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, sound designer and guitar player.

He studied at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium München (classical guitar), the Akademie der bildenden Künste München (sculpture) and the Royal Conservatory Den Haag (Music composition and Image and sound), where he also graduated. His teachers include Gilius van Bergeijk, Richard Ayres, Clarence Barlow, Horst Rickels, Paul Koek and Gustavo Beytelmann. He currently studies at the European Graduate School (EGS) philosophy of media and communication, where he got the chance to study, among others, with Heiner Goebbels, DJ Spooky, Jean-Luc Nancy and Paul Virilio.

His body of work is comprised of music, films and videos, film performances and was presented in Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, France and Poland, on festivals like Adevantgarde (München), November Music (Den Bosch), Electrolune (Lunel), in Huis Marseille (Amsterdam), kunstraum Munich 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).

For Michel Houellebecq's own cinematic adaptation of his latest novel "The possibility of an island" he was composing the film music. The film ran 2008 in the Fench cinemas.

For Luk Perceval's staging of Hans Fallada's novel "Little man, what now?" at Kammerspiele Munich he is composing the theatre music. Premiere 25.4.2009 In his guitar playing he specialized in Argentinian Tango and played with Guitarras Portenas (leader: Kay Sleking), Maria Jose Ortiz and Santiago Cimadevilla in the Netherlands, France and Germany.

He currently resides in München.

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