Grüne on culture and media

The Greens want to convert the buildings of cultural institutions to be climate neutral. In their view, the ecological transition is not only a matter of technology but also of culture and aesthetics.

Theaters, museums and other cultural buildings should no longer harm the climate. The Greens want to convert these buildings. They say climate protection is also a question of culture. Bremen should take part in this debate.

Bremen is to take part in national and global debates on the relationship between aesthetics and sustainability. The European initiative "New European Bauhaus" is to be examined for Bremen. The platform treats this debate as part of climate policy.

The Greens want cultural offerings to reach people of every age, gender, level of education and neighborhood. Cultural education, events in unusual places and culture in the districts are meant to help. A culture ticket for apprentices and longer library opening hours are also planned.

All people should be able to enjoy culture. There should be culture in every neighborhood. There should also be events in parks or in nursing homes. Apprentices should get a cheap culture ticket. Libraries should be able to open on Sundays too.

Modeled on the Kultursemesterticket (culture ticket for university students), a culture ticket for apprentices is to be introduced. The Open Library concept is to be rolled out as widely as possible, and Sunday opening of libraries is to be made possible. The party wants to introduce participation research and surveys of people who do not attend cultural events, and to make participation a criterion for funding. Culture is to be a fixed part of urban development, and initiatives creating new cultural venues in neighborhoods are to be funded. People are to be encouraged to become artistically active themselves.

The Greens want libraries to be accessible for longer, including on Sundays and outside regular opening hours. Families and shift workers, among others, are meant to benefit. A new branch of the city library is to be set up in Bremen-Blumenthal.

The Greens want libraries to be open longer. They should also open on Sundays. This helps families and shift workers. Blumenthal should get a new library.

For off-peak hours during the week, the platform relies on the Open Library model, where services can be used even when no staff are present. For Sunday opening, the Greens want a legal arrangement for library employees and additional staff. The platform sees a gap in coverage in the north of Bremen, which a well-equipped branch in Blumenthal is meant to close.

The Greens want to make culture easier to access and create cultural centers in every district, for example by opening up school facilities. Cultural funding is to be guided more strongly by whether offerings reach many different groups of people.

The Greens want culture in every district. Schools should open their rooms for this. The city should ask people which offerings they miss. The culture ticket should become better known.

Schools are to open not only gyms but also auditoriums, group rooms and rehearsal rooms for cultural use, supported for instance by additional janitors. Initiatives for low-threshold culture in neighborhoods are to receive more funding, and the use of culture and education coordinators will be examined. Research on cultural participation is to survey people who do not currently use cultural offerings. The platform favors major cultural investments mainly in youth, pop, subculture and club culture. The Bremen Kulturticket (discount culture pass) is to become better known and include pop concerts, and a one-stop agency with a single funding pot is to reduce paperwork for providers of cultural education.

The Greens want to introduce a club register so that music venues and other cultural sites are taken into account in planning and not pushed out. They stand by the Freiluftpartygesetz (open-air party law) and want to make temporary cultural uses easier.

The Greens want to protect clubs. A list should show all clubs and cultural places. Then the city can consider them in building plans. Open-air parties should stay possible.

The platform stands by the agent-of-change principle, under which newly arriving uses must accommodate existing ones. Bremen is to make full use of an experimentation clause in building law planned by the federal government, and the Greens also favor revising the TA-Lärm noise regulation. New clubs and venues are to receive support. Non-commercial parties run by collectives should not be hampered by stricter requirements, and the party wants to resolve conflicts through dialogue with the scene. Parking lots and parks are to be easier to use for free cultural events.

The Greens want to set up a permanent festival site in Bremen and provide basic funding for its operator and upkeep from the cultural budget. This is meant to make festivals easier to run and boost Bremen's reputation in the scene. Conditions for independent artists are also to improve.

The Greens want a fixed place for festivals in Bremen. The city should pay for it. This makes festivals easier. Independent artists should also get better conditions.

The site is to be built at a suitable location, with basic funding for the operating body and maintenance provided as cultural funding. The party is examining ways to finance art in public spaces, including urban arts. The Greens back artists in their call for minimum fees and want to look for ways to set up permanent funding programs.

The Greens call for a strategy on remembrance culture and want to give the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (state agency for civic education) more money and staff for it. The memory of Nazi crimes is to remain tangible for younger generations even once the last witnesses are gone.

The Greens want a plan for remembering history. The state agency for civic education should get more money and staff. Young people should learn about the crimes of the Nazi era. The history of queer people should also become better known.

In the west of Bremen, a center of arms production and forced labor, an overall concept is to be developed with local groups. The party will examine whether another memorial site is possible there alongside the Denkort Bunker Valentin. Queer remembrance culture is to be strengthened, including in history classes. The administration is to get a staffed unit responsible for remembrance initiatives. The party also wants to examine how prevention of sexist or racist assaults can be better built into plans for large events.

The Greens want to create a documentation center in Bremen on colonialism and its lasting effects. Colonial traces in the cityscape are not to remain unchanged but to be put in context and critically addressed.

The Greens want to build a center about colonial times. People can remember and learn there. Statues from that time should get an explanation. The city should show that it rejects that policy today.

The center is to be a central place for remembrance and documentation on colonialism and colonial continuities. For artworks and statues with a colonial background, that background is to be made visible. In addition, public spaces are to show at least as clearly that the policy of that time is rejected from today's perspective.

The Greens want to list available squares and spaces downtown in an online exchange and hold a regular “Möglichkeitenmesse Innenstadt” (downtown opportunities fair). This is meant to help artists and cultural groups find spaces in the center. According to the platform, many of them have so far preferred vacant properties outside downtown.

The Greens want a website listing free spaces downtown. Artists can find suitable places there. There should also be a regular fair. Artists and building owners can meet there.

The exchange is to show open-air sites, public spaces, and privately owned properties with short profiles and possible uses. The platform cites Berlin's “Draußen Stadt” directory as a model. The fair is to include an open tour of vacant spaces. Owners could discuss project ideas with many interested parties at once.

The Greens want more downtown offerings for younger people and for those less drawn to classical culture. Successful cultural projects are to be supported as they become established. For the Güterbahnhof (a cultural site at the former freight station), the platform calls for long-term planning security and financial help.

The Greens want more culture for young people downtown. This includes concerts, clubs, and studios. Good projects should get help. The artists at the Güterbahnhof should be able to stay there safely.

The platform sees a gap in pop concerts, clubs, community cultural centers, and studios and galleries for young artists. The goal is a cultural policy focused on participation and diversity. At the Güterbahnhof, planning security is meant to allow investment in infrastructure and better use of the site. The temporary use of the Jakobushaus by subcultural groups is to remain guaranteed at least at its current scale.

The Greens affirm press freedom and public broadcasting and want its oversight bodies to work better. At Radio Bremen, two citizens chosen by lot would join the broadcasting council, and an audience council would be created.

The Greens want to keep public broadcasting. But the broadcasters should be checked more closely. At Radio Bremen, two people picked by lot should join the broadcasting council. That council watches over the station. An audience council should advise the station.

The platform cites incidents at the broadcasters rbb and NDR and the growing duties of broadcasting councils as the reason. Through the Medienstaatsvertrag (interstate media treaty), the Greens want to improve the expertise and acceptance of council members. The members chosen by lot at Radio Bremen would represent license-fee payers, and the audience council would be modeled on citizens' assemblies. Radio Bremen would be strengthened, with a focus on young talent and media literacy. The party wants to keep funding community media.

The Greens want to support writers, journalists, and researchers who have fled their countries with fellowships. The planned Literaturhaus (house of literature) would get a center for exile literature.

Some writers and researchers have to flee war and persecution. The Greens want to help them in Bremen. They should get fellowships. A fellowship is money to live and work. The new house of literature should have a place for their books.

The center for exile literature would be added to the Literaturhaus within the "Stadtmusikantenhaus" project. The local literary and cultural scene, the future operators of the house, and national institutions would take part in the planning. A fellowship program for authors in need would build on this. The party wants to keep funding the existing fellowship program for politically persecuted researchers.