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technician. Teamwork and sensitive task-oriented work are important qualities of event technicians. Additionally, special, and temporal flexibility are needed. Spatial flexibility due to changing work places causing a lot of traveling. Temporal flexibility because of unusual working hours given the occasional need to be the last person at an event and working during the weekends, at night and during holidays.
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technician is responsible for the stage area including electricity, flying loads and sound & laser emissions. Another part of an event technician's area of responsibility is electrotechnical safety, which influenced the content-related change of the apprenticeship to include the job training for a qualified electrician into the event technician apprenticeship.
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and others usually requires sensitivity to understand the concept and intention of the event in order to artistically accompany the event in the right way. Redesigning and reorganizing event locations, e.g. lighting for architectural structures or
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