Born in Naples, Nicola Campanelli, a former lawyer, dancer, journalist, and writer, lives in Barcelona, “[…] where life is too exciting to write” (Colm Tóibín).
In 2013, following the publication of his first book Confessioni di un ragazzo perbene (Dante & Descartes, Naples, 2011), signed under the pseudonym Andrea A., he decided to leave Italy and undertake a radical change, abandoning his legal career to move to Berlin, “a city that never is, yet is always in the process of becoming” (Karl Scheffler).
During his time in Germany, he developed and consolidated his literary and critical work, publishing four volumes: L'amore che avrebbe dovuto essere (Graus Editore, Naples, 2025), Sasha Waltz & Guests. 30 Years of Creativity in Dance (Smith Editore, Florence, 2023), Diario di Tel Aviv. Seguendo la scia dell'arcobaleno (Robin Editore, Turin, 2023), Il sole di notte (Smith Editore, Florence, 2020).
At the same time, he contributed to numerous collective publications and editorial projects. These include participation through interviews in the volume Si cambia danza -L'impatto del Covid-19 sul sistema della danza in Italia (Meltemi, Milan, 2022), and the publication of short stories in several anthologies, including 28 notti. Il viaggio di un sepalo di pomodoro per diventare stella (Gli Ori Editori Contemporanei, Pistoia, 2023) and Amico albero (Smith Editore, Florence, 2022).
He is also the author of seven short stories published by the Naples-based publisher OXP in the volumes Storie di libri e di lettori (2024), Colori (2020), Emozioni (2019), Biblio-biografie (2018), and L'amore spezza? (2017). In 2018, he won the literary competition Racconti a tavola (Historica, Cesena).
From 2011 to 2018, he curated the column La mia vita a Berlino for Feireiss das Magazin, offering a personal and cultural perspective on life in the German capital.
Registered with the Italian Order of Journalists since February 2018, he regularly collaborates with OXP— a publishing house founded by former professors and students of the University L'Orientale of Naples — and has been active as a dance critic since 2014 for the online magazine Campadidanza, as well as contributing occasionally to the German bimonthly Dance for You.