Q&A by Artists

Alex Stolze: Q3A makes me think of my childhood in East Berlin. Almost everyone in my class lived in a Q3A building. What is the first thing you associate with the name?

Really nice to hear from someone who can share their own memories. Looking back, it was more the setting and the mood before concerts – that house was always there and seemed to comment with only its silence.

It felt especially strange when after the “Wende” the facade was renovated for the first time and everything was subsequently brightly painted. The smell of the thickly painted outside walls with the suddenly glassed in balconies, we’ve never forgotten that.

I think working together as brothers almost every day is a great thing but also a real challenge. What is your best shared memory?

Well, as pretty much “best friends and brothers” we of course have quite a lot of “best shared memories” – shared joys and shared sorrows. Some of them have even been captured in photos. For example, a prize winners’ concert in the Berlin state competition “Jugend musiziert”… We played “The Swan” from “The Carnival of the Animals”, really amazing, but we weren’t able to talk our parents into letting us not perform in massive Ecco sandals with extra thick soles and snow-white socks.

But back to the present… We are working on the release of a new duology with two of the, for us, most meaningful concerts. The first, a small and cosy one in Jazzclub Tonne in Dresden, our mother’s birthplace. The other a more expansive festival appearance with our large setup in Prague, magical set design and an unforgettably moving, almost euphoric audience. Two very nice recent shared memories.