FDP on culture and media

The FDP wants cultural development planning and an expert commission to support the restart of cultural life after the pandemic and make the various arts sectors more crisis-proof. Public arts funding should be predictable and also open to small cultural businesses and solo self-employed people.

The FDP wants a plan for culture in the state. Experts should help culture get going again after Covid. The state should keep funding culture. Small businesses and single artists should also be able to get funding.

The cultural development planning is meant to respond to changed needs, mainly those caused by the pandemic, and set conditions for the future. In the FDP's view, the state's cultural life cannot be preserved without public money. Funding should become more efficient, and independent and municipal institutions of more than regional importance should be adequately funded. The FDP also wants to promote gender equity, diversity, and sustainability in culture more strongly and expand digital offerings and training for people working in the arts. The cultural and creative industries are to be developed further as a location factor and better networked.

The FDP wants targeted support for specific cultural institutions, including music schools, libraries, cinemas, and the state's arts universities. Cultural and media education and access to cultural institutions are to be treated as part of basic public services.

The FDP wants to support music schools, libraries, and cinemas. Libraries should become more digital. There should be a special program for cinemas. People who volunteer in culture should also get support.

Training of young musicians at music schools is to be expanded and secured. Libraries are to get help with going digital. For cinemas, the FDP plans a future program so that artistically ambitious films can also be seen outside urban centers. Volunteering in culture is to be strengthened for the long term because, in the program's view, it brings together people of different backgrounds and fosters tolerance. Flagship events such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and the state's two arts universities are also to receive support.

The FDP wants to convey the memory of the injustices of National Socialism and of East Germany through new forms, including digital ones, and give memorial sites more money. Jewish life in the state is to be protected and supported, and antisemitism firmly opposed.

The FDP wants people to remember history. Memorial sites should get more money. They should also offer digital formats. Jewish life should be protected. The FDP wants to act against hatred of Jews.

The program argues that each generation approaches history differently, so the way it is taught has to keep evolving. It calls for a remembrance culture that crosses national borders as well as digital and interactive formats, for example with augmented reality and educational games. Teachers and staff in memorial site education are to get better training in teaching methods. Prevention and education against antisemitism are to be anchored in cultural and museum planning, in schools, and in youth work.

The FDP wants more money for research into the origins of cultural objects, especially items from the colonial era. Looted artworks are to continue to be returned. In heritage protection, owners are to get more transparency and fair conditions.

The FDP wants to check where art in museums comes from. There should be more money for this. Stolen art should go back to its owners. Museums should also deal with the colonial era. That is the time when Germany ruled other countries.

The return of looted art is to move forward by supporting the institutions responsible for it. Funding for provenance research, meaning work to establish where objects came from, is to rise over the long term. Colonial-era holdings in the state's collections are to be examined as soon as possible and recorded digitally according to international standards. The FDP wants to strengthen heritage protection through more openness toward owners and fair conditions for preservation.

The FDP wants public broadcasting to focus on culture, education and information and wants a noticeable cut in the broadcasting fee. It does not count expensive formats that private broadcasters could also offer among its core tasks. Online, public broadcasters should not compete with private media on terms the party sees as unfair.

The FDP wants smaller public broadcasting. It should mainly offer culture, education and news. The broadcasting fee should go down. School students, university students and trainees should pay nothing. Online, it should not hurt private media.

Funding is to be reformed so that the fee falls noticeably and school students, university students and trainees are exempt. The telemedia remit, meaning the mandate for online services, is to be changed so that fee-funded free offerings do not compete with private ones on unequal terms. The interstate broadcasting treaty is to include rules against extremism and antisemitism. The FDP rejects quotas, such as for German-language music on the radio, as well as mandatory airtime for religious communities. It would welcome more Low German culture and more coverage of state politics.