CDU on culture and media

The CDU wants to develop the state's cultural policy further through a strategy with secure funding. Cultural offerings should be available throughout the state, since the party sees culture as a source of identity and cohesion.

The CDU wants to support culture across the state. There should be a clear plan with secure money. Music schools should get more help. Zoos should get state support. Buses should bring rural people to cultural sites.

The voluntary social year in the cultural sector would be strengthened, and music schools would get more money and staff support. Zoos would become a state responsibility and be funded accordingly, citing their zoo schools in Cottbus and Eberswalde. Culture bus lines would better connect rural areas with cultural centers. Local and folk festivals, festivals, and exhibitions would be supported, and historic buildings and gardens would be adapted to climate change.

The CDU wants to keep alive the memory of the Nazi era and the SED (East German communist) dictatorship and adapt it to the dwindling number of eyewitnesses. The Cottbus Human Rights Center would become the state's central memorial to injustice in the GDR.

The CDU wants people to remember the Nazi era and East Germany. Few eyewitnesses are still alive. So new ways of remembering are needed. Cottbus should get a main memorial for East German injustice. People should learn there about persecution.

The state commissioner for dealing with the legacy of the communist dictatorship would continue to receive support. New concepts would account for the shrinking generation of eyewitnesses. The Cottbus Human Rights Center would also be funded as a place for learning about political, racial, and religious persecution. The cultural heritage of historic East Brandenburg beyond the Oder and Neisse rivers, now in Poland, would be documented and researched.

The CDU wants to promote the language, culture, and identity of the Sorbs and Wends and fulfill the constitutional mandate to preserve their language. Low German should also be kept alive and passed on as cultural heritage.

The Sorbs and Wends live in Lusatia. They have their own language. The CDU wants to protect this language and culture. More teachers are needed for this. The old language Low German should also stay alive.

To secure enough teachers and educators, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg would offer teacher training in Lower Sorbian. The Witaj program for Sorbian in daycare and schools would continue, the language would be digitized, and Sorbian-language broadcasting would expand. The Foundation for the Sorbian People would be secured through an adequate funding agreement with the federal government. For Low German, the CDU plans a digital dictionary, modern teaching methods, and pilot projects in schools.