“Hinab in den Maelström” by Christian Brückner and the Martin Auer Quintet nominated for the German Jazz Award 2024!

“Hinab in den Maelström” by Christian Brückner and the Martin Auer Quintet nominated for the German Jazz Award 2024!

After the first two radio productions by Martin Auer & Christian Brückner ” Das Dschungelbuch” and the ” Ballade von Robin Hood” convinced jazz fans, children and radio play enthusiasts alike and the latter even won the German Jazz Award 2023 in the category “Radio Production of the Year”, we are pleased to announce that now the latest radio play of the two “Hinab in den Maelström” has again been nominated for the German Jazz Award in the same category!

Christian Brückner and jazz trumpeter Martin Auer have not only known each other since their collaboration with the Wilden Jazz Orchester (Das Dschungelbuch, 2021, and Robin Hood, 2022), they have long shared a passion: jazz. The production was celebrated by the press. Wolfgang Schneider wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “[Christian Brückner] once again proves himself a master of shading and nuance. He reads the story in an astonishingly unagitated tone, with small but meaningful emphases […]. We like to claim that we love nature, but nature does not love us. Despite the roaring inferno, there is a deep melancholy to this story, which Brückner’s tone and the subtly corresponding Martin Auer Quintett express wonderfully.”

On April 18, 2024, the jury will decide who will receive one of the 22 German Jazz Awards at the E-Werk in Cologne – we’re keeping our fingers crossed!