AfD on culture and media

The AfD wants to protect Bavaria's cultural landscape from wind turbines, solar parks and what it calls faceless architecture. Townscapes and monuments are to be preserved and a regional building culture promoted. It rejects loosening monument protection for the sake of climate action.

The AfD wants to keep the look of Bavaria. Wind turbines and solar parks should not change the landscape. Old buildings should get better protection. Rules for old buildings should not be relaxed because of the climate.

The program calls for wide-area development plans that respect the appearance of villages and towns, and for fixed criteria for identity-building urban design in public tenders. Funding and advice for monument protection are to be greatly expanded and owners more closely involved, so that living in listed buildings becomes more attractive. The AfD names solar panels and facade insulation on historic buildings as examples of a loosening it rejects. Local heritage officers and district building officials are to be better trained and strengthened. The party also wants to introduce young people to regional customs.

The AfD wants to write German into the Bavarian constitution as the sole state and official language. Gender-inclusive language in public authorities and public broadcasters is to be stopped. The party sees the German language and Bavaria's dialects as the basis of cultural identity.

The AfD wants to put German into the Bavarian constitution. German should be the only language for public offices. Public offices should not use gender-inclusive language. This should also apply to public broadcasters.

According to the program, German is to be protected, cultivated and promoted. It also names the Bavarian, Franconian and Swabian dialects, which together with standard German are seen as the basis of Bavarian identity. The ban on gender-inclusive language is to apply to public authorities and public broadcasting.

The AfD wants to significantly reduce requirements for club festivals and keep bureaucracy for clubs to a minimum. Bavarian customs are to be promoted more strongly. In the party's view, club life suffers from too many rules.

Clubs should have to follow fewer rules. Club festivals should be easier to hold. The AfD wants more support for Bavarian customs. Card tournaments run by volunteers should stay legal.

The program justifies the demand by saying clubs should be able to focus on community life again. As an example of promoting customs it names traditional Bavarian card games. Volunteer-run tournaments with reasonable cash or in-kind prizes should not be a criminal matter.

The AfD wants to preserve the history and culture of Germans from the former eastern territories for future generations. Among other things, it calls for a statistical record of this group in Bavaria, adding the topic to the school curriculum, and a welcome program for Spätaussiedler (ethnic German resettlers).

Many Germans once had to leave their homes in the east. The AfD wants to preserve their history and culture. Students should learn this history in school. Ethnic German resettlers should get a welcome program.

The history of the former eastern territories is to become a fixed part of the Bavarian curriculum for middle grades. In the countries of those territories, the AfD wants more support for German remembrance, language and culture, for example through language schools and museums. The welcome program is aimed at ethnic German resettlers and German emigrants. The party calls this a patriotic duty and wants to cooperate peacefully with neighboring countries.

The AfD wants Bavaria to leave the Interstate Media Treaty and have Bayerischer Rundfunk provide only a basic service. This is meant to cut the license fee sharply. A council elected directly by citizens would oversee the broadcaster.

The AfD wants to change public broadcasting a lot. Bavaria should leave the states' treaty on broadcasting. Bayerischer Rundfunk should offer only a small program. People would then pay much less. Citizens would elect a council to oversee the broadcaster.

The program calls today's public broadcasting state propaganda and announces a fundamental reform. After leaving the Interstate Media Treaty, Bayerischer Rundfunk would air culture, news and education, plus coverage of regional sports. Oversight would lie with a volunteer council elected directly by citizens. Elsewhere the program calls for abolishing the broadcasting fee altogether.