International artist lodge

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The International Artist Lodge (IAL) was founded on April 5, 1901 in Berlin as a professional association . The chairman of the founding assembly was the illusionist and magician Max Buldermann . Members could be performing artists such as singers, musicians, actors, dancers, cabaret artists , comedians and other artists who received at least 500 marks a month at the time. The IAL formed a legal protection commission and granted its members free legal protection within their professional relationships. Together with the lawyer Richard Treitel , Max Buldermann published the Handbook of Artists ' Law in 1905 .

1917-1933

Under the leadership of Max Buldermann, who was president of the IAL from 1904 to 1926, the IAL joined the working group of independent employee associations in 1917 . The IAL began increasingly to represent the interests of the circus and variety artists and the employees in the fairground trade in union form. In 1918 the circus unit agreement , a forerunner of the Cicus collective agreement (declared binding on October 22, 1919 by the Reich Labor Ministry ), was passed. In 1921, the IAL united with other staff associations to union generally free Angestelltenbund (depreciation). A pension fund and a death fund were set up for artists. A collective agreement was also drawn up for Russian artists and introduced in the Soviet Union . Max Buldermann organized several strikes against the directors' association of the circus and variety companies in order to enforce acceptance of and compliance with the collective agreements. From 1926 until the dissolution of the ILA by the Nazis was Alfred Fossil served as president of the lodge. From the 1920s to 1933, the IAL represented the interests of its international members in engagements and appearances around the world and maintained its own branches and offices in the most important venues. Abroad she had representations in Paris, Amsterdam, London, Edinburgh, Milan, Buenos Aires, New York and even in Moscow. From September 1, 1933, the members of the IAL were transferred to the Reichsfachschaft Artistik of the Association of German Theater Employees as part of the German Labor Front, taking into account National Socialist exclusion criteria , and thus the IAL was closed as an internationally active interest group with many members at home and abroad.

1945-1950

In 1945 the IAL was reopened in Berlin. Its first president after World War II was the clown and circus performer Carl Schwarz . Local artist associations emerged in many cities across the borders of the occupation zones. They joined the Berlin Lodge in 1946.

After the Free German Trade Union Confederation (FDGB) was founded in the Soviet zone of occupation , the IAL was run there until 1949 as an organization in the cartel of the art and literature trade union . In the German Democratic Republic , the members of the IAL were taken over into the stage, artistry, film and music trade union in 1949 , which was renamed the East German art trade union in 1951 . The IAL within the art union of the FDGB was dissolved in 1952.

In the western zones , under the leadership of Willi Feldmann, the IAL was re-established as a free artist and artist association based in Hamburg . In 1949, the IAL joined the Music, Stage, Film, and Artistic trade union in the British occupation zone , which on September 27, 1949 was instrumental in founding the West German art trade union in Frankfurt am Main . The art union , a founding member of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), was constituted as a cartel union with five independent professional associations, one of which was the IAL.

Since 1950

After numerous mergers of the individual trade unions in the DGB, the IAL is a professional association of the United Service Union (ver.di). It represents the interests of performing artists as well as artists in circus and variety companies or in the fairground trade.

IAL journals

  • 1901–1902 The International Artist Lodge
  • 1902–1921 The organ
  • 1921–1933 The program
  • 1948–1950 Artists (The journal of the International Artist Lodge, founded in 1901)
  • 1950 - ???? The program (trade journal of the International Artist Lodge in the Federal Republic of Germany)

literature

  • Ernst Günther: How the IAL was split . In: Ernst Günther, Heinz P. Hofmann, Walter Rösler (eds.): Cassette. An almanac for the stage, podium and ring (=  cassette ). No. 5 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1981, p. 177-184 (GDR perspective).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Digital Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chronology 1901, April 5th
  2. ↑ ibid
  3. ↑ Federal Archives, Berlin-Lichterfelde, General Free Employees Association
  4. ^ German Press Museum in the Ullsteinhaus eV: Press chronicle August 18, 1933
  5. ^ FDGB-Lexikon: Union of Art and Literature (and liberal professions), Berlin 2009
  6. ^ FDGB-Lexikon: Internationale Artistenloge, Berlin 2009
  7. ↑ United Service Union: Unified Trade Unions - Reconstruction after 1945 - Union of Art
  8. ↑ ibid