work it out #2 | focus: permanent employment

In this session of the series work it out: employment models in the cultural sector, we will focus on the model of permanent employment with Sandra Soltau. We will delve into the complex of ‘employment’ and ask about the possibilities of shaping with attitude.

How do I approach being or becoming employed? How do I employ others? Are you an employee or employer for the first time and wondering what you need to consider to create a good employee-employer relationship? What do I need as a minimum in terms of basic infrastructure to be able to employ someone? How do I communicate the framework conditions as an employer? What about issues such as pseudo-self-employment (Scheinselbstständigkeit) and the prohibition of better employment (Besserstellungsverbot)? What responsibilities do I actually have as an employer? And what does that mean for employees? How do I create a functional, just and preferably anti-discriminatory working environment and what can I do beyond my basic and legal obligations as an employer?

The workshop provides important basics regarding the design of selection procedures (for publicly funded positions) and employment contracts, rights and obligations of employees and employers, framework conditions such as time recording, remote work, etc. and concludes with a focus on the conditions for good cooperation in an organisation.

The workshop series work it out: employment models in the cultural sector is dedicated to topics relating to working constellations (freelance, permanent, hybrid) and aims to structure the complex issues in our cultural sector and answer them from a practical perspective.

• part #1: fixed - freelance: either/or/and | 18.06.2025, 10 - 14

• part #2: focus: permanent employment | 11.09.2025, 10 - 14

• part #3: focus: self-employment | 02.10.2025, 10 - 14

more info on the contextual framework of the series: here

There will be breaks.
There might be breakout sessions.

Sandra Soltau studied cultural economics at the University of Passau and, after several years of professional experience as a cultural manager, completed her doctorate at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim on funding models for the independent music scene in Germany. She has worked for many years in leading positions in the field of culture and science, including at the Berlin University of the Arts and the National Museums in Berlin. Since January 2021, Sandra Soltau has been responsible for personnel, organisation and finance at the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (Federal Association for the Independent Performing Arts) as part of the management team. She also works as a freelance systemic organisational consultant and coach.

The series is aimed in particular at producers and interested cultural workers with a focus on the performing arts. The series assumes a certain amount of work experience, as we do not start from the basics, but want to share the many existing basic resources and try to respond to gaps in this series, sharpen generally available information for the cultural sector, educate ourselves further together and deepen focus topics.

This workshop is hosted in cooperation with the federal association for the independent performing arts (German abbreviation: BFDK).