Deutscher Bühnenverein

The German Stage Association ( DBV) is the national association of public and private support of the German Theatre and Orchestra. The registered association based in Cologne, is divided into eight regional associations, he is a member of the Performing Arts Employers Associations League Europe ( Pearle *). Since 2003 Klaus Zehelein is President, Chief Executive Officer Rolf Bolwin.

Tasks

The DBV shall represent the interests of its 430 members (city and state theaters including the opera houses, private and regional theaters and broadcasters ) in political and labor law terms and is also also a consultant - he organized about regular symposia and training, the experience of the should serve between members. As an employer, organization, he is bargaining partners stage unions ( cooperative German Stage Workers, German Orchestra Association, etc. ), with whom he also carries the stage arbitration. In resolutions and opinions, the DBV has especially pronounced in recent years repeatedly against the closure of cultural institutions and advocates for the preservation of the German theater scene. He is also editor of the oldest German theater magazine, The German stage. Every year also appears ever a theater and Network Statistics ( Who played what?). Since 2006, the German Theatre Prize FIST is awarded by the Theatre Association.

Organization

At the federal level, the DBV is divided into six groups, which the individual interests of certain members of the Council ( regional theaters, the Municipal Theatre, State Theatre, a private theater and artistic director group, along with a group of associate members such as broadcasting companies ). These form the General Assembly and provide with its chairman ever a member of the board.

The annual general meeting elects the collective bargaining committee, the eight directors are attached to a consultant. ( The Tariff Committee will conduct the collective bargaining with the stage unions. ) The General Meeting also determined 25 members of the Board, the establishment's also the chairman of the eight national associations (North, East, Central, Baden- Württemberg, Berlin, Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia ) as the Bureau belong. The Board of Directors is responsible for matters of club organization; the Board, which conducts the current business of the DBV, is chosen by him.

History

The DBV was founded in 1846 in Oldenburg, its first chairman was Karl Theodor von Küstner, the then director general of the Royal Prussian spectacles. The successor as chairman stepped to 1853 Ferdinand von Gall, who along with Küstner instrumental in the founding of the Theatre Association. The aim of the foundation was initially the uniform regulation of labor relations at the German court and city theaters. The director wanted so the frequent breaches of contract to prevent artist page.

Together with the founded in 1871 Cooperative German Stage Workers ( GDBA ) agreed DBV 1873 the first collective agreement for the theater, in the period following the stage arbitration could be established, so that joint arbitration courts emerged, which were active in labor disputes. During the club in the Weimar Republic strongly gained members, met him in 1933, the DC circuit of the Nazis: he was integrated into the Ministry of Arts and dissolved in the Sequence of the so-called Reich Chamber of Culture Law.

After the Second World War, first founded ( 1946 ) individual national associations, before 1948, the DBV at the federal level could begin its work again, with Gustaf first as Vice President, and later as president. From 1971 to 1981 Heinz Winfried Sabais served as president of the German Theatre Association.

1990, the DBV united under the leadership of the Munich general manager August Ever thing with the German Theatre Federation, the organization of the directors in the GDR, the Performing Arts Employers Associations League Europe ( Pearle * ) one year later they formed in Amsterdam.

With the creation of the normal contract stage in 2003, the artists unions and DBV have agreed on a common collective agreement for employees in the theater arts area, replacing a variety hitherto valid tariff rules. The stage club calls in addition also a single collective agreement for non- artistic staff.

At the annual general meeting of the Theatre Association in 2013 in Kiel was decided that the " resulting from the tradition of electoral and royal theater and the later founded Stadttheater German theater and orchestral landscape " propose for the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is the artistic diversity in the foreground, the experiences also international recognition.