Cynthia Nickschas

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Cynthia Nickschas at the song festival at Burg Waldeck 2016

Cynthia Nickschas (born December 27, 1987 in Tuttlingen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German songwriter .

Life

Cynthia Nickschas is the daughter of Roswitha Nickschas (piano teacher) and Reinhard Nickschas (guitar teacher). Until she was 18, she took piano lessons from various teachers. Among other things, she sang in the church choir and in school choirs. At the age of 18 she switched from the piano to the guitar and wrote her first own songs. After graduating from university in 2007, she worked in the kitchen of a restaurant. Before she planned to start training in the restaurant, she lost her job for operational reasons. Nick Shas went with her guitar on the road and caught with the busking on. Cynthia Nickschas lives in Bonn with her band in a shared apartment .

Career

As a street musician , she toured Germany and developed her own songs. The first bookings and appearances at small festivals, in pubs and clubs soon followed. In 2011 she won the street music competition in Geldern . In November 2011 she finished with her song tanz! 6th place at the WDR show The best street musicians from NRW .

In 2012 she founded her band Cynthia Nickschas & Friends , consisting of a second guitar (Stefan Doc Janzik), acoustic bass (Christoph Wegener) and cajón or drums (Mario Hühn). A saxophone (Christian Zet Zerban) has also been part of the band since September 2014 . Together they have performed at festivals such as the Burg-Herzberg-Festival or various small festivals and are still on the road as street musicians.

Nickschas met Konstantin Wecker through the songwriter Prinz Chaos II , who signed her to his label Sturm & Klang . Her first studio album Kopfregal was released there on September 26, 2014. On Konstantin Wecker's album Ohne Why , she is involved with vocals and guitar and sings with him a. a. the songs Revolution and Heilger Tanz in a duet. She accompanies him on his Without Why tour 2015/2016 as a member of his band and performed with him at his concert at songs on a summer evening in August 2015, where she had already performed in 2014 as a winner of the Hanns Seidel Foundation .

Cynthia Nickschas and band at the song festival at Burg Waldeck 2016

With her own songs, which are a "mix of styles from folk and blues with critical texts that deal primarily with the inadequacies of their own generation", Cynthia Nickschas had solo appearances in 2014 at the 3sat Festival, 2014 and 2015 at the songs on one Summer evening , in May 2015 at an Wecker concert evening in the Schauspielhaus Bochum , in June at the Tollwood Summer Festival in Munich. In August she performed at the open-air concert of the Nuremberg Bardentreffen . The Taz wrote that she represented "with her snotty street songs, perhaps the closest thing to the rebellious and eccentric that the festival had in its origins". In her songs, she combines punk inappropriateness with tangible visions for another world and also pulls the listener out of their comfort zone, WDR5 found .

Discography

Albums:

  • 2014: Head shelf (Sturm & Klang)
  • 2018: Egoschwein (Kick the Flame)

Singles:

  • 2012: Destiny (Kaufmann Music)
  • 2014: Dumb enough (Sturm & Klang)

Compilation contributions:

Prices

The jury of the Hanns Seidel Foundation awarded in July 2014 as part of the songs on a summer evening a prize for young songwriters u. a. to Cynthia Nickschas.

Web links

Commons : Cynthia Nickschas  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Bonn woman Cynthia Nickschas - From street musician to newcomer. general-anzeiger-bonn.de, March 3, 2015, accessed on September 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Songwriter Festival: Cynthia Nikschas. Street musician , BR Franconia, June 30, 2015 ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Cynthia Nickschas. wherevent.com, January 22, 2014, accessed September 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Konstantin Wecker and "The young wild ones": Sturm & Klang. 3sat , December 1, 2014, accessed September 14, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Konstantin Wecker & Cynthia Nickschas: Revolution . Behind the headlines, August 28, 2015 ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hinter-den-schlagzeilen.de
  6. ↑ Konstantin Wecker with Cynthia Nickschas: Holy Dance . Behind the headlines, July 22, 2015 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hinter-den-schlagzeilen.de
  7. ↑ Konstantin Wecker and Cynthia Nickschas: Holy Dance . Songs on a summer evening in 2015
  8. ↑ Nostalgic retrospect in a modern guise. giessener-anzeiger.de, August 4, 2015, accessed on September 14, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Germany's young songwriters: Neue Lieder, neue Macher , WDR 5, February 8, 2015 ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on September 18, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr5.de
  10. ↑ 3sat Festival Cynthia Nickschas (Youtube)
  11. ↑ Konstantin Wecker: Sturm & Klang. Concert evening with Konstantin Wecker, Roger Stein, Dominik Plangger, Prince Chaos II and Cynthia Nickscha . Schedule for the Schauspielhaus Bochum ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspielhausbochum.de
  12. ↑ Konstantin Wecker "40 Years of Madness" stage anniversary tour 2014/2015. special guest: Cynthia Nickschas. Website Tollwodd ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tollwood.de
  13. ↑ Cynthia Nickschas at the Bardentreffen in Nuremberg, August 1, 2015
  14. ↑ Jens Uthoff: Bardentreffen in Nuremberg. Singing in Dürer's shadow , TAZ, August 5, 2015
  15. ↑ Portrait: The songwriter Cynthia Nickschas . WDR5, April 8, 2015 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 18, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wdr5.de
  16. ↑ top shelf , Musik-Sammler.de.
  17. ↑ Egoschwein , Amazon.de.
  18. ↑ 28 years of songs on a summer evening , Musik-Sammler.de.
  19. ↑ Die Neue von der Songs 2014. Young songwriters in Kloster Banz , Bayerisches Fernsehen, August 10, 2014 ( Memento from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Nickschas, Cynthia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuttlingen , Baden-Württemberg , Federal Republic of Germany