Resumen de Das Tuch der Veronika im "Frankfurter und Alsfelder Passionsspiel". Heilsinszenierung und -autorität im Licht eines ikonischen Gegenstands
The contribution explores an iconic object used in German Passion plays related to the Passion of Christ: the sudarium. Veronica emerged as a very popular saint in the later Middle Ages. Her shroud showing Christ’s face was similarly popular. Its theatrical visualization is related to a practice of piety that prefers a visual approach to holy things. The figure and the artefact gain importance in late medieval plays, where Veronica appears as a preaching figure, providing access to God by her shroud. The paper focusses on the Frankfurt Passion Play and the Alsfeld Passion Play, which reveal different ways of framing the presence of Christ by verbal commentary and underlining the pictorial mode of the sudarium.
