Nico Sauer studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm and Markus Hechtle (BA, University of Music Karlsruhe, 2010–2015), Michael Jarrell (University of Music Geneva 2012–2013), Manos Tsangaris and Franz Martin Olbrisch (MA, Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, 2015–2018).
In Composing Life (2015, Karlsruhe, Essen) Sauer performed a motivational coach, preaching the liberating power of contemporary music,[4] a Millennial grotesque of Joseph Beuys.
[5] Love Me (2016, German Hygiene Museum, Dresden) is a concert-installation on artistic identity, reproduction and masquerade, involving over a hundred clones of the composer and a super slow motion version of an Elvis Presley song.
[7] Lab 317 (National Theatre Stuttgart, 2017) is a performative theatre-installation that picks up the discourse on European cultural centralism by claiming to breed a super-race of musical geniuses.
[8] wwwwwwwf (Sprechsaal Berlin,[9] La FDP Paris, 2018) is the performed artistic encounter of Tanya Wenczel (Australia) and Sauer in a trans-humanistic wrestling match.