Christoph Nix

Christoph Nix (born October 26, 1954 in Ehringshausen ) is a German lawyer and theater director . Since the 2006/2007 season, Nix has been the artistic director of the Stadttheater Konstanz .

Live and act

jurist

After graduating from high school in 1973 in Herborn , Christoph Nix studied law and political science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . After completing his legal clerkship at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court , he passed the second state examination in 1985 . 1988 Nix was with a dissertation on the freedom of association in the prison at the University of Bremen with magna cum laude for Dr. jur. PhD.

Nix practiced his practice in Gießen from 1985 to 1990 , was then admitted as a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Berlin and is still active as a lawyer in the law firm Gerhard Zahner und Nix. He worked nationwide as a criminal defense lawyer , especially in the area of capital crimes , and made a name for himself in the law of retrial .

From 1988 Nix taught criminal law at the Evangelical University of Hanover. In 1990 Christoph Nix was appointed professor at the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences in Hanover . He also taught at the Humboldt University Berlin from 1992 to 2003, the University of the Arts Berlin 2004/2005 and at the University of Kassel . Since 2006 he has been teaching juvenile criminal law at the University of Bremen and lecturing at the University of Zurich . Christoph Nix has over 150 publications and has written standard works on stage law, youth welfare and youth criminal law. In spring 2011 his textbook Introduction to Juvenile Criminal Law was published together with Winfried Möller and Carsten Schütz.

Since 2011, Nix has also been an honorary professor at the University of Bremen.

theatre

In the 1980s Nix learned the character of the clown from the two clowns Bernd Bartsch and Reinhard Kaul. The group was called Freie Theater Gießen. Nix played the piece The Pope and the Bicycle together with his partner Edgar Löber over a hundred times.

From 1985 to 1988 Nix played with Augusto Boal and Gardi Hutter . You are among his most important teachers. He appeared as a clown in the Europa Circus Bügler . In 1990, Nix went to the Berliner Ensemble as an assistant director to the well-known Brecht student Peter Palitzsch . Here he also played the Prince of Sardinia in the opening production of Shakespeare's Pericles. In 1994 he became artistic director at the theater in Nordhausen . During this time he wrote the novel Raven Hunt . Nordhausen became a "cult theater", because directors such as Armin Petras and Horst Hawemann, dissidents from the GDR era, found an artistic home here. Against the resistance of the ministerial bureaucracy, Nix became director of the Staatstheater Kassel in 1999 , an artistically extremely successful period that was politically full of intrigue. Nix reformed the music theater with directors like Sebastian Baumgarten , Antje Kaiser, Jasmina Hadziametovic, but Wolfram Mehring also staged here. Singers like Jonas Kaufmann and Annette Dasch were engaged in Kassel.

After numerous conflicts within the State Theater a. a. with the general music director and the orchestra, with an anti-Kassel citizens' initiative "Kassel has earned more than nothing", with the mayor of the city of Kassel and with the minister of culture, Nix's contract in Kassel was not renewed and he left the theater in 2004.

The Lord Mayor of Cologne , Fritz Schramma (CDU), who seemed convinced of the artistic director's qualities, first introduced Nix in 2004 as the new head of cultural affairs for the city of Cologne. Nix failed, however, due to resistance in the city council, which rejected Nix's appointment. For the city of Cologne and Christoph Nix this was an embarrassing process, because Nix had already declined the offered rectorate position at the University of Neubrandenburg, believing in a firm promise . As a result, the parliamentary group chairman Jürgen Klipper and the cultural policy spokesman Richard Blömer had to give up their offices. Nix then taught criminal law again and became chairman of the Board of Appeal to examine the efficiency of contract doctors in Lower Saxony. He expanded the local office. Together with the Vice President of the Higher Regional Court of Celle, Klaus Wilde, he published on this area of ​​law.

Since September 2006, Nix has been artistic director at the Stadttheater in Konstanz . He prevailed on December 15, 2005 in the local council with a majority of one vote against the Hildesheim chief dramaturge Barbara Ellenberger. Since then, for the first time in its history, the Konstanz Theater has consistently had over 100,000 visitors, an ensemble with 22 actors and numerous first and world premieres. On November 17, 2008, his contract as director was unanimously extended until 2016 by the local council despite staff disputes. In the period that followed, there was public criticism of the director's management style. Because of these allegations, the director has meanwhile been rehabilitated. His contract has now been extended to 2020.

Nix is ​​a member of the Bern Institute for Theater Studies, where he received his doctorate in October 2015 as a "Doctor Philosophiae". His study "Theater_Power_Politics" was published in 2016. In December 2018, Nix received the award for best director in Iraq for his production.

After a public invitation to tender and a hearing, the selection jury of the Tyrolean Volksschauspiele in Telfs decided on Christoph Nix as artistic director for the years 2021 to 2024.

Writer and cultural politician

Christoph Nix has now published two novels : Young Dogs (2008) and Rabenjagd (2010), as idiosyncratic contemporary works, have been positively received by critics since the 68s . The hero of his third novel, Muzungu (2018), is a Ugandan detective who brings the international arms trade into trouble. He also writes short stories .

Christoph Nix has published his cultural-political theses Culture for almost everyone both in the Berliner Tagesspiegel and in the Badische Zeitung . In August 2010 he played Pozzo in an African theater project about Waiting for Godot in Lomé . Nix is ​​pursuing the goal of building an independent African theater in Togo .

Publications

Literary (prose)

• As if they had planted olive trees in the Westerwald , stories. Buntbuch, Hamburg 1983.
• Young dogs , novel. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-360-01937-0 .
• Raven hunt , story. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940737-64-9 .
• Muzungu , Roman. Transit Verlag, Berlin, 2018, ISBN 978-3-88747-362-4
• Lomé. The uprising , Roman. Transit Verlag, Berlin, 2020 (published in February)

Law and jurisprudence

• with members of the prisoners' representation Butzbach (ed.): Prisoners co-responsibility. Repressive Instrument or Instrument to Remove Oppression? Edition Syntesis, Wettenberg 1980.
• with Ludwig Müller (ed.): Political processes in Turkey. Trial observations and procedural law. Hamburg 1983.
• with Ulrich Sonnemann : The past that never ended. Power frenzy, business and constitutional treason in the Brühne-Ferbach judicial scandal. Focus, Giessen 1985, ISBN 3-88349-324-4 .
• Freedom of association in prison. Dissertation. Focus, Giessen 1990, ISBN 3-88349-384-8 .
• with Winfried Möller (Ed.): Commentary on the Child and Youth Welfare Act. Beltz, Weinheim 1991.
• with Detlef Cabanis (Ed.): Brief commentary on the Juvenile Court Act with guidelines and administrative regulations. Beltz, Weinheim 1994.
• German short circuits. Submissions to justice, power and rule. European Publishing House, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-434-46234-1 .
• Guide for ex-offenders. Hanover 2006.
• with Winfried Möller: Short commentary on SGB VIII. Reinhardt / UTB, Munich 2006.
• Introduction to stage law for young actors. FH Hannover 2006.
• Ice Age or farewell to the Protestant University. A commemorative publication. Focus, Giessen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88349-516-3 .
• Introduction to juvenile criminal law. UTB, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8252-3216-0 .
• Commentary on the NV stage . 2nd Edition. NOMOS, Baden-Baden 2011.
• with Hanns Kurz and Beate Kehrl: Practical Guide to Theater and Cultural Events Law. 2nd Edition. CHBECK, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-65122-9 .

Theater and theater studies

• The theater and its success. Contributions to an endless debate. Focus, Giessen 2004, ISBN 3-88349-508-5 .
• with Astrid Schweimler (Ed.): 80 Years Theater Nordhausen (1917-1997). Kohlmann, Bad Lauterberg, 1997.
• with Udo Donau, Klaus Engert (ed.): The theater and money. Contributions to a tedious debate. Edition Theater and Criticism Vol. 1, Focus, Giessen 1997.
• with Udo Donau, Klaus Engert (Ed.): The theater and the market. Contributing to a vicious debate. Edition Theater and Criticism Vol. 2, Focus, Giessen 1999.
• with Petra Wronewitz, Frank Depenheuer (Ed.): The theater and copyright. Attempts at clarification. Edition Theater and Criticism Vol. 3, Focus, Giessen 1999.
• with Bärbel Bojarsky, Klaus Engert (Hrsg.): Das Theater und die Energie. Contributions to an exciting debate. Edition Theater and Criticism Vol. 4, Focus, Giessen 1999.
• with Andreas Seyffert (Ed.): The desert lives. Contributions to a hopeless theater debate. Edition Theater and Criticism Vol. 5, Focus, Giessen 1999.
• Was that what Staatstheater Kassel 1999 to 2004. Focus, Gießen 2004, ISBN 3-88349-507-7 .
• Success at the theater. Focus, Giessen 2004.
• with Dietmar Sachser, Marianne Streisand (ed.): Theater pedagogy. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942449-39-7 .
• Theater_Power_Politics. On the situation of German-speaking theater in the 21st century . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95749-077-3 .

Essays

Jurisprudence

• About the application of the penal law in the Hessian prisons . In: Freedom and Equality , October 1980, p. 113 ff.
• Prisoner co-responsibility, tool of repression, or tool for eliminating oppression . Articles about the Butzbach model of prisoners' representation, Wettenberg 1980.
• Frank Arnau : A publicist in search of justice . Broadcast on February 14, 1981, edited by Gert Kalow.
• Political criminal trials in Turkey. About trying to influence. In: DuR 1982, p. 307 ff.
• Section 121 (5) - or the restriction of legal recourse in penal matters . Co-author Bernd Kunert. In: Strafverteidiger , 1983, p. 121 ff.
• Charged. On the 70th birthday of Birgitta Wolf , (collective review). In: MSchrKrim , 1983, p. 192 f.
• Theatrics of justice. About the legal training of the RAV . In: DuR 1984, p. 330.
• Things look very different inside. About systematic and everyday humiliation in prison . Radio broadcast, Frankfurt 1985.
• Immigration law - political instruments . In: links , May 1990, p. 6 ff.
• Prisoner representation in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. A comparative study . In: MSchrKrim , 1991, issue 2, p. 113 ff.
• For a right to refuse to testify in social work. The amendments to Section 53 (1) StPO. In: Sozialmagazin , 1990, issue 12, p. 38 ff.
• The idea of ​​upbringing in juvenile criminal law , at the same time a review of: Friedrich Schaffstein. In: ZfJ , 1991, issue 11, p. 541 ff.
• with Jörg Böse: Crime levels among students of social education. In: Sozialmagazin , issue March 1992, p. 36 ff.
• The tasks of the youth welfare office - as guardianship and family court aid. Thoughts on determining the location of the youth welfare office according to §§ 50 f KJHG . In: Our Youth , 1992, pp. 202 ff.
• Execution of measures in criticism. House with cages . In: Publik Forum , 1992, issue 11, p. 15 f.
• The philosopher as a detective. A criminogenic collage. In: Festschrift for Ulrich Sonnemann. Hamburg 1992, a. Frankfurter Hefte 1992, p. 844 ff.
• The reason for the risk of blackout . In: Strafverteidiger , 1992, p. 445.
• That can be harder than life . In: Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt , 1992, No. 39 (from September 25), p. 6.
• Staying in court about sitting and other improper things . In: Norbert Leygraf (Ed.): The language of crime. Paths to Clinical Criminology. Festschrift for Wilfried Rasch . Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1993.
• The reduction of the bench. A violation of the principle of the legal judge . In: Neue Justiz , 1992, p. 451.
• About the failure of German abolitionisms . In: Knut Papendorf, Karl F. Schumann (ed.): No sharp sword, because that fights for freedom. A commemorative publication for Thomas Mathiesen . Bielefeld 1993
• Provisional arrest and prohibited methods of interrogation against children, adolescents and adolescents in criminal investigations . In: MschrKrim , 1993, p. 183 ff.
• Inmate representation in prison. A democratic perspective or a therapeutic calming concept . In: Trial Defense Forum , 1994.
• The competence of the youth welfare committee in local political practice . In: ZfJ , 1994, issue 4.
• The rejection of the police expert in the main criminal hearing. Karl Peters on his 90th birthday. In: Kriminalistik , 1994, p. 83 ff.
• Expert and police. A duplicate on Steinke . In: Kriminalistik , 1994, p. 240.
• The judge and his assistants. Appraisal of credibility and evidence . In: Kriminalistik , 1994, issue 5.
• Short process. Criminal justice in the German province . In: Wochenpost , March 3, 1994, p. 40.
• The closed district court . In: Strafverteidiger-Forum , 1994, issue 3, p. 64.
• Transfer of a pastor from his past pastor's position due to a lack of “prosperous work” . In: C. Merkel: Aufbruch zum Thisesseits, Festschrift for Willi Fahlbuch. Hanover 1995, p. 374.
• Interest in knowledge and counter-reform. Using the example of the main trial in criminal proceedings . In: Strafverteidiger-Forum , 1996, pp. 37–46.
• Responsibility for prisoners and cultural work as a means of rehabilitation . In: Federal Association of Institution Directors, 21st workshop in Wustrau.
• Controlling in the theater . German stage, February 1997.
• The roller armor of imprisoned youths is more solid than anywhere else - via theatrical means in violence and crime prevention (with Uta Plate). In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 1, 1997.
• Make sure to do Johanna - for Bert Brecht's 100th birthday . In: the daily newspaper , January 14, 1998.
• The sofa on which Mr. Brecht hung around for a better world . In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 18, 1998.
• Culture for All - About the End of an Illusion? . In: Kulturmagazin , No. 40, June 1998.
• The whole theater must be a total work of art (interview). In: HNA , July 7, 1998.
• Always fail, better fail - on Peter Palitzsch's 80th birthday . In: the daily newspaper , September 11, 1998.
• Theatrical noise non-stop . In: Frank Quilitzsch: As in the West so on earth, conversations with writers and songwriters, poets and theater people, rock singers and pastors 1991–97 , Kirchheim Verlag, Munich 1998, p. 114 ff.
• The East, the theater and their death - in the new countries there is a lack of money and concepts . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 20, 1999.
• Opera Capital - Impressions from Lisbon . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 3, 1999.
• Make art (at best) - Small experiment on the theater manager. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , August 3, 1999
• JWG: flee or withstand, contribution to the Goethe year . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , August 21, 1999.
• The bishop and the informers - Stasi entanglements in the theater . In: Die Welt , March 16, 2000.
• The culture department . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 13, 2001.
• The closed theater. About localism in Thuringian cultural policy . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 30, 2002.
• Can Weimar be a sin? In: Die Welt , March 18, 2002.
• Sport is murder. Against the displacement competition in the theater . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 20, 2002.
• And the orca greets you every day. The Canadian West . In: HNA , April 14, 2002.
• Theater has to be cult . In: Publik from April 23, 2002. (Interview)
• History and Self-Sense . In: Gerhard Freiling, Günter Schärer-Pohlmann: History and Criticism - a Festschrift for Prof. Heinrich Brinkmann . Giessen 2002, p. 411 ff.
• The pearl of Africa. Report on Uganda . In: HNA , November 24, 2002.
• We are sure to find Schenker and the Bremen Town Musicians or something better than death! In: Landscape for Schenker , 2003.
• The NV stage - not a big step into the future . In: Theater der Zeit , February 2003.
• How I saved Tabori's life ... In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 17, 2003.
• Song good? How a state orchestra once wanted to play the international ... In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 4, 2004.
• Art for almost everyone. A manifesto . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 15, 2004 u. Badische Zeitung , July 21, 2004, Südkurier , March 2006.
• Chile - an island at the end of the world . In: HNA , July 25, 2004.
• The soldier and the coat. Law and Art in Social Work . In: SozialExtra , 11/2004, p. 30 ff.
• Tug-of-war for titles. Right to award doctorates at universities of applied sciences . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 26, 2004, p. 27.
• About art and the social. Farewell to the cultural and welfare state . In: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen , 107, Volume IV / 2004, p. 34 ff.
• Bologna, Pisa, Kampala - On the colonization of European educational policy . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 21, 2004, p. 28
• About knocking on cell doors and other anomalies in detention. Comments on the alignment principle of § 3 StVollzG . In: SU Borckhardt, C. Grabsch, H. Pollähne, u. a .: Correspondence - Festschrift for Johannes Feest . Münster 2005, p. 52 ff.
• The orchestra and the conductor . In: Badische Zeitung , December 27, 2004.
• Accident prevention and delegation of responsibility. How is work safety guaranteed in the theater? In: Bühnentechnische Rundschau , Heft 2, 2005, p. 32 ff.
• About the loss of utopia - or the sea in me . In: Johannea , 2005, p. 66 ff.
• The performance audit according to § 106 SGB V. In: MedR , Heft 2/2006.
• Report of the youth court assistance, judgment comment on the decision of the OLG Hamm of June 24, 2004 . In: ZfJ , Heft 7/8, 2005, p. 325 f.
• Happy social work . In: neue praxis , issue 1/2006, pp. 114–120.
• The audience in the audience - at a loss? The theater maker in the crowd - speechless . In: Andrea Hausmann, Sabrina Helm (Ed.): Customer orientation in the cultural sector, basics, innovative concepts, practical implementation . Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 265-274.
• Class fights, 1968 - School the students - Americans out of Vietnam . In: Wagner, Schütz, Laminated Wood : 50 Years of the Jonanneum-Gymnasium Herborn . 2006.

Theater studies

• Democracy in the theater . In: Bühnengenossenschaft , H 10, 1996, p. 12 ff.
• Culture in the provinces - provincial culture? . In: Democratic community , issue 11, p. 55 f.
• Culture and money, spirit and sin . In: Theater der Zeit , issue 3, May / June 1997. S. 46 ff. And in: Bühnengenossenschaft, issue 5 1997.
• Performing arts . In: Hermann Fischer, Steven Reich: The artist and his right - a manual for practice . Munich 2006, pp. 222-232.
• About lost laughter . In: Deutsche Bühne , 10/2007, p. 34 ff.
• Normal contract stage , hand commentary with Jan Hegmann, Rolf Hemke. Baden-Baden 2008.
• Inner attitude. About the dramaturgy of speaking and other misunderstandings . In: Musik und Kirche , 2/2010, p. 78 ff., With Käppeler and Junghans.
• Boards that don't mean money. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 5, January 8, 2016, p. 13

literature

• Ulrich Seidler: Diary: Air number. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 14, 2004
• Christoph Peck: underground parking instead of chamber music . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 28, 2004
• car: I'm speechless . In: Südkurier , September 27, 2008
• Reinhard Wengierek: Darling Constance . In: Die Welt , July 15, 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Nix in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://kanzlei-zahner-konstanz.de
2. ^ Faculty of Law - University of Bremen. In: www.jura.uni-bremen.de. Retrieved July 5, 2016 . 
3. ^ After a dispute: Christoph Nix leaves the stage. (No longer available online.) In: RP online. June 25, 2004, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 28, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ nmz.de
5. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger of July 14, 2004: After dispute: Chronicle of an announced departure
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrich Seidler: Diary: Air number. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 14, 2004
7. ↑ suedkurier.de
8. ↑ suedkurier.de
9. ↑ Nix extends contract as director of Theater Konstanz until 2020. Accessed on July 5, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Theater_Macht_Politik - published by Theater der Zeit . ISBN 978-3-95749-077-3 ( theaterderzeit.de [accessed on July 5, 2016]).
11. ^ Volksschauspiele Telfs: New director. In: ORF.at . June 26, 2020, accessed June 26, 2020 .