CDU on culture and media

The CDU wants to make Bremen more attractive at night, arguing that going-out options outside the Viertel and Neustadt districts have shrunk. It plans a night mayor and a program for clubs.

The CDU wants more places to go out in Bremen. There should be a night mayor. This person takes care of nightlife. Clubs should also get support.

The night mayor is to be responsible for the Viertel district and the Discomeile nightlife strip. A club program is meant, among other things, to revive the Discomeile as a party location. The CDU also wants to promote beach bars and waterfront venues. The city center is to be reachable from all parts of the city throughout the night.

The CDU wants to anchor the Bunker Valentin more firmly in Bremen's collective memory as a site commemorating Nazi crimes. To that end, all school classes in Bremen would be required to visit it.

The Bunker Valentin is a reminder of the crimes of the Nazi era. The CDU wants to make this place better known. All school classes in Bremen should have to visit it. It should also be easier to get there.

The platform describes the bunker as a place where people had to endure great suffering. It should no longer be on the margins. Access is to be improved, for example with a new boat landing. The party sees "never again" as both a legacy and a mandate for the future.

The CDU wants to organize cultural funding by thematic priorities and make it more reliable. Revenue from the Citytax (lodging tax) is to pay for a fund that doubles private donations to cultural foundations. Grants, training and joint state-level funding for Bremen and Bremerhaven are also planned.

The CDU wants to fund culture in a new way. The money should be reliable and last longer. A new fund should double private donations to cultural foundations. The money comes from the Citytax. That is a charge on hotel stays. Young artists should get grants.

Funding is to follow four categories, including the creative economy, education and remembrance, tradition and integration, and leisure and location. Successful projects are to move from pure project funding into a long-term funding structure. Up to four grants each in Bremen and Bremerhaven are planned, each paying 2,000 euros for six months. People starting a business in the cultural and creative sector are to get training, for example in finding sponsors. State-level funding is to link the cultural policy of both cities and open access to funds from the EU, the federal government and foundations.

The CDU wants to promote exchange between cultural venues, schools and nursing homes and make culture more visible in schools. Libraries, adult education centers and museums are to be better equipped as meeting places. Cultural organizations are to receive funding for sustainable and climate-friendly operations.

The CDU wants more culture in schools. Artists should help in class. Students should visit theaters and museums more often. Libraries should be open seven days a week. They should have good technology and places to work.

Artists are to support school lessons, and cultural institutions are to become places of learning outside school. The platform names the school work of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as a model. City libraries, adult education centers and museums are to get up-to-date technology and workspaces for working together. The open library approach is to be expanded so that these places can be used all week with a library card. Artists and institutions are to receive money for sustainable working conditions and productions.

The CDU wants artists to be paid on a mandatory basis when their work is shown in public exhibition venues. A fund of 100,000 euros is to enable the venues to pay. In doing so, the party backs the "Pay the artist" initiative of the artists' association BBK.

Artists show their work in exhibitions. Often they get no money for this. The CDU wants to change that. Public exhibition venues should have to pay artists. A fund of 100,000 euros should help.

The fund is to be managed by the culture department or by the BBK. It is to benefit publicly run exhibition venues as well as volunteer-run off-spaces and artist-run galleries. The platform argues that professional work must be paid professionally. The CDU also wants to invest more in supporting young talent and to assist cultural institutions through generational change. Established concerts and event formats such as the Musikfest Bremen are to be preserved.

The CDU wants to make the museums in Bremen and Bremerhaven more attractive and open them to research and the public through a digital culture strategy. The diversity of the theater landscape is to be preserved, and amateur theaters and the independent scene are to get more funding. The party also wants to support private commitment to culture.

The CDU wants to modernize the museums. People should also be able to visit museums online. The museums should get Wi-Fi. The theaters in Bremen and Bremerhaven should stay. Small and independent theaters should get more money.

Museums are to digitize their collections, research where objects came from and offer digital visits, which requires LAN and Wi-Fi. They are to present typical Bremen themes such as merchant and seafaring traditions and also deal critically with colonialism. A round table with museums, including volunteer-run ones, is to prevent closures and the loss of collections. The municipal theaters are to offer experimental theater as well as programs for a broad audience. The CDU wants to value and support patronage, sponsorship and volunteering in culture.

The CDU commits to Radio Bremen as an independent broadcaster within the ARD network. In the debates about the future of public broadcasting, it wants to secure the station's continued existence.

The CDU wants to keep Radio Bremen. The station should stay independent. It is part of the ARD network. The CDU wants to stand up for it when people argue about public broadcasting.

The program names strong media companies and independent public broadcasting as the basis for a diverse media landscape in Bremen and Bremerhaven. The CDU sees them as an asset for the region, a precondition for free reporting and a safeguard against fake news. Radio Bremen is to remain a modern and capable station within the ARD network.

The CDU wants to strengthen and better connect initiatives that build media literacy among children, young people and adults. It argues that people are increasingly becoming active participants on social media.

The CDU wants everyone to handle digital media well. This applies to children, young people and adults. Groups that teach this should get more support. They should also work together better.

According to the program, people are changing from media consumers into active participants in a world shaped by social media. This requires media education. Existing organizations and initiatives are therefore to be strengthened and linked up so that everyone can use digital media safely, responsibly and creatively.

The CDU wants to preserve regional news coverage and, where appropriate, add state money to federal support for newspaper distribution. Film and media funding through Nordmedia is to be reviewed and improved, with a focus on the games industry.

The CDU wants to keep regional newspapers. The state may help with money. The CDU also wants to check the funding for film and media. Companies that make computer games should get special attention.

The program points to the economic pressure on publishers and the falling circulation of daily newspapers. If the federal government provides money to support distribution, the CDU wants the state to reinforce it where needed. Through Nordmedia, Bremen funds film and media together with Lower Saxony. This funding is to be reviewed for its benefit to Bremen and Bremerhaven and improved.