Requiem for the Disappeared

A listening installation for those who died alone and unnoticed and for those who will die alone and unnoticed in the future by Gesche Piening, with a composition by Mathis Nitschke (among others)

19. September bis 22. November 2020, St. Lukas, Mariannenplatz, München

The island of the gods @ Detect Classic Festival

Flugplatz Trollenhagen Neubrandenburg, Deutschland

EMCY spielt Real-World Musik Junge Musiker*innen an der Schnittstelle zwischen gewonnenen Wettbewerben und professioneller Laufbahn spielen in einem nahbaren Konzert Kompositionen von u.a. Claude Vivier, Manuela Kerer und Luciano Berio. Konzertdesign und künstlerische Leitung: Mathis Nitschke

Brother Eichmann @ Schauspiel Köln

Schauspiel Köln Köln, Germany

"Brother Eichmann" by Heinar Kipphardt with JÖRG RATJEN as Adolf Eichmann DIRECTION: THOMAS JONIGK STAGE & COSTUME DESIGN: LISA DÄSSLER MUSIC/SOUND: MATHIS NITSCHKE DRAMATURGY: STAWRULA PANAGIOTAKI PREMIERE: 23. Oktober 2021 From the rehearsals (video by me): https://vimeo.com/600232361 "In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, the planner and organizer of the Holocaust, was sentenced to death by hanging in...

When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other @ Schauspiel Köln

Schauspiel Köln Köln, Germany

"When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other" by Martin Crimp, German premier, Schauspiel Köln DIRECTION: THOMAS JONIGK STAGE DESIGN: LISA DÄSSLE COSTUME DESIGN: ESTHER GEREMUS CHOREOGRAFY: TERESA ROTEMBERG MUSIC / SOUND: MATHIS NITSCHKE LIGHT DESIGN: MICHAEL GÖÖCK DRAMATURGY: SIBYLLE DUDEK A woman and a man. Did he kidnap her? Is he holding her against her...

1 sqm stopped time. Arkadienfestival 2023

Kunstverein Ebersberg Im Klosterbauhof 6, Ebersberg

already for the third time the Ebersberger Kunstverein (near Munich) organizes the ARKADIEN-Festival from May 19th! The theme of the third edition "Brave New World" is a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name, which sketches a dystopian future as it becomes more and more reality in the eyes of some. I am...

Doppelgänger @ Park Avenue Armory

Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, Vereinigte Staaten

With Jonas Kaufmann Helmut Deutsch, Pianist Claus Guth, Director Michael Levine, Scenic Design Urs Schönebaum, Lighting Design Rocafilm, Video Design Mathis Nitschke, Sound Composition A New Commission by Park Avenue Armory In a rare solo performance, Jonas Kaufmann, “the world’s greatest tenor” (The Telegraph, UK), takes on the Wade Thompson Drill Hall in a theatrical staging...

Start Again The Lament

Cisternere Copenhagen Søndermarken opposite Zoo, Frederiksberg, Dänemark

I helped artist Taryn Simon realizing her large scale sound installation. "In a relentless replay, the lamentations of professional mourners are broadcast into the reverberating space of Cisternerne. These sonic rituals of grief include northern Albanian laments, which seek to excavate ‘uncried words’; Wayuu laments, which safeguard the soul’s passage to the Milky Way; Greek...

Samson @ FESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE

THÉÂTRE DE L'ARCHEVÊCHÉ AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Frankreich

CONDUCTOR AND MUSICAL CONCEPT Raphaël Pichon STAGE DIRECTION, CONCEPT AND SCENARIO Claus Guth SET DESIGN Étienne Pluss COSTUME DESIGN Ursula Kudrna LIGHTING DESIGN Bertrand Couderc CHOREOGRAPHY Sommer Ulrickson SOUND DESIGN Mathis Nitschke VIDEO rocafilm EDITORIAL ASSOCIATE Eddy Garaudel DRAMATURGY Yvonne Gebauer SAMSON Jarrett Ott DALILA Jacquelyn Stucker TIMNA Lea Desandre ACHISCH Nahuel di Pierro ELON...