u/Nikolaj_Spanikov93

Hallo Leute, hier ist meine Situation.

Ich habe eine Nicht-EU Staatsbürgerschaft (peruanisch) und studiere gerade im Master. Die typische Studentenregelung habe ich, d.h., dass ich 120 vollen Tagen arbeiten darf. Früher war uns allen eine Selbständige Erwerbstätigkeit gestattet, jetzt nicht mehr.

Vor kurzem habe ich einen Auftrag als Videograph bekommen, um ein Event 4 Stunden lang, am nächsten Monat zu filmen. Problem ist, dass ich kein Freiberufler bin und sie wollen, dass ich eine Rechnung für sie erstelle.

Was kann ich machen? Wie kann man sowas lösen?

Danke im Voraus!!!!

Hi,

Spanish is my mother tongue and I come from Latin America :)

I speak German at a C1 level, but I want to perfect it. After reaching a level most Germans stop correcting me and I stop improving my language. I need help.

On the other hand, I want to improve my Dutch :)

Best Wishes,

Some rando on the Internet

Hi guys, I have a fascination for European languages and European history.

I speak Spanish (mother tongue), English (C2), German (C1), French (B2) and Dutch (A2/B1).

I come from Spanish America (Hispanoamérica) and I learned English since I was a little kid. Then I did an exchange year in Germany and was 3 months in French speaking Canada.

Spanisch (Muttersprache), Englisch (C1/C2), Deutsch (C1), Französisch (B2) und Niederländisch (A2/B1).

Ihr könnt gerne Fragen über Sprachen und sonst stellen :)

You have to be a lucky idiot, a blind idiot or a religious zealot (which is worse than your average idiot) to still be on this.

Since I was 15, my dream was to be a film director. I spent my whole weekends downing the filmographies of Lynch, Cronenberg, Tarantino, Kubrick, etc., you name it.

I did three years of film studies in Peru and later I was able to go to Germany to do Theater studies there and do short film projects on the side.

I tried my best to get a job in the TV or Film Industry there.

I had tunnel vision. I knew what I wanted and I pursued it, every single second of my life.

Then three things happened in my life.

1. I started reading Karl Marx’s “The Capital”.
2. My parents stopped giving money to pay for my expenses (I was born with a silver spoon).
3. I fell in love with a single mother. Things didn’t work out between us, but she changed my whole perspective on life.

And I realized something that I knew, but that I didn’t really know know, until now.

Generally speaking, pursuing a dream in the filmmaking industry is for suckers.

And I can say that because I was a sucker.

Most of us lack class consciousness. I bet that the most part of people in the industry are the nepo babies of people already established. And if you don’t have a steady stream of money you can just forget about climbing up.

Yes, there are your Robert Rodriguezes and your Kevin Smiths, but they are statistical outliers.

They say that victors write history. Walter Benjamin once said (I’m paraphrasing) that there will be no progress in history if we don’t read the (his-)stories of the defeated.

And the defeated are the norm. Until I changed my mind, I secretly had this hope that I was different and that somehow I could make it.

I am happy I didn’t.

I don’t know how are labor laws, where you come from, but for example in Peru, people are expected to stay (way) longer than 10 hours on a film set.

Even in Germany, getting a secured job, instead of working as a ducking freelancer, is a privilege reserved for the top of the top.
You might think that the top of the top are there because of how good they are?

Not necessarily. And thinking they are, means you are caught in ideology.

The dream of “you can also be Robert Rodriguez” is the ultimate exploitative capitalist fantasy, which justifies the status quo.

It is expected from us to sacrifice us, because we are artists. That is a load of bull.

I say this as a communist: Today more than ever - instead of jumping into the jaws of moloch, like a pack of cocaine fueled lemmings - we should start to act with more selfishness. We should stop sacrificing ourselves for companies or corporations.

Without selfishness, we will not have families, savings and healthcare!

If an industry demands such grueling working conditions, it is not worth it and one should immediately look elsewhere.

Life is finite.

And there is nothing romantic about writing a screenplay, while you cannot buy a pack of ducking ramen.

Falling in love with the woman I mentioned, made me realize that I want a stable income.

That doesn’t mean that I have given up on my creativity. I will still write screenplays, theater plays and novels, on the side.

Stephen King was an English teacher.

Kafka was a bureaucrat.

Chandler was the CEO of a petroleum company, before turning writer.

If you depend on your art to make a living, the Capitalist Market logic (or utter lack of it) will force you to write what sells, NOT necessarily what is good.

So, yeah, I am happy, I got this revelation at 33. The only reason, why I was able to follow this path for so long was because of the material conditions, in which I was born.

Now that is gone, and so, as the lack of awareness.

I want to have a wife, family and kids; and I am not gonna play lotto with my life anymore.

This is my experience. If you had luck, good for you.

TLDR: I grew out of it due to economical reasons. If you are in this industry, you should probably look into “class consciousness” and “historical materialism”. Otherwise you are ducked.

About me: 33 y/o, Latin American, live in Germany, have a Bachelor’s degree in Theater and Literature, currently doing a Masters in Theater (about to ditch it), I speak five languages: Spanish (mother tongue), English (advanced), German (advanced), French (medium advanced) and Dutch (between beginner level and intermediate). 

Short summary of my situation: I need to get a “qualified job” in order to get the German citizenship. Since, getting a secure job in the TV or Film Industry is like playing lotto and I have no interest in precarious work conditions for the next five years. I have seen that there is a demand for Social Media Managers on the job market and I have already got the Google Analytics Certificate.

I have a couple of questions.

• How are the working conditions? Does anyone from Germany or Western Europe have an idea?
• What can I learn for free? What should I learn? Which certificates are important for a Junior position?
• How can I build a portfolio? What are the chances of getting a Junior position under my current circumstances without a portfolio?

In my portfolio there are a couple of short films and I am currently producing a theater play, written and directed by myself. So, besides the creative part, I know about budgets, time tables and logistics.

Any advice?

About me: 33 y/o, Latin American, live in Germany, have a Bachelor’s degree in Theater and Literature, currently doing a Masters in Theater (about to ditch it), I speak five languages: Spanish (mother tongue), English (advanced), German (advanced), French (medium advanced) and Dutch (between beginner level and intermediate). 

Short summary of my situation: I need to get a “qualified job” in order to get the German citizenship. Since, getting a secure job in the TV or Film Industry is like playing lotto and I have no interest in precarious work conditions for the next five years. I have seen that there is a demand for Social Media Managers on the job market and I have already got the Google Analytics Certificate.

I have a couple of questions.

• How are the working conditions? Does anyone from Germany or Western Europe have an idea? I do not live in the U.S.A., so the working conditions and labor laws could differ.
• What can I learn for free? What should I learn? Which certificates are important for a Junior position?
• How can I build a portfolio? What are the chances of getting a Junior position under my current circumstances without a portfolio?

In my portfolio there are a couple of short films and I am currently producing a theater play, written and directed by myself. So, besides the creative part, I know about budgets, time tables and logistics.

Any advice?