

What we want
We want more relief and better planning for our members. Artistic staff on and behind the stage give everything for the arts and therefore everything for you. However, in recent decades, the number of productions nationwide has risen steadily while the number of employees has fallen, so that the lack of working time regulations in the NV Bühne collective agreement has been a serious problem for many for years: physical and mental overload, burnout, poor work-life balance and a shortage of skilled workers are just some of the symptoms of this situation.
We Demand real relief and predictability for employees from german stage association!
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Who we are

We are the three sister unions BFFS (Bundesverband Schauspiel), GDBA (Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen Angehöriger) and VdO (Vereinigung deutscher Opern- und Tanzensembles). Together, we negotiate the NV Bühne collective agreement with the employers’ side, the German Stage Association. The NV Bühne is the working basis for around 20,000 employees. Together, we represent around 15,000 employees on and behind the stage. Together with many other interest groups, we are fighting side by side for a comprehensive reform of the NV Bühne. Because things simply cannot stay the way they are.
Press
- Neue Chance für Beilegung des Tarifstreits, 19.10.2023
- Tarifverhandlungen “Arbeitszeit” gescheitert, 27.06.2023
- Tarifausschuss des Deutschen Bühnenvereins fordert unzumutbare Bedingungen für Arbeitszeitregelung, 26.04.2023
The collective bargaining parties have long been discussing various structural models to improve the organisation of working, rest and rehearsal times in the NV Bühne agreement.
Recently, the German Stage Association has repeatedly demanded unreasonable conditions for working time regulations:
- Collective bargaining for 10 hours of working time per day
- Enabling weekly working hours of up to 60 hours over several months
- No timely compensation for this peak workload
The goal of reducing workloads and agreeing on more predictability with the help of a working time framework model for artists has not yet been achieved with the German Stage Association.
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Bundesverband Schauspiel e.V. (BFFS)
Kurfürstenstraße 130
10785 Berlin
info@bffs.de
presented by
Leslie Malton
Hans-Werner Meyer
Beka Bediana
Simone Wagner
Klara Deutschmann
Katharina Abt
Till Völger
Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangehöriger (GDBA)
Heinrichstrasse 23-25
22769 Hamburg
info@gdba.de
president: Lisa Jopt
Vereinigung deutscher Opern- und Tanzensembles e. V.
Hauptgeschäftsstelle Köln
Tobias Könemann (managin director)
Kolumbastraße 5
50667 Köln
Tel.: 0221 / 277 946-70
E-Mail: koenemann(at)vdoper.de
Geschäftsstelle Berlin
Gerrit-Michael Wedel (deputy managing director)
Ludwigkirchplatz 2
10719 Berlin
Telefon: 030-884723-0
E-Mail: wedel(at)vdoper.de
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