GEMA

About loving texts

Without Otto Waalkes German music would be missing something: Judith Holofernes, front woman, singer and writer of the band "Wir sind Helden" learned to love the German language thanks to the jokes of the East Frisian. Now she is the covergirl of the latest edition of virtuos, the members’ magazine of the GEMA. The collecting society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights offers its 60,000 members exciting topics and a state-of-the-art layout with the support of heller & partner. virtuos reports up-to-date and critically on political issues, on major events of the year like the “German Music Author Award” and the GEMA General Assembly in Munich - and in the cover story on the art of texting.

Topics with regard to current issues, opinion-forming articles, news about the rights and obligations of members, ‘industry buzz’ - the current edition of virtuos offers its readers a lot of reading material:

• Talking with each other rather than about each other: GEMA analyzes the public petition on the internet portal of the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag
• Obligatory notice: Decisions of the General Assembly
• The Shadow Man: Earn money with serious music - can one live by arrangements?
• The opportunity of coaching: Possibilities of continuing education for young authors and musicians