On Tuesday, August 26, at 7:00 pm, the Henny Baldt Quintet will be a guest at the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Museum! The program includes jazz standards from the American Great American Songbook. The program includes the classic Take Five, composed by Paul Desmond and, in Dave Brubeck's interpretation, the best-selling jazz single to date.

Henny Baldt is a veteran of the Wolfsburg music scene. As a teenager, he owned his first record, Take Five. Since then, jazz has been his great musical love. He reinterprets this music in various and ever-changing formations. This is also the case with his quintet. For the first time, the band leader (drums), Bernd Dallmann (alto saxophone and flute), Mel Germain (vocals), André Neygenfind (double bass) and Elmar Vibrans (electric piano) will be on stage together.

When asked what jazz means to him, Henny Baldt answers spontaneously: "Freedom!" This is the bridge to the concert at the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Museum in the M2K. In the 19th century, the poet and singer-songwriter August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben fought for the realization of the rights of freedom that we take for granted with his songs. He accepted harsh reprisals for these progressive and courageous texts. On August 26, 1841, he wrote the Song of the Germans. The third verse is our national anthem today. The opening triad of unity and justice and freedom names the important values of our free and democratic basic order.

With the jazz concert by the Henny Baldt Quintet, the musicians, the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Museum and the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Society are commemorating and celebrating the 184th anniversary of the anthem - and with it democracy, freedom, the rule of law and cultural diversity.

Admission is 3.50 euros or 3.00 euros for pensioners/senior citizens and a reduced price of 2.50 euros for pupils, trainees and students, for example. Weather permitting, the concert will take place in the open air on the lawn in front of the castle steps. Alternatively, it will take place in the vaulted cellar of Fallersleben Castle. For more information, please call 05362-526 23 or send an email to Hoffmann-museum@stadt.wolfsburg.de.