central European region of Lusatia that are\u00a0located in the eastern German states of\u00a0Saxony\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/brandenburg\/t-18968125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandenburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Upper Sorbian and\u00a0Lower Sorbian\u00a0languages are officially recognized minority languages in\u00a0Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/the-centuries-old-oberammergau-passion-play-is-back\/a-61782655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most famous version of the passion play is performed in Oberammergau,<\/a> Bavaria, in southern Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Endangered customs: Easter riding with the Sorbs <video id=\"video-61561904\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\" preload=\"none\" poster=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"61561904\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/61523442_605.webp\" data-duration=\"04:36\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/video><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a break of a decade, a\u00a0passion play is to be performed again in Germany&#8217;s minority Sorbian language&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-322542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981946266989068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}