Frightening news from the capital: there is a shortage of skilled workers in the creative sector!
80 percent of the media, creative and digital companies in Berlin and the surrounding area have problems finding skilled workers, reports the media barometer from Medianet Berlin Brandenburg.
The film industry in particular is desperately looking for staff on the set, reports the “Tagesspiegel”.
Those who remember their youth ask: in the past, when you were still studying humanities, everyone wanted to be in film!
You wanted to be an actor, screenwriter, director!
Even as a cable dragger, you felt superior to those who had embarked on the path to administrative clerk.
What's wrong with the young people?
Don't they have any more dreams?
Horror scenarios haunt our heads: soon we will live in a desolate world - without a cinema or theatre!
The young people of today are stuffy, so the first assumption.
They don't have the passion, they don't have the courage, they don't have the coolness.
They become civil servants, buy a dog and drink sweet champagne after they have signed the home savings contract.
It's easy to talk, however, as a boomer with a permanent job.
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But what do you think as a representative of the younger generation?
First of all, you try to appease.
The friend of a friend from Berlin recently told me that she wanted to be in a film.
She has been making commercials for gummy bears for years, until she finally got the approval of a renowned film school.
All is not lost: perhaps there will still be films in the future.
Admittedly, this is only anecdotal evidence.
If you have thought about it for a long time, you have to admit: Most of your fellow students really don't want to go to the film.
What could be the reason?
Anyone who studies in the Bologna days and slips from one poorly paid internship in the aforementioned media and creative industries to another must look deep into themselves.
Today's ZDF program promises "Die Küchenschlacht", "Bares für Rares" and "Die Rosenheim-Cops", presumably peppered with advertising for pills against dizziness, heartburn and prostate problems.
Who hasn't dreamed of being a radio cable hauler?
Creativity is alive, the worried older people can rest easy.
It's not the young who are stuffy, it's the old people's television that is.
The young have long since invented their own formats.
And lucky: You can produce the Tiktok video yourself with your smartphone.
No one has to lug around cables.