Grüne on culture and media

The Greens want targeted support for regional media and local journalism, coordinated with the states. Nonprofit journalism is to be recognized in the tax code. The platform sees diverse media as a central space for democratic debate whose future must be secured in the digital era.

The Greens want to support local newspapers and broadcasters. The state should support the work of journalists. Nonprofit media should also get benefits. Nonprofit means they do not work for profit. The job of journalist should become more attractive and safer.

The support is to be coordinated with the states and aimed at the work of journalists. It should strengthen media diversity while protecting functioning markets. The party wants to add nonprofit journalism to the Abgabenordnung, the law governing tax-exempt nonprofit status. The profession is also to become more attractive and safer in order to attract young talent.

The Greens want to fund concentration camp memorials adequately and enable every student to visit a Nazi-era memorial site. Engagement with antisemitism and antiziganism is to be intensified. The platform points to the rise of historical revisionism and the passing of the generation of eyewitnesses.

The Greens want to remember the crimes of the Nazis. Memorial sites should get enough money. Every student should be able to visit a memorial once. The state should help pay for it. Remembrance should also include people with immigrant backgrounds.

Concentration camp memorials are to receive funds for preservation, research, multilingual educational programs and commemorative events. The files of the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes are to remain accessible in the long term. Nazi crimes against people with disabilities are to be further examined and victims compensated; on antiziganism, injustice after 1945 is also to be addressed. Programs such as “Jugend erinnert” are to be made permanent, and the party backs the documentation center on World War II and German occupation as well as the German-Polish House. Remembrance culture is to open up further to the reality of an immigration society.

The Greens want to continue addressing the injustice committed in the Soviet occupation zone and East Germany. Victims of the SED dictatorship are to gain easier recognition of long-term health damage. The Peaceful Revolution of 1989 is also to be remembered.

The Greens want to keep examining injustice in East Germany. A memorial for the victims should be built. Many victims still have health problems today. They should get recognition more easily. The courage of the people of 1989 should also be remembered.

The party wants to move ahead with the memorial to the victims of communist tyranny and the archive center on the SED dictatorship. Better conditions for recognition are to apply to health damage resulting from repression. Victims of the East German doping system are also to be rehabilitated and made eligible for claims. The party further backs the “Forum Opposition und Widerstand 1945–1990” and the Future Center for German Unity and European Transformation in Halle.

The Greens want to continue addressing Germany's colonial history, especially the genocide of the Herero and Nama, in dialogue with the affected countries. A center for learning and remembrance is to be created. Communities of origin are to be involved in the return of cultural objects and human remains.

Germany once had colonies. Great injustice happened there. The Greens want to keep examining this. There should be a center for learning and remembering. Stolen cultural objects should go back, and Germany should pay the costs.

A learning and remembrance center and local initiatives are meant to bring the reckoning to a wider public. In provenance research and the return of cultural objects and human remains, communities of origin are to be properly involved and the costs of restitution covered. The party wants to act against the trade in human remains. It also wants to examine how to deal with unjust rulings by German colonial courts.

The Greens want to write culture in its diversity into the Basic Law as a state objective. Cultural infrastructure is to be expanded so that culture is accessible wherever people live. The party sees free culture as part of democratic life.

The Greens want to protect culture in the constitution. Everyone should be able to enjoy culture. This also applies in rural areas. Clubs and concert venues should get better rules. The culture pass for young people should stay.

For rural areas the program names initiatives such as "Aller.Land". Clubs and live music venues would benefit from changes to noise rules, building law and commercial tenancy law, and soundproofing would get more funding. The Kulturpass, a credit for young people, would become permanent, and an expansion is under review. The large federal cultural institutions are to open up further. The Green Culture contact point would advise and fund cultural organizations moving toward sustainable operations. Cultural policy would be strengthened institutionally at the federal level.

The Greens want to complete the reform of film funding and create new support for games and small publishers. The independent scene is to receive more support through larger federal cultural funds. To counter market concentration in pop culture, the party relies on dialogue and regulation.

The Greens want to fund culture more. Films should get new rules and tax benefits. Video games and small publishers should also get money. Independent artists should get more help. The market for tickets and streaming should become fairer.

Film funding would include an investment obligation and tax incentives. For games, a tax-based subsidy is planned on top of existing programs. The festival fund would be extended with concept funding, advice and knowledge sharing, and the Jewish culture fund made permanent. Federal investment programs would include the independent scene and pop culture more. Funding guidelines are meant to help ensure that social diversity is represented in culture. Regulation is to bring fairer conditions in ticket sales and streaming revenues.

The Greens want to improve the social situation of cultural workers and secure the Künstlersozialversicherung (artists' social insurance) for the long term. Digital platforms would pay into this insurance. When protected works are used for AI, creators should be able to enforce their remuneration.

Many artists earn little. The Greens want to protect them better. Online platforms should pay into the artists' social insurance. Artists should get money when AI uses their works. AI means artificial intelligence.

Protection would improve for solo self-employed people, those with mixed employment and employees. Minimum fee levels in federal cultural funding would become permanent. For AI, the program names licensing or levy models as possible routes, along with transparency and recognizability of AI use. The effects of AI on working conditions, personality rights, data protection and copyright are to be reviewed. Libraries would open longer and be allowed to lend e-books much like printed books.

The Greens want to fund public broadcasting adequately so that it can keep developing in the digital space. In the platform's view, it offers orientation against disinformation and false reports. The Greens also back a European platform for public-service information content.

ARD and ZDF are public broadcasters. The Greens want to fund them securely. They should also work well online. Europe should get a shared platform.

In shaping the reforms, the Greens draw among other things on proposals from the commission that assesses the broadcasters' funding needs (KEF). The European platform would bring together public-service content from several countries and make it accessible. It is meant as an alternative to the existing purely commercial services.