diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
index 01085ba4fea6cc30df480186ddcdcab38e21c66a..4e49dc99394304e6d9fa99e163b60a9877218c15 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ configure(useCaseApplicationsFlink) {
       // These dependencies are used internally, and not exposed to consumers on their own compile classpath.
       implementation 'org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:2.2.0'
       implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:24.1-jre'
+      implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
       implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.6.1'
       compile project(':flink-commons')