Roland Schimmelpfennig

See aus Asche – Das Lied der Nibelungen tells the whole story: of Siegfried, who sets out to conquer the world, kills the dragon, captures treasure and the magic helmet, and finally ends up at the Burgundian court. Of Hagen von Tronje, who immediately identifies the dragon slayer as a dangerous rival, only to skilfully exploit him as a pawn in his power games. And of Kriemhild and Brunhild, the two dissimilar women whose fates are so closely linked to each other and to that of the supposed hero Siegfried. The result is a dense, almost intoxicating journey through the Song of the Nibelungs – a combination of ancient myth with the power of great fantasy and the immediacy of our modern world.