Freie Wähler on culture and media

The Free Voters want to support volunteering and clubs, among other things through higher tax allowances and more security for board members on liability. Customs, dialects and the so-called sensory heritage are to be preserved and protected. The independent arts scene and club sports are also to get more support.

The Free Voters want to strengthen clubs and volunteering. Volunteers should pay less tax. Club board members should be better protected if something goes wrong. Customs and dialects should stay. No one should be able to sue over church bells or cowbells.

Tax allowances for volunteers are to rise, and club board members are to be better protected in liability matters. Customs and dialects are to be preserved, and local history and cultural education strengthened in school curricula. Through a nationwide initiative the party wants to protect sensory heritage, meaning customary local sounds and smells such as church bells, cowbells or bakery aromas, which should not be open to lawsuits. The independent arts and culture scene is to get less red tape and long-term funding, and amateur theater more support. In sports, clubs are to be supported and sports facilities and swimming pools maintained and newly built. Associations of Germans expelled after World War II are to receive more funding, and flight and expulsion more attention in schools.

The Free Voters consider public broadcasting important but want it to focus on its core tasks and be organized more efficiently. Surpluses from the broadcasting fee would be used to lower the fee, and local stations would get more funding.

The Free Voters think public broadcasting is important. But it should stick to its most important tasks. If money from the broadcasting fee is left over, the fee should go down. Local TV stations should get more money.

Surpluses from the fee would consistently go toward lowering it. Businesses with several locations or company vehicles would no longer pay multiple times. Citizens would be represented more effectively on the broadcasting and media councils, and reporting should be objective and comprehensive. For local television, the platform plans more technical and programming support.