Interest group of the Hamburg music industry
The Hamburg Music Industry Association (IHM) is Germany's first and Europe's largest regional music industry association with currently around 100 member companies. The IHM represents companies and self-employed people from Hamburg with a total of more than 1500 permanent employees, far more freelance workers and a total annual turnover of over € 500 million. IHM members are independent companies from all areas of the music industry: artist agencies / managements, production companies, publishers, labels, distributors, concert promoters, event agencies, music clubs, digital service providers, media lawyers, promotion agencies, music media or music-related institutions.
society
The IHM was founded in March 2004 with the purpose of promoting and helping to shape the music and music industry in Hamburg. The current board consists of Christoph Becker (BASS Musik Produktion), Leif Nüske ( Mojo Club ), Alexander Schulz ( Reeperbahn Festival ), Julia Staron (kukuun), Nicola Tyszkiewicz (FamilyHouse Production) and Christian Wiesmann ( FKP Scorpio concert productions ). Alexander Schulz is the chairman of the board. Timotheus Wiesmann is the managing director.
aims
1. Creation of structural framework conditions for successful and independent business in the field of music
2. Active networking of the Hamburg music industry within itself and with the key players in other content-related and structurally related industries on a regional, national and international level
3. Lobbying to assert the interests identified in the sector against politics and administration
4. Sustainable anchoring of the music industry in the consciousness of the city
5. Strengthening Hamburg as a music metropolis on a national and international level
Projects
As part of the pursuit of its goals, the IHM carries out numerous national and international projects with and for its member companies. For example, the IHM is the initiator of the Music Cities Network (MCN), a public-private network with the aim of expanding and improving communication and cooperation between international music cities. With the Music Business Summer School, the IHM organizes an annual further training and professionalization offer for the German-speaking music industry. At the Reeperbahn Festival, the association creates a designated place with the Hamburg Haus every year, where artists, companies and institutions from the Hamburg music industry can present themselves and network with one another. IHM has been one of the organizers of the Hamburg appearance at the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas since 2008 . In addition, with the Initiative Musik and the Berlin Music Commission, she is one of the founders of the all-German SXSW appearance German Haus in 2013 and has since been jointly responsible for its marketing and production. In 2018, the IHM and the drinking water initiative Viva Con Agua organized the "Waterweek LA" in Los Angeles as part of World Water Day . The IHM has been organizing the Hamburg Music Prize (until 2017: "HANS").
Individual evidence
- ^ IHM - Hamburg Music Industry Interest Group. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Jan Paersch: “Jan Delay has already hung up on the toilet” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 14, 2019, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 27 ePaper 23 North ( taz.de [accessed October 14, 2019]).
- ^ IHM - Hamburg Music Industry Interest Group. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
- ^ IHM - Hamburg Music Industry Interest Group. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Hamburg startups with a record presence at this year's SXSW Festival. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
- ^ Projects - Hamburg Music Industry Interest Group. Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Water Week - arrogance Project. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .