Feeling grateful for the trust that the fellow members of the German Jazz Union have in me! At our last convention that took place at the Jazz Ahead in Bremen I was re-elected to represent our membership for another 3 years.
Since 2021 I’m working together with 6 great colleagues in this honorary office trying my best to improve the visibility, the diversity but most of all the life standard and the social security of Jazz musicians in Germany. What we achieved together with other professional associations is for example to establish minimum wages for projects that are funded by public money.
In May I was happy to talk about all these developments at the international Bodensee conference in a dialogue with Andrea Fink who’s the general secretary of the “Bayerischer Tonkünstlerverband”, the Bavarian musicians’ association.
