Lisa Basten

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Portrait Foto Lisa Basten (Martina Sander, WZB)
Martina Sander, WZB

Contact

lisa-basten [at] boeckler.de
Former Scholarship Holder des Promotionskollegs
"Good Work in a Transformative World"

Lisa Basten was a Research Fellow at the WZB from 2016 to 2020 in the college "Good Work": Approaches to Shaping Tomorrow's World of Work" funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation.  She is working on her Dissertation on the topic "Project work in Germany. Creative future or highly qualified precariat?".

Research fields

Project-based work | Creative industries | Workers‘ participation | Precarity

Selected Publications

Wzbaktiv
2020
Basten, Lisa/Vitols, Sigurt (2020): "Die Chancen des SOEP für den Diskurs um künstlerische und kulturelle Arbeit". In: Gabriele Schulz/Olaf Zimmermann (Hg.): Frauen und Männer im Kulturmarkt. Bericht zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Lage. Berlin: Deutscher Kulturrat, S. 437-461.
2019
Basten, Lisa (2019): "Ist das Arbeit oder ist das Kunst? Die doppelte Einbettung kreativer Erwerbstätigkeit". In: Kim Kannler/Valeska Klug/Kristina Petzold/Franziska Schaaf (Hg.): Kritische Kreativität. Perspektiven auf Arbeit, Bildung, Lifestyle und Kunst. Kulturen der Gesellschaft, Bd. 38. Bielefeld: transcript, S. 87-104.
Basten, Lisa/Behrmann, Stephan (2019): "Der Mehrwert kreativer Arbeit/The Added Value of Creative Work. Interview". In: Sabrina Apit/Janina Benduski/Marit Buchmeier/Therese Schmidt (Eds.): Freies Arbeiten/Working Independently. Kollektiv, vernetzt, solidarisch - Ein Handbuch zu Arbeitsstrukturen in den freien darstellenden Künsten/Collective, Networked, Solidary - A Handbook on Work Structures in the Independent Performing Arts. Berlin: LAFT Berlin - Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Berlin e.V., S. 20-27.
2018
Basten, Lisa/Kassel, Dieter (2018): "Arbeit am Rande der Selbstausbeutung". In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 19.07.2018.
2017
Basten, Lisa (2017): "Kreativwirtschaft. Arbeit 4.0 oder hochqualifiziertes Prekariat?". In: SPW - Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft, H. 2, S. 39-43.
Basten, Lisa/Hartig, Peter (2017): "Arm, aber hip!". In: cinearte - Nachrichten für Filmschaffende, H. 390, S. 16-20.
2016
Basten, Lisa (2016): Wir Kreative! Das Selbstverständnis einer Branche. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 162 S.
Basten, Lisa/Hauke-Steller, Frank (2016): "Krise der Kreativen. 'ARD und ZDF werden ihrer Verantwortung nicht gerecht' - Interview mit Lisa Basten". In: Kress.de, 22.09.2016.
Basten, Lisa/Nehrlich, Helma (2016): "Da ist Handlungsbedarf. Wandel der Arbeitswelt und Interessenvertretung jenseits etablierter Standards". In: M - Menschen Machen Medien/medienpolitische Ver.di-Zeitschrift, Jg. 65, H. 4, S. 27-28.
Basten, Lisa/Steinhau, Henry (2016): "Der Mythos vom Durchbeißen. Interview mit Lisa Basten". In: Philipp Otto (Hg.): Das Netz. Jahresrückblick 2016/2017 - Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft. Berlin: iRights.media, S. 242-245.
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Portrait Foto Lisa Basten (Martina Sander, WZB)
Martina Sander, WZB

Contact

lisa-basten [at] boeckler.de

"Work of the Future" (in German) by Lisa Basten

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Publikation von Lisa Basten beim Verlag Frank&Timme

Publication by Lisa Basten at Verlag Frank&Timme

 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Interviews with Lisa Basten

 

27 May 2019, radio interview at Deutschlandfunk Nova

Creativity. Being in flow.

Interview with Utz Dräger in the context of the broadcast "Ab 21"

 

19 July 2018, radio interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Work on the verge of self-exploitation.

Lisa Basten in conversation with Dieter Kassel

 

28 February 2017, Out-Takes. The film and television industry blog

Poor, but hip!

Talk with Peter Hartig from Cinearte about my research on film and television work.

 

 

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Political Work

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13 June 2019, on the podium at the expert day of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE

Working for the stage - strengthening cultural workers!

 

 

 

16 May 2019, the Green Party invited experts to talk about the "Social Situation of Creatives"

Under Pressure - Kunst und Freiheit

 

9 October 2017 at WeWork (Berlin)

Self-employment: New perspectives after the elections?
A panel discussion to which the European Freelancers Week has invited

 

15 May 2017 at the Bavarian Parliament (Munich) / organised by Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN

Grün Fair Film

Opening lecture on the topic "Fairness in creative industries in the context of a changing world of work". The event was streamed.

 

26 April 2017 in the Bundestag / Organizer: Bundestag fraction Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN

Creative and self-employed: Green impulses for freelancers in the creative industries

The Green Party invited me to present my comments on their position paper. In particular, associations from the cultural and creative industries were invited.  Click here for the paper and documentation of the event.

 

26 April 2017 in the Bundestag / Committee on Culture and the Media

Consultation on the social situation of creative people

Invitation as expert to the Committee on Culture and the Media. The House Journal of the Bundestag reported.

 

5 February 2016, Lecture and Panel Discussion: Art vs. Labour / Keynote to the Verdi Panel
Berlinale, Ver.di >>> Article

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Moderation and Workshops

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24 February 2020, Moderation of the "IMAGO conference on Working Conditions"

round table conference on working conditions in the film industry within the framework of the Berlinale 2020 in collaboration with INTERFACE FILM.

 

January 17, 2020, moderation of the discussion "Utopian Dialogue on Working Conditions in the Independent Performing Arts" within the framework of UTOPIA.NOW – Federal Congress of Independent Performing Arts, Berlin

 

 

14-15 November 2019, FILM/COOP: Cooperative models for the film industry

Concept and moderation of the opening symposium of the International Academy of Media and Arts Halle e.V. in cooperation with Crew United.

Further information in German

 

8 November 2019, moderation of the autumn meeting of the Broadcasting Pension Fund

 

October 19, 2019, "SUPPORT Your Local Culture". Series of events of the Berlin Cultural Fund - Workshop on "Social Security" together with Sebastian Hoffmann, Berlin

 

7 February 2019, Moderation of the Fair Film Award together with Rüdiger Suchsland

 

28/29 January 2019, moderation and conception of the workshop "Working Conditions of Filmmakers in Europe" within the framework of Vienna Documents, EU-XXL in Vienna

 

15 February 2018 in the Kesselhaus / organized by Crew United

Film but Fair! Impulse, discussion, award ceremony
Moderation of the event, together with the film critic Rüdiger Suchsland, which consisted of impulses, a panel discussion and the presentation of the 'Fair Film Award'.

 

28 April 2017 at the sehsüchte Festival at the Film University Babelsberg / organized by ver.di

Realitycheck: How can we make a living from filmmaking?

Interactive workshop for students / young professionals, developed in cooperation with ver.di FilmUnion , in which we inform about the legal framework and point out the trade union work in the film industry. The ver.di magazine M has reported on this.

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Ansgar Bovert, ZAV-Künstlervermittlung

Lectures and panel participations

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24 February 2020, participation in the panel discussion "Don't talk, act! Lack of junior staff and skilled labor in the Film Industry" of the ZAV Network Forum as part of the Berlinale 2020.

A recording of the entire panel discussion in German is available on YouTube.

 

25 July 2019, panel participation in the Future Forum "The Work of the Future" at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

 

 

October 13, 2018, Panel participation at "LABOR.A 2018" (Platform "Work of the Future" of the Hans Böckler Foundation) on the topic "How does research become tangible"?

 

18 September 2018, Keynote speech at the German Academy for Television in Berlin on the topic: The critical ability of creative women in project-based employment: #MeToo, quotas and glass ceilings

 

March 13, 2018, "Burning Issues". The 1st Conference of female Theater Makers.

Lecture on female criticism of creative employment in front of 350 female theatre makers at the Theater Bonn.

 

13 November 2017 in the Chamber of Labour Vienna / organized by Die Filmschaffenden (AT)

Successfull at risk of poverty. The working and living situation of filmmakers in Austria as an example of the flexibilisation and precarisation of the working world.
Panel discussion with colleagues from our neighbouring country. The event was streamed!

 

28 June 2017 in the Kindl Brewery / organized by the Hans Böckler Foundation

Final Forum of the Expert Commission "Work of the Future"

Panelist at the panel on "Diffusion of companies - working in times of new value chains". The Commission's final report is also available as a PDF file.

 

16 June 2017 in the Alte Münze (Berlin) / organized by the Regional Association of the Liberal Arts, LAFT

Art promotion vs. creative industry promotion - a (late) mediation attempt

Lecture at the Performing Arts Festival on "Creative Entrepreneurship vs. Art as Vocation. On new differences and old structures in our working world". Program description can be found here.

 

9 February 2017 at the Kesselhaus / hosted by Crew United

How do we want to make movies, how do we want to live?

Participant in the panel discussion at the Berlinale to discuss working conditions: Livestream and extensive reporting, here again on out.takes, in the RBB (no longer online), in the Morgenpost and in the ver.di magazine M.

 

4 November 2016, Panel Discussion: Shaping Festival Work Fairly
Art: Leipzig, DGB House >>> Facebook "Festival Work"