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Mozart's ‘The Magic Flute’ was Germany's most performed opera of the 2021-22 season. Overall, peformance figures stabilised after COVID-19 breakout.

Public music schools offer a variety of instrumental and vocal subjects. Piano, guitar, violin, recorder, percussion and flute have the highest numbers of pupils.

Public music schools had approximately 1.4 million pupils in the calendar year 2021. Particularly in the younger age groups, pupil numbers declined in the pandemic years.

With almost 6,200 schools and 5,100 kindergartens, most of the cooperation partners of public music schools are educational institutions. Many music clubs are also partners.

The 2020-21 season data document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on orchestra operations. Concert and attendance figures declined significantly.

With only 3,205 opera, operetta, musical and dance performances and 685,000 visits to these events, the consequences of the pandemic on theatre operations in the 2020-21 season are profound.

At German theatres, non-permanent artistic staff was strongly affected by the pandemic. Figures of other staff groups only slightely decreased.

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.

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.

All income sources totalled, the average monthly net income of professional musicians is 2,660 euros. 70% are not exclusively working as artists. Freelancers and women earn below-average.

Der Deutsche Kulturrat legt eine Stellungnahme zum Bundeskulturförderprogramm NEUSTART KULTUR vor.

In 24.300 Ensembles der evangelischen Kirche waren 2021 knapp 350.000 Musiker*innen aktiv. Im Vergleich zum vorpandemischen Wert 2019 waren dies 116.000 Menschen weniger.

Die Volkshochschulen veranstalten jährlich ca. 13.000 bis 16.000 Kurse in Musikpraxis und Theorie mit rund 110.000 und mehr Belegungen. Infolge der Pandemie waren die Zahlen zuletzt rückläufig.

Die katholische Kirche zählte 2022 rund 14.500 Ensembles, in denen knapp 300.000 Menschen musizierten. Während der Pandemie haben insbesondere die Chöre viele Mitglieder verloren.