AfD on culture and media

The AfD wants to preserve inherited traditions and the country's culture and rejects a multicultural society. Politics should be guided by the well-being of the country's own people and citizens.

The AfD wants to keep traditions and culture. It rejects a multicultural society. That is a society where many cultures live side by side. Politics should serve the country's own citizens first.

The platform describes homeland, identity and freedom as the basis for new ideas, entrepreneurship and hard work. In the AfD's view, tradition and progress belong together. The party says it is open to the world while wanting to remain German. Politics should not follow ideology, the spirit of the times or lobby interests. According to the platform, standing up for one's own includes solidarity with other people and nations.

The AfD wants to protect the German language as the core of national culture and opposes its displacement by English in public agencies, universities, and companies. It rejects gender-inclusive language and politically correct language rules. Reading and conversation are to be promoted, especially among young people.

The AfD wants to protect the German language. Public offices and universities should not switch to English. The AfD is against gender-inclusive language. Young people should read more. Fixed prices for books should stay.

The party criticizes the frequent use of English loanwords as inappropriate for a language community of nearly 100 million people. It sees reading and conversation as a counterweight to sensory overload and digital media that strengthens education, judgment, and concentration. It regards fixed book prices as non-negotiable. For integrating immigrants who are willing and able to integrate, the AfD gives top priority to advanced language learning.

The AfD considers German remembrance culture too narrowly focused on the 20th century and wants to extend it across many centuries, including positive sides of national and regional history. All school buildings in the state are to fly the black-red-gold flag regularly. It rejects renaming streets based on present-day standards.

The AfD wants to remember history in a different way. It should not only be about the 20th century. Good sides of German history should also be included. The German flag should fly regularly at all schools. Streets should keep their old names.

The view of history is to name past injustice and at the same time build identity. Conversations with eyewitnesses who were victims of the SED regime in East Germany are to have a fixed place. The AfD sees a public interest in accessible museums, archives, and libraries, in monuments, war cemeteries, historic townscapes, and days of remembrance. Small rural museums, libraries, and volunteer-run exhibitions are to receive more state aid. The Völklinger Hütte World Heritage industrial site is singled out for special appreciation.

The AfD wants to limit film funding mainly to domestic productions. It also wants to change the funding rules for theaters in order to push back what it sees as director-driven theater that ignores its audience.

The AfD wants to fund films from the home region. Other films should get little money. It also wants new money rules for theaters. The party thinks some theater plays ignore what the audience wants.

The platform counts filmmaking as part of cultural funding but wants the money to go mainly to domestic productions. The AfD calls heavily subsidized director-driven theater (Regietheater) a misguided development that should be ended through different funding rules. At the same time, cultural work should keep great figures and major works of European and world culture in the public mind.