Modern performance culture in Magdenau

A new master's thesis about nuns peforming plays and musical compositions in the 20th century in the Cistercian monastery of Magdenau has been accepted in Vienna. Sister Veronika Kucharová describes celebrations within the monastic enclosure on various occasions like name days of  the abbess. This study presents documents (among them, plays written by nuns) from the abbey archives, especially those written by Maria Sophia Gimmi between 1937 and 1947. The study concludes with a theological reflection on the monastic joy of celebration as the expression of lived Christian faith.