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The total expenses of publicly financed theatres in Germany amounted to approximately 3.2 billion euros in 2020. 68.5 % of the expenditure was for staff.

Making music holds a lot of potential for the individual development of people in prison. U.S. music pedagogue Mary Cohen has been conducting research on this topic for more than 15 years.

Freelance music professionals in the KSK social insurance expect an annual income of 14,191 euros in 2022. Prognoses are higher than in the previous year, but do not yet reach pre-pandemic level.

70% of professional musicians are not only artistically active. Their average monthly net income is 2,660 euros, with significant differences depending on the type of employment and gender.

What challenges does IAMIC face today? And what are the expectations for the conference in Bonn? IAMIC president Diana Marsh and Stephan Schulmeistrat in an interview with ‘neue musikzeitung’.

In Germany's 129 publicly funded orchestras, four out of ten musicians are female. In section leader and soloist positions of highly remunerated orchestras, the share of women is only 22%.