Stefan Gwildis | KulturImZelt Braunschweig

In the organizer's words:

Festival KulturImZelt 2025

📍 Bürgerpark, Braunschweig

🗓 August 21 - September 21, 2025

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

Including:

Sack dragger, sunbed stand-up and soul sensation, harbor malocher and poetry reciter, factory squatter, occasional Santa Claus and Germany's answer to George Clooney - what Stefan Gwildis hasn't been. This charmer of an entertainer, this walking Gesamtkunstwerk of homely soulfulness, original Hamburger Schmodder and a large dash of amused unpredictability.

And Stefan Gwildis has always liked a lot of things. The most diverse things, which led to even more ideas and ultimately to an infinite number of stories worth telling. Almost too much for just one life - and always enough for an evening filled to bursting: "Das war doch 'erst eben - 50 Jahre auf der Bühne" is therefore much more than a concert, it is a wonderful mixture of hits and treasures yet to be unearthed, of images and anecdotes, of songs and scenes, a multimedia, but very analog review of Gwildis' work.

In his sounding retrospective, Stefan Gwildis wanders freely between the various stages of his career, the many life-defining "first times" that happen in life: The first great love with Anna, a story like in "Me and Mrs Jones". The first self-made instrument, a bass made from a broomstick, a "daydream" tea chest, horns, horns, various percussion instruments - and with an umbrella as a reminiscence of the Hamburg weather. It's about the first tire they changed themselves in their father's business, their first guitar. And, of course, the first time on stage - which, strictly speaking, wasn't a stage at all: Stefan Gwildis' first stage was the streets and pedestrian zones of his native Hamburg. A wonderful playground for music, theater, street art - just about anything you can think of.

"Stefan Gwildis doesn't appear unapproachable on stage, but comes into the Theater im Fischereihafen through the side door, welcomes guests with a handshake - and then delivers an inspiring soul concert."

- Otto Oberste, Nordsee-Zeitung