diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/docker-test/uc1-flink-docker-compose/docker-compose.yml b/theodolite-benchmarks/docker-test/uc1-flink-docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
index dc5de563c67491cb054792368b0d43e97bc9eeb8..c20193922f80bb44bc137b4f72ddf5f36f56d80d 100755
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/docker-test/uc1-flink-docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/docker-test/uc1-flink-docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ services:
         FLINK_PROPERTIES=
         jobmanager.rpc.address: benchmark-jobmanager
         parallelism.default: 1
+    depends_on:
+      - schema-registry
+      - kafka
   benchmark-taskmanager:
     image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc1-flink:latest
     command: taskmanager
@@ -121,3 +124,6 @@ services:
       - |
         FLINK_PROPERTIES=
         jobmanager.rpc.address: benchmark-jobmanager
+    depends_on:
+      - schema-registry
+      - kafka