Anton Lang signed postcard
Size: 3.5in x 5.5in / 9cm x 14cm
United Kingdom - c1922

Signed: 'Anton Lang'

Autographed black & white matt photo postcard with Oberammergau and Anton Lang printed to front.

Anton Lang, a potter, played the part of Jesus in 1900, 1910, 1922 in Oberammergau where the play of Jesus Christ has been perfomed since 1634.

In the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, the social register is the Holy Bible. Rising young men aspire to be Peter or John or Joseph, the more self-confident of them have even thought of being Jesus himself—in the hallowed Passion Play, which has been presented in Oberammergau since 1634. In 1633 the inhabitants promised God that thereafter, once every ten years, they would dramatize the last earthly days of Christ, if only Heaven would check the Black Plague whose dark miasma had penetrated even into the Bavarian Alps.

Check out the article from time magazine May 12 1930 & Wikipedia

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,752526,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberammergau_Passion_Play