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Friday, 10/2/2026
at 7:30 PM



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It is a story like in a blockbuster: The shining hero Siegfried has subdued the powerful queen Brunhild for King Gunther to secure his reign. When the matter threatens to come to light, he is treacherously murdered. His wife, Gunther's sister, subsequently wipes out the entire family in a retaliation strike. Blood flows for blood, and what once is right must remain so, even if it costs the whole world. At the actual center, however, stand two women whose fates are inextricably intertwined: Kriemhild, who loves Siegfried, and Brunhild, who is defeated by him in battle and in bed. Both stories bear witness to violence and subjugation – and to a deep silence about it that resonates through times and generations.

With his dramatization of the Nibelungenlied, Hebbel achieved a psychological approach to the mythical figures, paving the way for their later nationalistic loading. Director Alice Buddeberg uses the text as material for a theatrical search movement that investigates the unspoken: Why do we continually invoke this myth? What does it tell us about guilt and silence? She focuses on the perspective of the female figures – and with them, the continuum of male violence that stretches from the fascist reception as a "German national epic" to the present day.

Direction: Alice Buddeberg
Stage: Cora Saller
Costumes: Philipp Basener
Music: Mirjam Beierle

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