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Drama

The Ni­be­lungs

by Friedrich Hebbel

Directed by: Armin Petras

Friday, 02/06/2023

07.30 PM - 10.50 PM

with one break

Performance

07.00 PM Introduction (in German)

Schauspielhaus

Unfortunately, this performance has had to be cancelled, instead we will play "I Am Like You, I Love Apples".

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Brunhild is considered invincible, only the hero Siegfried can conquer her. But not for himself, he fights for King Gunther to win her hand in exchange for the King’s sister, Kriemhild. The monstrous deception is betrayed, Brunhild demands revenge: Siegfried shall fall. On her behalf, Hagen Tronje treacherously murders the hero. A monstrous deed that Kriemhild cannot leave unpunished. Their revenge festers for a long time and rages all the more terribly. At the court of her second husband, King Etzel, she has her family massacred together with her followers.

Unbridled aggression, aggrieved vanity, power-seeking and destructiveness - the darkest urges of humanity unite in the German national epic. Director Armin Petras questions the myth of the Nibelungs for its significance for our self-image, for the identity and attitude of our society in history and today. What does a national legend say about a country and its people? And what is our relationship to our history?

DIGITAL Introduction (in German)


Introduction podcast

Team

Directed by

Bühne

Kostüme

Dramaturgie

Musik

Licht-Design

Dates and cast

Cast on 02/06/2023

Hagen von Tronje

Siegfried, König Etzel

König Gunther

Giselher

Dietrich von Bern, Frigga

Brunhild

Kriemhild

Volker, der Spielmann

Statisterie, Otnit

Statisterie (Todesengel), Bühnenmusik

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Press reviews
nachtkritik.de

„Die Bühnenerzählung des Klassikerstoffs pulsiert dreieinhalb Stunden lang elegant dahin. (...) Mit dem im Siegfriedsmord endenden Zwist der Königinnen um Status und Ehre wird die Inszenierung (...) düster und tragisch; Julia Bartolome als Brunhild und Sabine Waibel als Kriemhild erarbeiten sich spielend die ganze Größe dieser Frauen, die hier deutlich mehr werden als die bloßen Handlungskatapulte, als die Hebbel sie instrumentalisiert hat. (...) All die anderen (...) immer ganz leicht verwackelten Gestalten aus der Nibelungenwelt (...) sind oft sogar grotesk anmutende Bestandteile einer überpersönlichen Daseinsmaschinerie, zu denen sie die Mechanik von Königtum, Krieg und Gewalt gemacht hat – das wird in Nürnberg von jeder und jedem Einzelnen großartig gespielt.“

Christian Muggenthaler, nachtkritik.de

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