CDU on culture and media

The CDU wants to anchor the regional and minority languages more firmly in daycare centers, schools, universities and the media. To do so, it plans to implement and further develop the state's language policy action plan.

People in the state also speak Low German, Frisian and Danish. The CDU wants to strengthen these languages. Children should be able to learn them in daycare and school. There should be more teaching material. The languages should also appear more often in the media.

Plans include more model schools for the three languages and new teaching material in Low German and Frisian. Training and continuing education options for Frisian teachers are to grow. The existing Low German network of centers, university programs and associations is to be strengthened, as is cooperation with the Frisian Council and Frisian associations. The CDU relies on the new NDR broadcasting treaty to give the languages a larger media presence. The action plan also covers educational counseling for German Sinti and Roma.

The CDU wants to conclude a culture pact with the municipalities and raise public spending on culture to the average of Germany's larger territorial states by 2030. A matching fund is to add one euro from the state for every additional euro municipalities spend on culture.

The CDU wants to spend more money on culture. The state and the towns should do this together. By 2030 the state should spend as much as other large states do on average. If a town spends one more euro, the state adds one euro.

The state and municipalities are to share responsibility for outstanding cultural venues and basic cultural and educational services close to home. Cultural development plans are to be drawn up at the municipal level. Multi-year funding is meant to provide reliability and prevent lasting damage from the coronavirus pandemic. Cultural associations, especially in rural areas, are to receive more money. Cultural and educational venues are to become accessible and inclusive, and a dedicated program will support offerings aimed at a broader audience.

The CDU wants to help artists and cultural institutions go digital and build a digital House of State History. State history would then be accessible from anywhere and, in the party's view, strengthen cohesion and understanding of democracy.

The CDU wants to bring more culture online. Museums should get help with digital exhibitions. There should be a digital House of State History. Anyone can explore the state's history there online. Later, real places across the state will be added.

The Center for Digitalization and Culture at the state library is to keep growing. A digital platform is planned where people working in culture can network and coordinate. Digital and interactive exhibitions and virtual reality applications are to receive support. The kulturfinder.sh app and the kultursphäre.sh project are to be expanded and linked with other projects. In a second step, the digital House of State History is to be connected with physical sites.

The CDU wants to renovate stages, halls and theaters in cities and rural areas and keep supporting cinemas, museums and memorial sites. Fairs, folk festivals and country inns are also to be preserved as part of the cultural landscape.

The CDU wants to repair theaters, concert halls and stages. Cinemas should also get help. Museums and memorial sites should keep developing. There should be a fixed place to remember Germany's division. The CDU also wants to keep folk festivals and country inns.

The program calls for investment in venues in large cities and in rural areas alike. State museums and memorial sites are to be developed further, and remembrance of Germany's division is to get a permanent place in the state. The cultural hubs in rural regions are to keep receiving money and become better known. Fairground operators are to get help where needed so traditional festivals continue. The CDU regards country inns as village community houses and therefore worthy of support.

The CDU wants to preserve and renovate major venues in the state, including Lübeck's Musik- und Kongresshalle (MUK) and the concert hall in Kiel Castle. Theaters are to get state help with investments, and independent theaters are to receive multi-year funding.

The CDU wants to keep theaters and concert halls in the state. Old buildings are to be repaired. This includes the music hall in Lübeck and the concert hall in Kiel Castle. Small independent theaters are to get money too.

The platform names the theaters in Kiel and Lübeck and the Landestheater (state touring theater) with its various venues as recipients of support for upcoming investments. A dedicated venue for the Landestheater is to be built in the town of Schleswig. Independent theaters are to keep receiving multi-year project funding. The CDU also wants to carry out needed renovations at open-air stages.

The CDU wants to introduce a law on funding music schools and expand music schools in every county. In the party's view, children should be introduced to music from an early age.

The CDU wants a law for music schools. The law is meant to support them. There should be more music schools all over the state. Children should get to know music early.

Music schools are to be expanded statewide, especially with offerings as part of all-day schooling. The Landesmusikakademie (state music academy) is to become a center of expertise for music education. Working with the Allianz für Lehrkräftebildung (alliance for teacher training), the CDU wants to train more music teachers this way.

The CDU wants to keep modernizing the state museums and make the state's memorial sites more professional. A site commemorating the division of Germany is to be established in Lübeck-Schlutup.

The CDU wants to modernize the state museums. Memorial sites should be able to work better. A new site is planned in Lübeck-Schlutup. It will remember the time when Germany was divided.

The state's existing plan for memorial sites is to be continued. The planned site in Lübeck-Schlutup is to be linked with the Grünes Band (Green Belt along the former inner-German border) and with other projects, especially in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The CDU also wants to move the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology into the Leibniz Association, a network of non-university research institutes.

The CDU wants to develop libraries into meeting places and permanently secure the Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) as places for lifelong learning. Cultural institutions are to become more accessible.

The CDU wants to turn libraries into meeting places. People should meet and talk there. Adult education centers should stay for good. Cultural venues should be easy for everyone to use.

The basic education centers at the Volkshochschulen are to be secured. The CDU wants to give more support and visibility to the Kulturknotenpunkte, regional hubs for cultural work. Accessibility is to improve in all cultural institutions, both in the buildings and in how content is presented. The party also wants to preserve rural inns.

The CDU wants to protect historic monuments while keeping them usable. Authorities are to decide consistently across the state, and in the party's view requirements should not block investment. Owners are to get better review options and earlier notice.

The CDU wants to protect old buildings. But people should still be able to use them. Offices across the state should decide the same way. Owners should learn early when their house is listed. Rules should not make investing impossible.

Consistent decisions are to apply to conflicts with climate protection, energy retrofits, fire safety and accessibility, and to requirements on materials and colors; the CDU will examine rules below the level of statute for this. The party wants to review staffing at heritage authorities so that procedures move faster. Contract-based heritage protection, meaning agreements with owners instead of official orders, is to be tested. Also planned are an academy for heritage conservation, ideally together with other states, and digital public access to data on listed monuments. The platform cites the current investment program for cultural heritage as a basis.

The CDU backs strong public broadcasting focused on information, education, culture and advice. The broadcasting fee is to be set through an index model in the future; students, trainees and people doing voluntary service would no longer pay it.

The CDU wants strong public broadcasting. It should mainly inform and educate. The broadcasting fee should follow an index. That means it is tied to a fixed measure. Students, trainees and volunteers should pay nothing.

Entertainment programs are to reflect the stated focus areas. Broadcasters are to cooperate more closely, save money that way and operate efficiently. They are to get more leeway to convert linear programming into online offerings more easily. Content in the online media libraries is to stay available as long as possible, and the CDU wants to strengthen regional coverage together with NDR.

The CDU wants to preserve a diverse regional media landscape and will examine new forms of support for the press. It also wants to promote media literacy, advance digital radio and build up the state as a film location.

The CDU wants to keep many different media in the state. Regional newspapers should be able to get help. People should learn to judge media content well. Radio should go digital. More films should be made in the state.

Private broadcasters, platforms and intermediaries are to make content with public value and a regional focus easy to find; the CDU plans economic incentives for this. The digital radio standard DAB+ is to become the sole standard. With the federal government and the states, the party wants to support the digital shift of the regional press and win young newspaper readers through school projects. Media concentration law is to be modernized and no longer centered mainly on television. Media education is to begin in daycare and school, and the Offener Kanal (public-access channel) is to expand citizen radio and citizen media. The state is to become an internationally competitive film location.