Mathis Nitschke

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Mathis Nitschke (born June 4, 1973 in Munich ) is a German composer , sound designer , sound director , director and producer . He specializes in sound in connection with theater, media and new technologies and produces his own musical theater projects in addition to applied music for drama and film .

Mathis Nitschke (right), 2010

Life

After classical guitar he studied fine arts before graduating as a composer from the Conservatory of The Hague (lessons with Gilius van Bergeijk , Richard Ayres and Clarence Barlow ). Lectures and seminars etc. a. with Heiner Goebbels , DJ Spooky , Jean-Luc Nancy , Michel Houellebecq , Mike Figgis , Peter Greenaway and The Brothers Quay during his postgraduate studies in media and communication at the European Graduate School (EGS), Saas-Fee, flanked his training.

In this way he developed a strongly conceptual approach. He creates operas and music theater, installations, films and concerts that are shown in theaters, galleries and festivals across Europe. Mathis Nitschke is interested in the intertwining of text, image and sound, music theater and film, playing with perception on all levels.

In 2012 he worked with the writer Jonas Lüscher for the opera Jetzt . Since then, the sung theater has been the focus. He examines the relationship between opera and society in works such as his "operatic song-cycle with party" Happy Happy, which premiered in 2014 - as well as now - at the Montpellier National Opera . His first opera Now was nominated for “World Premiere of the Year” in the 2013 Opernwelt magazine's critics' survey .

In addition to Viola , a short opera in a pharmacy, he develops other opera concepts in public spaces. With the help of a project grant from the City of Munich, he was able to realize his idea of ​​opera as a position- recognizing audio walk in 2016 . In the critics' survey conducted by the magazine “ Die Deutsche Bühne ” in 2017, “Vergehen” - formally a pure audio work - was nominated as the best contribution in the stage / space / costume category.

In October 2017, “Maya” was premiered, a mixed reality techno opera at the center of which fundamental questions of posthumanism are negotiated. In the ruins of the Munich-Aubing thermal power station, Nitschke created a virtual parallel cosmos to the physical real world based on sound, music, augmented reality technology and digital art , in which the viewer can move freely.

Collaborations with artistic personalities such as Michel Houellebecq or Luk Perceval shaped his work. In 2008 he composed and produced a large orchestral score for Houellebecq for his debut as a director, the film adaptation of his novel The Possibility of an Island . For Luk Perceval's staging of Hans Fallada's novel " Little Man, Was Now? " At the Münchner Kammerspiele, he designed and built, together with stage designer Annette Kurz, a 4-meter-high orchestrion which then played Nitschke's music.

As a sound director , Mathis Nitschke sits at the mixing desk in theaters and also in the concert hall for performances of contemporary music, for example in the Musica Viva series of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra . He appears as a performing electronics technician in solo and ensemble projects.

Mathis Nitschke lives with his family in Munich.

Works (selection)

MAYA mixed reality techno opera in the former Munich-Aubing thermal power station
  • Maya mixed reality techno opera in collaboration with Thomas Jonigk , world premiere October 18, 2017 in the ruins of the Aubing thermal power station
  • Offense opera, which one gains the mark, GPS-sensitive smartphone app for Android and iOS, published in February 2017, at the Munich Isar
  • Viola short opera in public space, in collaboration with Thomas Jonigk , world premiere on July 3, 2015 in the Bahnhofapotheke Pasing
  • Happy Happy operatic song-cycle with party, in collaboration with Urs Schönebaum World premiere November 19, 2014 at the Opéra National de Montpellier
  • Now opera in one act, in collaboration with Jonas Lüscher and Urs Schönebaum. First performance November 30, 2012 at the Opéra National de Montpellier

Filmography (selection)

Stage music (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Now . In: Mathis Nitschke . November 30, 2012 ( mathis-nitschke.com [accessed November 3, 2018]).
  2. ↑ http://www.opera-orchestre-montpellier.fr/evenement/jetzt-what-next
  3. ↑ http://www.nmz.de/artikel/ein-plastischer-doppelabend-in-suedfrankreich
  4. ↑ Happy Happy - Mathis Nitschke . In: Mathis Nitschke . October 8, 2014 ( mathis-nitschke.com [accessed November 3, 2018]).
  5. ↑ http://www.opera-orchestre-montpellier.fr/evenement/happy-happy
  6. ↑ http://www.resmusica.com/2014/11/27/une-contre-tous-dans-happy-happy-de-mathis-nitschke/
  7. ↑ Michael Merschmeier, Der Theaterverlag: Opernwelt - Archive. Retrieved November 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Viola - Mathis Nitschke . In: Mathis Nitschke . April 21, 2015 ( mathis-nitschke.com [accessed November 3, 2018]).
  9. ↑ https://www.eveosblog.de/2015/10/28/beispiel-aussergewoehnliche-eventkonzept-viola-kurzoper-mathis-nitschke/
  10. ↑ https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kulturreferat/Musik/Auszüge/Stipendien-Musik/Projektstipendium_Musik/2015.html
  11. ↑ Opera as an app - Offense. Retrieved on November 3, 2018 (German).
  12. ↑ Season balance 2017/18 - The German stage. Retrieved November 3, 2018 .
  13. ↑ MAYA - MAYA. Retrieved on November 3, 2018 (German).
  14. ↑ The possibility of an island - Mathis Nitschke . In: Mathis Nitschke . August 9, 2008 ( mathis-nitschke.com [accessed November 3, 2018]).
  15. ↑ http://screenwrite.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/filmkritik_la-possibilite-d-une-ile/
  16. ↑ Little man, what now? - Mathis Nitschke . In: Mathis Nitschke . April 25, 2009 ( mathis-nitschke.com [accessed November 3, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 31, 2010 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.muenchner-kammerspiele.de
  18. ↑ Musica Viva - Mathis Nitschke . In: Mathis Nitschke . February 6, 2014 ( mathis-nitschke.com [accessed November 3, 2018]).
  19. ↑ https://mayaoper.de/
  20. ↑ http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/oper-der-beginn-der-zukunft-1.3717695
  21. ↑ Opera as an app. Accessed June 24, 2019 (German).
  22. ↑ http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/starnberg/starnberg-bewegungender-liederabend-1.2958973
  23. ↑ http://www.nmz.de/artikel/ein-plastischer-doppelabend-in-suedfrankreich
  24. ↑ https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2743:kleiner-mann-was-nun-luk-perceval-inszeniert-seine-fassung-des-hans-fallada-romans&catid=99&Itemid=100190
personal data
SURNAME Nitschke, Mathis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich