Hildensaga - Ein Königinnendrama von Ferdinand Schmalz

In the organizer's words:

Heroes, politics, love, power, violence: the Song of the Nibelungs combines everything that makes a spectacular epic. The story of supernatural powers, extraordinary beings and a treasure of gigantic proportions has been told for nine centuries and has inspired the works of Richard Wagner, J.R.R. Tolkien and Quentin Tarantino, among others.

Now the Austrian playwright Ferdinand Schmalz, who has received many performances over the past ten years, has taken a closer look at the Rhine adventure and reinterpreted the heroic saga as a Hildean saga. The epic, which premiered at the 2022 Nibelungen Festival in Worms, logically places the two women Brünhild and Kriemhild at the center of the story. The queens, betrayed by the Nibelungs, make a pact with each other against the Burgundians, their husbands, fathers and brothers, in order to finally change the course of history. With intelligent wit and spot-on punchlines, they no longer debate the question of who has the more powerful husband, but take their destinies into their own hands in the truest sense of the word - by confidently defending themselves against their tormentors, the supposed Rhine heroes.

The imaginative productions of the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss continue to surprise audiences in Monheim, most recently with "Der zerbrochne Krug" in April 2023.

A production of the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss. Ensemble members of the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss