Anastasia Wolkenstein
Anastasia Wolkenstein lives and works in Regensburg. She is the owner of a booking agency for contemporary jazz, represents her artists worldwide and has twice been a member of the main jury of the German Jazz Award, which honors national and international artists. In 2023, she founded and organized the International Jazz Festival Sparks & Visions for the first time, which has been held in January at Theater Regensburg ever since and of which she is also the artistic director. In 2023 and 2024 she was program director of the International Festival Jazz&TheCity in Salzburg.
Booking
Maxim Frischmann
Maxim is a Berlin-based saxophonist, composer and bandleader who works at the intersection of jazz, beats and electronic music. He grew up in Munich, completed his bachelor’s degree in jazz in Leipzig and his master’s degree in Switzerland. In addition to his artistic activities, Maxim has also been active in the music industry for several years, gaining valuable experience at Deutsche Grammophon (Universal Music Group) and currently as label and product manager at the independent jazz label Heartcore Records. He is therefore all the more pleased to now also support the Wolkenstein agency in the area of booking and to contribute his many years of experience and his deep understanding of the professional music scene.
Booking
Yannick Benavides
Yannick is an audiovisual artist, film producer and director with a focus on music and content production. After studying music and media at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, he worked freelance in film, advertising and art – including as co-founder of the music video format “away from stage sessions” (2020-2022).
Since the end of 2025, he has been working as a freelance booking agent for the jazz music agency Wolkenstein, where he looks after the markets in the Benelux countries, France, Italy and Spain. His intercultural expertise (German, English, French, Spanish) and experience in the music industry make him a versatile mediator between artists and international markets.
Production
Bernhard Hörwick
Bernhard knows the cultural industry not only as a production manager at the Wolkenstein agency and various festivals, but also as a long-standing promoter and booker. After studying musicology in Vienna and Bremen, he worked at Handshake Booking in Berlin before returning to his home town of Augsburg, where he managed the Jazzclub Augsburg. He has been producing for Anastasia Wolkenstein since 2023 and enjoys spending the rest of his time outdoors.
