Grüne on culture and media

The Greens want to set up an emergency fund for arts and culture and preserve cultural buildings through a renovation drive. The state is to remain a reliable partner for cultural institutions and municipalities even when budgets are tight.

The Greens want an emergency fund for arts and culture. It gives money to cultural venues in hard times. Old cultural buildings are to be repaired. The state should help towns and cities with this.

The platform notes that the strained finances of many municipalities put local cultural offerings at risk. The state and municipalities are to cooperate closely, and the way funding is split between them is to be changed where needed. State institutions of international standing are to be funded well enough to allow fair pay and secure jobs. An investment grant is to help clubs, festivals and institutions buy things like modern lighting and stage equipment, and institutions are to get help drawing up sustainability strategies. Small stages in rural areas are to receive particular support.

The Greens want to improve conditions for clubs, live music and pop culture through less red tape, planning certainty and protection for existing cultural venues. The POPLÄND funding program is to be expanded, and small venues are to be supported by a fund fed by a ticket levy on large events.

The Greens want to protect clubs and live music venues. There should be less paperwork for them. The POPLÄND funding program is to grow. Small stages are to get money from a new fund.

POPLÄND is to be extended with dedicated programs for collectives, independent promoters and scene initiatives. These are to get easy access to spaces, funding and advice on awareness, safety and sustainability plans. At the federal level, the Greens want to push for better rules for subcultural spaces, clubs and live music venues. They back the idea of a "Live Music Fund" financed by one euro per ticket for large events. Further support for smaller venues is to be tested in pilot projects.

The Greens want to award a yearly prize to owner-run bookstores. It is meant to honor shops with a strong cultural commitment, since the platform sees them under pressure from online retail and rising costs.

The Greens want a new prize for bookstores. It is given every year. It goes to shops with good ideas and many events. This is meant to draw more attention to small bookstores.

The platform describes owner-run bookstores as cultural meeting places in town centers and villages. The prize is to go to shops that stand out for cultural engagement, new concepts or a strong events program. It is intended to provide recognition and visibility and to strengthen local cultural diversity.

The Greens want to give clubs and associations more relief from GEMA costs and administrative burdens so that festivals and events become easier to hold. At the federal level they are pushing to exempt associations from GEMA fees and from sales tax.

Clubs pay fees to GEMA when they play music. The Greens want to ease this burden. Clubs should also have less paperwork. This makes festivals easier to hold.

GEMA collects fees for the public use of music. The platform justifies the relief by pointing to the importance of Christmas markets, club festivals and music in the state. At the federal level, the Greens want simpler procedures for changes to the register of associations and exemptions for associations from GEMA fees and sales tax. Amateur culture, including amateur music, local heritage and traditional customs, is to keep receiving support.

The Greens want young people, whatever their educational path, to be able to visit theaters, movie theaters, museums and concerts easily. Free admission for children and teenagers to the permanent collections of the state museums is to continue.

Young people should be able to go to theaters, movies, museums and concerts easily. This should apply to students and apprentices alike. Children and teenagers will still get into state museums for free.

The aim is to strengthen cultural education and participation across social and regional divides. The Center for Cultural Participation is to be further strengthened, and cultural education is to be supported across several ministries. The platform regards the state museums as places of research, education and science communication and wants to put them on a solid footing for the future.

The Greens want to return unlawfully acquired cultural objects to their rightful owners or countries of origin and to keep researching where museum objects came from. Remembrance culture is to become more visible across the state.

Some museum objects were acquired unjustly. The Greens want to give these objects back. Museums should check where their objects come from. Remembering history should also become more visible.

The platform sees the state as a leader in provenance research, meaning research into the origins of objects, and in restitution. Museums and academic collections are to continue examining the origins of their holdings transparently. The overall strategy "Koloniale Verantwortung" (colonial responsibility), which involves museums, universities and archives, is to be strengthened. Local initiatives, museums and educational sites are to get support for regional projects. The stated goal is that history is not reinterpreted and that young people do not turn away.

The Greens want to create a digital infrastructure for culture that links museum data and makes it usable. It is also meant to provide room for AI applications tailored to the cultural sector.

The Greens want to build a digital network for culture. It connects data from museums. AI tools for culture are to be developed there too. Everyone should be able to use it easily.

According to the platform, digital culture should be designed across institutions and internationally. Existing tools are to be made available as open source, meaning with openly accessible code. A space for research and development is to be added. Digital access is to be barrier-free and easy to reach.

The Greens want to strengthen libraries as open places for education and community and connect them through a statewide digital platform. The funding program for libraries in rural areas is to be kept.

Libraries are meeting places for everyone. The Greens want to strengthen them. A digital platform is to connect all libraries in the state. Rural libraries will keep getting funding.

Municipalities, churches and other operators are to be able to join the platform easily, so that cultural education is available regardless of where people live. Libraries and their staff are to be offered advice on strategic development. The platform envisions libraries adding film, gaming and event formats. Funding lines for new concepts such as learning labs, makerspaces or language cafés are to be examined.

The Greens want to strengthen regional journalism and turn the existing subsidy for television broadcasters into general journalism funding. They argue that democracy needs an informed public and independent media.

The Greens want to support local news. Today the state gives money for television. In the future the money should be for journalism in general. The party says democracy needs good news reporting.

The platform commits to the coexistence of private and public broadcasters and to a strong state media authority. It also considers EU-wide cultural channels such as ARTE important. Independent, decentralized social networks such as Mastodon and the Fediverse are to be supported.