FAQ Bewerbung

You can find our current vacancies here. We update our vacancies regularly. All published vacancies are vacant.

For a complete application, we require an individual cover letter/letter of motivation, CV/resume, school/study certificates and other certificates and references (e.g. internship certificates, training certificates, job references and other letters of recommendation). You are welcome to state your earliest possible starting date.

We would ask you to submit your application as a PFD document via our career portal. The size of your file should not exceed 4 MB.

We prefer this method as it allows us to review and process your application much more quickly and we can give you feedback sooner. You also save on postage and material costs. Please understand that we cannot return application documents sent by post.

You are welcome to send us your unsolicited application. If there is currently no suitable position for you, we will check whether we can include your documents in the talent pool. We will contact you separately for this purpose. Please refrain from sending unsolicited applications for an apprenticeship.

Your application will be carefully checked by us and agreed with the relevant specialist department. This may take some time. Once we have made our decision, we will contact you immediately without being asked and, ideally, invite you to an interview.

If we are successful in getting to know each other, we will - depending on the department and the position advertised - either accept you directly with a contract offer or invite you to a further meeting in the relevant department or with the person responsible for you in our theatre.

Here are a few tips for the job interview:

• We emphasise a pleasant atmosphere during the interview.
• We want to get to know each other as equals.
• Find out about Oper Leipzig and the advertised position in advance.
• Tell us conclusively and authentically why you are suitable for the position.
• Actively use the opportunity to find out whether the position suits you.
• We will be happy to discuss all your open questions in detail.
• Please note that we cannot cover any travel and accommodation costs for the interviews or any trial work.

We hereby inform you about the processing of your personal data exclusively by Oper Leipzig, Augustusplatz 12, 04109 Leipzig and the rights to which you are entitled under data protection law.

Our application process and the software used are subject to the relevant legal data protection regulations (see also: For what purpose and on what legal basis is data processed?)

The controller for data processing is Oper Leipzig, Augustusplatz 12, 04109 Leipzig. You can reach our data protection officer, Mr Thomas Schultz, at Martin-Luther-Ring 4 - 6, 04109 Leipzig The contact details are also available on our website in the ‘Data protection’ section.

As part of our applicant management, we collect and process your personal data in order to select suitable external and internal applicants to fill an open position in compliance with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and all other relevant laws.

Within our company, only those persons and departments as well as representatives (e.g. staff council, representatives for severely disabled persons, equal opportunities officer) receive your personal data that they need to make a decision and complete the application process. 

If we do not consider your application, we will irretrievably delete your application together with the submitted documents after the legally prescribed deletion period of 6 months from the end of the application process, in accordance with the provisions of the AGG.

If you have given us your consent and we have a legitimate interest in retaining your documents, we will include your personal data in our applicant pool in order to contact you at a later date. Here too, the longest storage period of 3 years applies. You can object to the further processing of your data at any time by withdrawing your application or notifying us of your wish to be deleted from the applicant pool.

As part of your application, you are required to provide personal data that is necessary for the establishment of a possible contractual relationship or that we are legally obliged to collect. Without this data, we will not be able to check whether an employment relationship can be concluded with you. 

You can request information about the personal data stored about you. In addition, under certain conditions, you can request the rectification or erasure of your data. You may also have the right to restrict the processing of your data and the right to receive the data you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

You have the option of lodging a complaint with the data protection officer named above or with a data protection supervisory authority. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us is: Die Sächsische Datenschutz- und Transparenzbeauftragte, Devrientstraße 5, 01067 Dresden, phone: 0351 85471-101, e-mail: post@sdtb.sachsen.de