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Analysis April 2025: Changes for German freelance tutors

2025-03-28T10:00:36.317

Cello Lesson at the Wedemark Music School in Lower Saxony cr Werner Musterer (1)

As music schools in Germany react to a government decision on freelance tutors, what are the ramifications for budgets, students and teaching bodies?

The music education landscape in Germany is in a state of limbo after the federal parliament in February decided to give music schools a further 22 months to adapt to a fundamental ruling on teachers’ employment status. The 2022 ‘Herrenberg Ruling’ determined that a teacher who had been employed on a freelance contract at a music school in the southern city of Herrenberg was ‘bogus self-employed’…

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