diff --git a/connexion/apps/flask_app.py b/connexion/apps/flask_app.py
index be5a26cb7..7346b8f06 100644
--- a/connexion/apps/flask_app.py
+++ b/connexion/apps/flask_app.py
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@
 from flask import signals
 
 from connexion import jsonifier
-
-from ..apis.flask_api import FlaskApi
-from ..exceptions import ProblemException
-from ..middleware import ConnexionMiddleware
-from ..problem import problem
-from .abstract import AbstractApp
+from connexion.apis.flask_api import FlaskApi
+from connexion.apps.abstract import AbstractApp
+from connexion.exceptions import ProblemException
+from connexion.middleware import ConnexionMiddleware
+from connexion.middleware.wsgi import WSGIMiddleware
+from connexion.problem import problem
 
 logger = logging.getLogger("connexion.app")
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def create_app(self):
         return app
 
     def _apply_middleware(self, middlewares):
-        middlewares = [*middlewares, a2wsgi.WSGIMiddleware]
+        middlewares = [*middlewares, WSGIMiddleware]
         middleware = ConnexionMiddleware(self.app.wsgi_app, middlewares=middlewares)
 
         # Wrap with ASGI to WSGI middleware for usage with development server and test client
diff --git a/connexion/middleware/wsgi.py b/connexion/middleware/wsgi.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2b98a306f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connexion/middleware/wsgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+"""
+Module that monkey patches a2wsgi to make contextvars available to the WSGI application.
+This can be removed once https://github.com/abersheeran/a2wsgi/pull/31 is merged.
+"""
+import contextvars
+import functools
+
+import a2wsgi.wsgi
+from a2wsgi.wsgi import WSGIResponder
+
+
+class ContextWSGIResponder(WSGIResponder):
+    """Custom Responder that makes contextvars available to the WSGI application."""
+
+    @property
+    def wsgi(self):
+        context = contextvars.copy_context()
+        return functools.partial(context.run, super().wsgi)
+
+
+# Monkeypatch module with our custom Responder
+a2wsgi.wsgi.WSGIResponder = ContextWSGIResponder
+
+# Import the WSGIMiddleware now so it uses our custom Responder
+from a2wsgi import WSGIMiddleware  # NOQA