{"id":4670,"date":"2025-06-05T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nibelungen-apartments.de\/rehearsal-start-for-lake-of-ashes-the-song-of-the-nibelungs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:36:57","slug":"rehearsal-start-for-lake-of-ashes-the-song-of-the-nibelungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nibelungen-apartments.de\/en\/rehearsal-start-for-lake-of-ashes-the-song-of-the-nibelungs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehearsal start for \u201cLake of Ashes: The Song of the Nibelungs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen are we finally going hunting?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

On July 11, 2025, the Nibelungen Festival’s latest play, \u201cLake of Ashes\u201d by Roland Schimmelpfennig, will celebrate its premiere. Before then, the ensemble will be busy rehearsing in front of and behind the scenes, starting on May 28, 2025. <\/b><\/p>\n

It all starts with the reading rehearsal. As every year, the actors, author, director and crew members gathered to read the text together for the first time in front of the press. This day also marks the start of rehearsals. The team has a total of six weeks to bring the two-and-a-half-hour play to the stage. The creative team also gave a glimpse of the set and costume designs at this rehearsal start. Set designer Andrea Wagner had placed a model assembled with Lego bricks in a table display case. Next to the north portal of Worms Cathedral, the mighty sand dunes stand out. A video wall is installed on the left, which in turn is surrounded by plastic chairs, so to speak. At the center of the sand dunes is a lake filled with green water. As the first videos on Facebook showed, this may also be on fire. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe tell the whole thing\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

The centerpiece of this morning, however, was a first impression reading of the play, which was written by the renowned and much-performed playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig. To ensure that the press would not be distracted by flashing cameras and whirring cameras, the performance ended after just 15 minutes. Beforehand, director Mina Salehpour explained that she was delighted to have woken up in Worms and promised the press and ensemble, with a view to the author Roland Schimmelpfennig, that they would tell \u201cthe whole thing\u201d this year. In other words: \u201cWe start with the slaying of the dragon and end with the showdown in Etzel’s hall. That was his idea, not mine.\u201d Nevertheless, you shouldn’t expect a fairytale retelling. On the contrary, Schimmelpfennig’s Nibelungen are likely to be a little more abstract, as Salehpour’s reference to the role of Lindenblatt, played by Lisa Natalie Arnold, reveals. Or Jasmin Tabatabai, who has a double role as the dragon and Brunhild. \u201cWhat could possibly go wrong?\u201d asks the director with a charming smile, spontaneously describing a scene in which the leaf in a bikini takes a bloodbath and a sip of Prosecco to go with it. Well, cheers!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n