AfD on culture and media

The AfD wants to terminate the NDR state treaty and the Medienstaatsvertrag (interstate media treaty) and abolish the broadcasting fee. Today's public broadcasting would be replaced by a small "Grundfunk" (basic broadcaster) limited to information, education, culture and regional coverage.

The AfD wants to abolish the broadcasting fee. The state should end the treaties for the public broadcaster NDR. There should only be a small basic broadcaster. It should offer news, education, culture and regional reports.

The platform calls public broadcasting too expensive and too large and points to an annual budget of more than eight billion euros. Active career politicians would no longer be allowed to sit on the broadcasting council. Assets the basic broadcaster does not need would go into a wind-down fund. That fund would pay for pensions and socially responsible staff reductions.

The AfD rejects the plan to privatize the Redefin state stud farm and wants to keep it in public hands. The platform justifies this with the stud's importance as a cultural asset and part of the state's history. At the same time, it is to be strengthened economically.

The Redefin state stud is an old horse farm owned by the state. There is a plan to sell it. The AfD is against that. The farm should stay with the state. More visitors should bring it more money.

The platform describes Redefin as one of Germany's most important historic stud farms, shaping breeding, equestrian sport, and Mecklenburg's identity for more than 200 years. It envisions new marketing concepts, more tourism promotion, and additional events. Partnerships with the tourism sector, more rights of way for horses, and inclusion in state marketing are meant to improve the stud's revenue.

The AfD wants to anchor the protection of historic monuments in the constitution so it carries more weight, especially against energy projects. Funding for historic buildings and resources for the state heritage office would increase. Public buildings would follow a regional architectural style.

The AfD wants to protect old buildings better. Protecting monuments should be written into the constitution. Then it counts more when energy plants are planned. The state should give more money for old houses. Memorials for dead soldiers should also get money.

Municipalities should be able to step in early, before damage to old houses, farms, and manor houses becomes irreparable, and renovations would receive targeted funding. The responsible state office would get more staff and money, and funds for cultural heritage would rise substantially. The platform provides separate funding to maintain and restore war memorials so their upkeep does not depend on local budgets. Public buildings would in future follow what the AfD calls an architectural 'Heimatstil' (regional traditional style), because it sees modern architecture as faceless.

The AfD wants to give archaeological finds more public visibility and open up the megalithic tombs for rural tourism. It supports a state archaeological museum but rejects the current design and calls for a more cost-efficient solution.

The state has very old tombs made of huge stones. The AfD wants more tourists to visit them. It also wants to build a museum for old finds. It rejects the current plan for the museum. The museum should cost less.

The platform points to finds from the Bronze Age and the Middle Ages that it says deserve more attention. The megalithic tombs would become part of a tourism plan for rural areas. For the museum, the AfD wants the focus to be on honoring cultural heritage. It calls the existing design a failure and says it serves the self-promotion of architects and local politicians.

The AfD wants cultural funding to focus on German and European culture, especially Low German folk art and the Plattdeutsch language. Projects it considers ideologically motivated would be reviewed. It backs the Theaterpakt MV (state theater agreement) and wants to secure the work of music schools.

The AfD mainly wants to support German and European culture. Plattdeutsch, the Low German language, matters most to it. It sees some projects as too political. It wants to review them. Theaters, orchestras, and music schools should stay.

The platform regards theater, music, and dance as part of a people's cultural identity. It singles out the legacy of the writer Fritz Reuter. When reviewing projects, historical accuracy and strengthening cultural identity would be the yardstick. Theaters and orchestras would be funded within the state budget's limits so that the quality and range of what they offer is secured. For music schools, the AfD sees municipalities, the state, and parents as jointly responsible and wants to examine whether the state can contribute more.