Joja Wendt & Axel Zwingenberger | KulturImZelt Braunschweig

In the organizer's words:

Festival KulturImZelt 2026

📍 Bürgerpark, Braunschweig

🗓 August 27 - September 27, 2026

- More than 50 shows from the fields of live concerts, readings, cabaret & comedy. -

Including:

When two of the world's leading boogie woogie pianists record an album together, it's a global event beyond the boundaries of the scene - a statement. With Boogie Woogie Dimensions, Axel Zwingenberger and Joja Wendt present a work on which the legendary, rousing piano style born from the keyboard has lost none of its radiance and spontaneous vitality.

Axel Zwingenberger has been an international ambassador of boogie woogie for decades. His name is synonymous worldwide with this gripping piano style, whose drive and improvisational power he has cultivated to the highest level in countless concerts, collaborations with jazz and blues legends and over 30 albums.

Joja Wendt, one of Europe's most versatile pianists, is deeply rooted in this music - and has always incorporated it as a living source into his artistic work. Whether classical, jazz, pop or his own compositions: Wendt brings together joy of playing, virtuosity and openness without losing the authenticity and his roots of boogie woogie.

Boogie Woogie Dimensions brings together two pianists who could hardly be more different - and who develop a deep understanding and highly inspiring tension in their musical dialog. Sometimes like a powerful exchange of blows, sometimes like a delicate conversation on two concert grand pianos - always full of groove, spontaneity and surprising improvisations.

Boogie Woogie Dimensions is not only a modern chapter in the long history of boogie woogie, but also the path to a new dimension - from the rough barrelhouses of the southern states to the big concert stages of today.

"There are always standing ovations during the two hours. It really is a colorful program." - NDR, Danny Marques Marçalo