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“The Bosses”
Men everywhere: manager from Deichkind tells what is going wrong in the industry
Katharina Köhler, manager of Deichkind, in conversation with “Die Boss” host Simone Menne at the Reeperbahn Festival
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If you want to get to the band Deichkind, you have to go past them: manager Katharina Köhler speaks in the star-Podcast “Die Boss” with hostess Simone Menne about her career in the music industry. She says: The men have to make room.
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Katharina Köhler is one of the few women in management in the music industry: The 38-year-old has been responsible for the management of the band Deichkind for over ten years and has asserted herself in a strongly male-dominated industry. In conversation with Simone Menne for the star-Podcast “Die Boss” she tells what has to change in the music business. “There has to be a structure, a breeding ground, and that applies to the entire music industry. There must be more women on stages, more women in playlists, played on the radio. (…) I don’t know of any big booking or big label where there is one women in management positions are all men. You can also make room for them!” demands Köhler.
Deichkind manager advocates a quota for women in the music business
She supports a quota in the music business. In order to force change, she is becoming active herself: she has just founded Female Force Management with her colleague Saskia Trautwein. Together they want to promote diversity in the music industry and advise artists on strategy and positioning. But Köhler also says: women have to be braver. She knows that from her own experience. “What is a music manager? It’s not defined. I used to think I was a better secretary, that’s how it felt. It took me years before I dared to say: I’m the manager. That’s standard in the industry , that’s what they call it, and everyone has to know that. The bosses have to know that too: If they want to talk to the band, they have to talk to me,” she says.
This conversation was recorded live at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. In “The Boss – Power is Female” top women talk among themselves: hostess and multi-board member Simone Menne (including BMW, Deutsche Post DHL, Henkel) meets female bosses from all areas of society to talk to them about their lives and careers. “Die Boss” appears fortnightly on Wednesdays on stern.de and the Youtube channel of staras well as on AudioNow and all common podcast platforms.