AfD on culture and media

The AfD wants to protect the German language as a cultural asset and emphasize German as the language of instruction in schools and universities. It rejects language courses in immigrant languages; migrants who want to stay permanently should master spoken and written German.

The AfD wants to protect the German language. Schools and universities should teach in German. The AfD rejects courses in the languages of immigrants. People who want to live in Germany for good should speak and write German.

The platform opposes the growing use of English terms and state interference in how the language develops. Knowledge of German should be a requirement for taking part in classes. In the AfD's view, anyone who refuses to learn German is refusing to integrate.

The AfD commits to a German Leitkultur (guiding culture) and wants state incentives to preserve cultural heritage. Funded cultural institutions and associations should be politically neutral, and what the party sees as one-sided funding should end. A new school subject, "Heimatkunde" (local and homeland studies), would also cover the history of Germany's former eastern territories.

The AfD wants to keep German culture as the guiding culture. The state should give incentives for this. Clubs and cultural venues that get state money should be politically neutral. Schools should get a new subject about the homeland. It should also cover former German areas in the east.

According to the platform, the guiding culture rests on Christianity, the Enlightenment and humanism; the AfD sees multiculturalism and parallel societies as a threat. Citing the state's authority over culture, it rejects content requirements in federal or EU funding programs. Integration measures it considers ineffective would be scrapped. The party says associations devoted to German language and culture currently receive almost no money. Victims of the inner-German border should be remembered, and universities should teach more about the history and culture of Germans in areas such as East Prussia and Silesia.

The AfD wants to abolish the broadcasting fee and shrink public broadcasting to a free "Grundfunk" (basic service) with about one tenth of today's programming. It would be funded by levies on corporations that distribute audiovisual content and offer streaming. The internet should be free of censorship except for criminal content.

The AfD wants to end the broadcasting fee. Public broadcasters should become much smaller. Only about one tenth of the programs would remain. Streaming companies should pay for it. There should be no censorship online, except for crimes.

The basic service would air neutral content from news, culture, education and regional sports and carry no advertising. Until then, broadcasters should strictly follow the Interstate Media Treaty and report without political or ideological influence. The party says it stands for a diverse media landscape that allows all opinions.