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NUEJAZZ Festival

17 October to 4 November 2025

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German Jazz Prize 2024 for Festival of the Year?

Sounds like NUREMBERG!

The NUEJAZZ Festival in Nuremberg counts as one of the most innovative jazz festivals in Germany and was awarded with the German Jazz Prize 2024 as “Festival of the Year”. With a courageous and cross-genre program, it brings national and international stars and exciting newcomers to the stage each year. With its creative and high-quality program design and the support of young talent, the NUEJAZZ Festival sets impulses for the jazz scene in Germany and beyond.

 

The Story: “We Are Sexier Than a Normal Jazz Festival”

Since its founding in 2013, the NUEJAZZ Festival has established itself at one of the most exciting and successful points of contact for modern jazz. Each year it brings a mix of international newcomers on the stage and widens the borders of the genre. Nuremberg, known for its long jazz tradition – the Jazz Studio Nuremberg is one of the oldest and most respected jazz addresses in Germany – had no festival of this type before NUEJAZZ. NUEJAZZ fills this gap and gives the city a platform for innovative jazz, which often integrates electronic sounds, hip-hop beats and creative experiments. The festival was brought to life by Frank Wuppinger and Marco Kühnl, who organize it until today. Locations like the Kulturwerkstatt auf AEG, the Z-Bau – which Wuppinger describes as “modern opera” – and the E-Werk contribute their industrial charm to the festival’s unique atmosphere.

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The Music: Modern & Cross Genre

The NUEJAZZ Festival stands for a one-of-a-kind musical journey. Jazz is not just a fixed style for the festival, but a lively, always developing and changing music form, which overcomes cultural and social borders and is the basis of many other music styles. Fed from blues and the pain of slavery, jazz is, above all, full of stories, which also speak of injustice and marginalization. Therefore it requires not only musicians who have mastered their skills, but those who also have a deeper story to tell. “We want to elucidate, represent, pull people along and give the artists a voice and a place to do so”, as the vision behind the festival.

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Good to Know

Events for children (NUEJAZZ for Kids) during the festivals 

Awarding of the NUECOMER Jazz Awards in cooperation with the Hochschule für Music |

Comprehensive companion program of workshops and jam sessions 

Won the 2024 German Jazz Prize for “Festival of the Year”

Interview with Festival Director Frank Wuppinger

Frank Wuppinger is a professional musician, culture manager, teacher and founder of the NUEJAZZ Festival. In addition to ca. 50 gigs each year and music instruction at the Fachoberschule Fürth, the jazz guitarist manages the annual NUEJAZZ Festival. His tie to the festival are revealed in an interview.

Details

NUEJAZZ fans say:

Prof. Dr. Max Ackermann: “For me, this is one of the nicest festival that I have visited in my life. Especially because it is imbued with design. One notices how much love is hidden in the details.”

Prof. Rainer Kotzian: “When you look at the audience, you immediately recognize the diversity there. Young to old to middle and from everywhere. What I find particularly impressive – and what in the end is also a new field of experimentation and learning – is the variety of the program. There’s something for every age here.”

Maike, aged 34: “Here, modern jazz meets electronic beats and creative experimentation. It’s always exciting to experience something new.”

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Information

NUEJAZZ Festival
90429 Nürnberg
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Opening hours

17 October to 4 November 2025

Prices

30-50€ / day ticket and selected free events

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