Our umbrella organisation, the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste, is a general contractual partner of GEMA. This means, among other things, that the members of the BFDK, i.e. the regional associations, as well as their members are granted a discount of 20 per cent on the applicable GEMA remuneration rates.

Prerequisites for the discount

1. the member has duly fulfilled the obligation to register and submit a list of the music sequence

2. the member is duly registered as such with GEMA by the BFDK.

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Pre-registrations of events can be made in the personal ‘mailbox’ in GEMA's online portal.
General information on GEMA and the General Partner Agreement can be found on the GEMA website. 

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In order to be able to use the discount and the benefit programmes of GEMA, a member must be registered with GEMA through the BFDK.
The process is as follows: The respective national association reports the contact details of its members to the BFDK. Only those members who have agreed to the data being passed on to the BFDK by the respective national association are registered.
The BFDK forwards the complete list of member data of all regional associations to the BFDK. The regional associations can notify the BFDK throughout the year of any need to change data and of members joining or leaving. 

Note: It may happen that the GEMA discount is not granted even though both requirements are met. In this case, the member or the respective national association is welcome to contact the BFDK by e-mail: post@darstellende-kuenste.de. 

The BFDK will then check once again that the membership data has been properly reported and will contact GEMA.

In addition to the discount, members have the option of using GEMA advantage programmes. Further information can be found here.