AfD on culture and media

The AfD wants more money for preserving monuments, especially for private owners, and wants to support local heritage and customs. It opposes what it sees as an ideological slant in the cultural sector. Protection of the German language would be written into the state constitution.

The AfD wants to spend more on old buildings and monuments. It wants to support customs and local culture. Museums should not rename artworks. The German language should be in Saxony's constitution.

Renamings of historical artworks in state museums would be reversed. Artworks such as the Benin Bronzes would go to other states only in justified exceptions, and only if the objects' safety is guaranteed. Museums would get better technical security, and attacks on monuments and churches would be strictly prosecuted. Music schools would be better equipped and gifted children supported regardless of their parents' income. The AfD affirms the Christian heritage and rejects tax money for politically one-sided cultural projects.

The AfD wants to terminate the interstate treaties on media and broadcast funding and fundamentally overhaul the MDR (the regional public broadcaster). No one should have to pay for a broadcasting service they do not use. The party considers public broadcasting insufficiently balanced and independent of the state.

The AfD wants to cancel the treaties on public broadcasting. No one should have to pay the broadcasting fee anymore. It wants to change the broadcaster MDR a lot. Parties should disclose their shares in media companies.

In the AfD's view, there is no reason in the internet age to favor public broadcasters over other providers. People employed by or under contract with public broadcasters would no longer receive government commissions. The internet should remain free of censorship except for criminal content. Saxony's press law would require parties to disclose stakes in media companies; the platform points to the SPD's newspaper holdings.