Thank you very much! It seems that the (or at least one) reason for my issue was the step up booster on the sensor node.
This post gave me the hint, that the step up booster might produce noise:
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/4796/battery-powered-sensors/67?_=1606408518798
So, now I power the nrf24l01 directly from the batteries and not through the step up booster anymore. Now the node is able to connect. There are still errors in the communication but not so many.