Mathis B. Nitschke, extended biography
version 12.10.2009

Mathis B. Nitschke, born 1973 in Munich, Germany, as the son of the translator for Russian literature Annelore Nitschke and the inventor and entrepreneur Christian Nitschke, is a composer, film maker and sound designer.

He studied at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium München classical guitar, at the Akademie of fine arts München sculpture and at the Royal Conservatory Den Haag music composition and Image and sound. His teachers include Gilius van Bergeijk, Richard Ayres, Clarence Barlow, Horst Rickels, Paul Koek and Gustavo Beytelmann. Further important influences he got from Marek Choloniewski and Hans-Jürgen von Bose. As a post-graduate he studied at the European Graduate School (EGS) philosophy of media and communication, where he got the chance to discuss, among others, with Heiner Goebbels, DJ Spooky, Jean-Luc Nancy and Paul Virilio.

His body of work is comprised of music, films and performances and was presented in Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, France and Poland, on festivals like ADevantgarde (München), November Music (Den Bosch), Electrolune (Lunel), Audio Art Festival (Krakow), in galleries and museums like Huis Marseille (Amsterdam), kunstraum Munich, Bu nkier Sztuki (Krakow) and in the Gallery Nusser & Baumgart (München).

He  organized concert and performance happenings ('Zeltmusik', Theaterzelt Das Schloss, 1997; 'Faust', Pathos Transport Theater, 1996; 'A serenade in Villa Ockenburgh', Den Haag, 2005).

In 2007, for Michel Houellebecq's own cinematic adaptation of his novel "The possibility of an island" he was composing the film music which is released by the Swedish label MovieScoreMedia.

In 2009, for Luk Perceval's staging of Hans Fallada's novel "Little man, what now?" at Kammerspiele Munich he was composing the theatre music (Invitation to Berlin Theatre Festival 2010).