AfD on culture and media

The AfD rejects the mandatory broadcasting fee and wants to amend the interstate broadcasting treaty so that only users pay. Public broadcasting would shrink and be limited to information and regional coverage, as the AfD accuses it of bias, waste and breaches of the law.

Today every household pays the broadcasting fee. The AfD wants only viewers to pay. Public broadcasting should become smaller. It should mainly inform and report on the region.

Salaries would follow public-sector pay scales, and three director posts would be cut. Party members would no longer be allowed to sit on the broadcasting council or administrative board of rbb, the regional public broadcaster. The broadcasting council would be halved and elected directly by the people. Meetings of supervisory bodies would generally be public, and program complaints would be handled in public. The AfD also wants a review of the scandals at rbb; the preface speaks of terminating the interstate broadcasting treaties.

The AfD wants to fund monument protection according to need while easing the rules for old buildings of no public interest so they can be lived in. It also supports rebuilding lost historic structures.

The AfD wants to give more money for old buildings. For some old houses the rules should be looser. Then people can rebuild them and live there. The AfD wants to rebuild lost historic buildings.

Local residents, together with the lower building authority and the state monument office, are to decide which buildings are of no public interest. The party sees rigid rules as the cause of vacancy and decay in historic town centers. Funding for the working group of towns and municipalities with historic centers is to grow. Reconstructions are to receive more support with local people involved; the platform expects more attractive towns and gains for tourism.

The AfD wants to preserve Brandenburg's customs and the culture of the Sorbs and Wends and give more support to heritage clubs. Historic names of streets and squares should stay, and historic cultural assets should be digitized.

The AfD wants to keep old customs in Brandenburg. These include folk dress, songs and folk festivals. The culture of the Sorbs and Wends should stay too. Clubs for customs should get more help. Old street names should stay.

The platform counts folk dress, songs, poems, fairy tales, dances and folk festivals among these customs. Shooting clubs, rural youth clubs, soldiers' and reservists' associations and clubs that organize local festivals should also be eligible for funding. The party rejects state government influence on street names. Digitizing cultural assets is meant to make written records of Brandenburg-Prussian history available to everyone.

The AfD wants to abolish the Schatzregal (treasure trove rule), under which hidden ownerless finds belong to the state. Because finders get no reward, the party says finds often go unreported.

Anyone who finds old treasure in Brandenburg must give it to the state. This rule is called Schatzregal. The finder gets no reward. The AfD wants to end the rule. Then more finders will report what they find, the AfD says.

According to the platform, the rule encourages people to keep finds for themselves. Finds are more likely to be taken to states without such a rule. Researchers then never learn where the find was actually made.

The AfD wants permanent jobs to be the norm for music school teachers with a university degree and wants to fund music schools, young orchestra musicians and the visual arts. Strongly political cultural institutions should no longer receive tax money.

Teachers at public music schools should get permanent jobs. The AfD wants to fund music and art. Cultural groups with a strong political leaning should get no tax money. Parties should have less say over culture.

Freelance contracts are to become the exception at public music schools. Private music schools with top results should also get money, and young orchestra musicians a dedicated program. Galleries, studios, palaces and parks are to be included instead of supporting clubs the platform calls ideological. The party considers public cultural funding necessary in principle, but says it must not serve political influence.

The AfD wants to commemorate war victims, preserve the World War I memorials and pay for the search for unburied war dead. They are to receive a dignified burial.

The AfD wants to remember those who died in wars. Old war memorials should stay. Many dead soldiers still lie on old battlefields. The AfD wants to pay to find them. They should get a proper grave.

Remembrance is to include victims of all eras from the Thirty Years' War to World War II. In recovering the dead, the platform makes no distinction between soldiers of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. The party sees the dead as a reminder to live in peace with neighboring countries.