Inside the brilliantly bonkers Wintershall nativity

The story of the Wintershall plays began in the 1980s when Charlotte de Klee, now 68, sat next to a priest at a wedding. “I didn’t know anything about priests except they’re celibate. He said to me, ‘I’ve just come back from Medjugorje in Bosnia and the Christian story is true. Go there.’” She had never heard of Medjugorje, a village where, in 1981, six children and teenagers reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary on a hillside. Nor were she, her parents Peter and…