Gudrun - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

• In 1924, Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou produced Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge). Kriemhild was played by actress Margarete Schön.
• In the 2005 TV epic Ring of the Nibelungs, American actress Alicia Witt played Kriemhild in an adaptation of the Nibelungenlied saga.
• Gudrun plays a very prominent role in J. R. R. Tolkien's adaptation of the Völsung legend, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, released for publication in May 2009.
• In the 2011 TV anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the witch form of Kaname Madoka named "Kriemhild Gretchen". She has the power that can destroy the world within ten days.

• In the 1995 Freiwillige Selbstkontroll (FSK) (German Musical Group) song "Red Sonja" which was recorded in the studios of Cracker Frontman David Lowrey in Richmond, Virginia, Gudrun appears in the lyrics as "Red Sonja" a triple entrendre for the mythological figure in Norse/Germanic literature, the warring Amazon in the comic and 1985 film "Red Sonja", and a fictionalized failed female operative in the German Baader-Meinhoff Marxist terrorist organization; which in this song eschews Communism in favor of a BMW, new clothing, and cash, and does so from a covert location—an apartment in the wealthy and unassuming suburban Forest Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. SOURCE: FSK, "Red Sonja" The Sound of Music. Flying Fish Records, 1995. CD.