Nibelung Festival, Worms

The festival takes place every year since its re-establishment in 2002, usually in July or August as part of the Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz [de].

Theater and movie stars like Dieter Wedel, Mario Adorf and Maria Schrader were hired to cause a stir throughout Germany.

In 2011 the Nibelung Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary with a big open-air performance in front of the Cathedral; in the process, the producer and director departed from the original material of the Nibelungen for the first time.

It is awarded to actors, stage designers, directors or other members of the Nibelungen Festival who have distinguished themselves through exceptional artistic achievement.

[1][2] The prize is a glass stele with a dragon motif by the illustrator Hendrik Dorgathen, and it is also endowed with 10,000 euros.