Collective agreement for musicians in cultural orchestras
The collective agreement for musicians in cultural orchestras (TVK) regulates the working conditions and remuneration of the members of around 130 publicly funded German cultural orchestras . It was agreed between the German Stage Association as an employers' association, the German Orchestra Association (DOV) and the ÖTV as an employee representative on July 1, 1971. The versions since 1981 are only signed by the DOV on the employee side. The term cultural orchestra became a cultural-political term with the tariff regulation for German cultural orchestras of March 30, 1938 and is based on the concept of culture of the 1930s. Pure entertainment and operetta orchestras and especially jazz ensembles were therefore excluded from the scope of the contract.
In the sense of today's contract, the cultural orchestras are defined as those orchestras that “regularly perform opera service or play concerts of serious music”. The German broadcasters are not members of the German Stage Association; therefore the contract does not apply to musicians in radio orchestras in Germany.
Classification of the orchestra
In the contract, the orchestras are grouped into individual remuneration groups in accordance with Section 17, which are based on the minimum number of permanent positions in the respective orchestra. For this purpose, the number of strings and the individual wind groups as well as the total number of orchestra positions are used. If this number of posts is fulfilled, the members of the orchestra must be remunerated after they have been sorted into the respective group, provided that it is a theater orchestra whose sponsor is a member of the German Stage Association. A separate collective agreement allows an orchestra to be classified in a higher pay group without the orchestra reaching the minimum number of posts. In the event of job cuts, an orchestra retains its previous pay group; it may only be assigned to a lower pay group by means of a separate collective agreement.
Basically, there are salary groups A, B and C. Orchestras that do not meet the requirements of group C are classified as group D. Section 17 also specifies two exceptions which, under certain conditions, stipulate higher paid subgroups for the A and B orchestras.
| Remuneration group | Total number | Strings | Wind players | example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A + allowance under § 17 para. 7, pt. A and A footnote referred |
130 | 74 | 48 | State Theater Stuttgart / State Orchestra Stuttgart |
| A. | 99 | 55 | 38 | Wuppertaler Bühnen / Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra |
| B + allowance under § 22 para. 7 literally. B and B footnote called |
78 | 43 | 39 | Theater Erfurt / Philharmonic Orchestra Erfurt |
| B. | 66 | 36 | 26th | Theater Aachen / Symphony Orchestra Aachen |
| C. | 56 | 30th | 23 | Theater Ulm / Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Ulm |
| D. | City Theater Pforzheim / Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim |
With the introduction of the TVK in 2009, the previous remuneration group A footnote 2 no longer existed; it was located between the previous remuneration groups A footnote 1 and A; however, some orchestras continue to pay their musicians according to this remuneration group due to grandfathering.
The remuneration of the “orchestras that exclusively or predominantly play concerts” is determined by their own collective bargaining agreements, usually by assigning them to one of the remuneration groups. Often there are also separate collective agreements for symphony orchestras, so-called in- house collective agreements , in which the remuneration is regulated differently upwards or downwards.
literature
- German Orchestra Association: Alphabetical list of German cultural orchestras with categorization and positions, February 2018 ( PDF , 41 KB)
Web links
- Gerald Mertens: cultural orchestras, radio ensembles and opera choirs on the DOV website
Individual evidence
- ^ Lutz Felbick : The "high cultural assets of German music" and the "degenerate" - on the problem of the concept of the cultural orchestra, in: Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement , 2/2015, pp. 85–115.
- ↑ TVK § 1, Paragraph 2. The definition of which music is to be classified as “music to be considered serious” was not discussed when the legal term “ cultural orchestra ” emerged in 1938 during the Nazi dictatorship. In the post-war period, the demarcation between light and serious music was often controversial. Furthermore, the so-called culture Orchestra at open-air concerts are increasingly common programs with a crossover to popular music on. A revision of the definitions and terms is currently being considered at the ministry level.
- ↑ TVK § 17 para. 6
- ↑ TVK of October 31, 2009, § 17
- ↑ Deutsche Orchestervereinigung: Alphabetical list of the German cultural orchestras with categorization and positions, February 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ TVK § 17 para. 8
