Grüne on culture and media

The Greens want to implement the state's "Masterplan Kultur" and keep raising the culture budget to do so. A culture funding act would set guidelines for state support, and a culture advisory board would advise and connect the arts scene.

The Greens want to spend more money on culture. Hesse has a plan for culture. They want to carry out this plan. A new law should set rules for how the state funds culture. A board of people from the arts should give advice.

The program commits to the Masterplan Kultur as the guide for the coming years and wants to keep increasing the culture budget for it. A culture advisory board drawn from the arts scene would advise and network. A culture funding act would give the state's funding system a framework. Funding procedures are to be simplified and advisory services expanded. Following Baden-Württemberg's example, an "Innovation Fund for Art" would let cultural players try unusual ideas outside the normal funding rules.

The Greens want to improve artists' social security through fairer pay. The state is to lead by example, for instance with a minimum fee for exhibitions at state museums. There should also be more affordable studios and workspaces.

The Greens want artists to be paid better. State museums should pay a minimum fee for exhibitions. Funding rules should also demand fair pay. Artists should find cheap workspaces more easily.

Following the minimum fee at the state theaters, the program aims for a minimum payment for exhibitions at state museums. Fair fees for freelancers are to be written more firmly into the state's funding rules. People founding cultural cooperatives would get advice and have their start-up costs covered. The studio program is to grow, and vacant spaces are to be converted into "third places" for artistic use. The party also wants to make cultural institutions more crisis-proof, with funding programs for digitalization, renovation and accessibility and a permanent grant-application advisory service.

The Greens stand by documenta in Kassel and want a thorough reckoning with the antisemitic incidents at documenta fifteen. The expert panel's recommendations are to be implemented and the art show's structures reworked.

Documenta is a big art show in Kassel. The Greens want to keep it. At the last documenta there were anti-Jewish incidents. The Greens want these incidents examined closely. The way the show is run should be reorganized.

The program wants to implement the recommendations of the panel that reviewed the incidents. Management and artistic direction are to be clearly separated and the supervisory board broadened with more expertise. An advisory board that either side can call on in case of problems is also possible. The whole cultural sector is to be made more aware of antisemitism, including Israel-related antisemitism, and other forms of group-based hostility. The documenta Institute is to become a documenta Center with a secured archive and more educational work.

The Greens want to open the cultural sector to the whole of society. Women, queer people and groups that have been underrepresented are to become more visible in the arts, and institutions are to become more accessible and inclusive.

The Greens want culture to be there for everyone. Women and queer people should be more visible in the arts. Disadvantaged artists should get special support. Cultural venues should have fewer barriers.

Plans include empowerment programs for marginalized artist groups, stronger Ottilie Roederstein scholarships and archives on women in art, and support for feminist cultural policy. The exile program "Hafen der Zuflucht" (Harbor of Refuge) is to grow, and persecuted groups are to be supported in living their cultural identity. A funding and advisory program for accessibility is to be examined. The program "Arts in Intercultural Dialogue" is to be expanded and redesigned, and anti-racist cultural projects are to be supported. Town twinning is to be intensified.

The Greens want to end Hesse's ban on dancing on certain public holidays and days of remembrance. Religious ceremonies would still take priority on those days, and municipalities could prohibit individual events in public squares.

On some holidays, dancing is banned in Hesse. The Greens want to end this ban. Religious ceremonies should still come first on these days. Towns may forbid single events in public squares.

The ban is laid down in the Hessian Public Holidays Act and applies on the holidays and remembrance days named there. Under the program it would be dropped. To avoid lengthy court cases when conflicts arise, religious ceremonies get priority. Municipalities can prohibit events in public spaces case by case.

The Greens want to give more support to subculture and club culture, which have had little funding so far. A dedicated state funding line for artists and event organizers is to be set up.

Clubs and small music scenes get little money so far. The Greens want to change that. The state should fund artists and organizers. There should also be new ideas for supporting pop music.

A new state funding line is to make subculture and club events easier to put on. The program welcomes the recognition of clubs as cultural assets because it strengthens their protected status and can liven up city centers. Music funding is to be developed further. Concepts for supporting pop culture are also to be launched.

The Greens want to introduce a "Hessenpass Kultur und Freizeit" (culture and leisure pass) for people on low incomes that reduces admission prices statewide. In the party's view, out-of-school education should not depend on parents' money.

The Greens want to introduce a new pass. It is called the Hessenpass for culture and leisure. People with little money get it. With it they pay less for admission across Hesse. Young people should get into museums for free more often.

The pass is aimed at people with low incomes and is to apply throughout Hesse. State museums are to expand free access to exhibitions and their educational offerings for schools and for young people under 25. The Hessenpass is also meant to encourage municipal museums to offer more of this. The party wants to take into account the experience with the federal culture pass for 18-year-olds.

The Greens want to expand cultural offerings outside the metropolitan areas. The "Landkulturperlen" rural culture program is to grow statewide, regional culture managers are to be deployed, and sociocultural centers and mobile offerings are to get more funding.

There should be plenty of culture in the countryside too. The Greens want to fund more projects there. Every region should have culture managers. Touring theaters and festivals should get more money. Buses should bring rural people to the big theaters.

The Landkulturperlen program is to be expanded across the state, including micro-projects and links between local offerings and professional artists. Sociocultural centers, touring theaters, guest performances, rural arts and festivals are to receive more support. Together with the state theaters, "culture buses" are planned for visitors from outside the metropolitan area. When municipal fiscal equalization is reorganized, theater funding is to be better targeted and benefit Frankfurt's municipal theaters more. The party wants to enter talks about a state contribution to their new building.

The Greens want to preserve cultural monuments for the long term and found a "Hessische Bauhütte" (heritage building workshop) to do so. Museums, palaces and gardens are to get modern visitor concepts, and archives are to be digitized quickly.

The Greens want to preserve old buildings and monuments. A new building workshop should look after them. Skilled craftspeople work together there. Museums and palaces should become more modern for visitors. Archives should put their holdings in digital form.

The workshop is to pool key trades and build up expertise. The HERKULES cultural building program receives further funds. Heritage protection is to preserve old village centers and important monuments; where conflicts arise, for example with renewable energy, the guideline for routine approval of solar panels serves as a model. The state archives are also to collect the papers of groups that have been overlooked, such as the so-called guest workers.

The Greens want cultural institutions to operate in a more resource-saving way. Every state cultural institution is to draw up a sustainability plan, and a "Green Culture Pass" is to serve as a guide.

Cultural institutions should be kinder to the environment. Every state institution should write a plan for this. A guide should help them. It is called the Green Culture Pass.

The "Green Culture Pass" is to be developed with the state energy agency. The plans of state institutions are to cover climate, environment and social structures. State cultural associations get support to appoint sustainability managers. A plan for adapting historic buildings and gardens to climate change is also intended.

The Greens want to keep supporting museums in dealing with Nazi-looted art and collections from colonial contexts. Provenance research is to be expanded, and a legal framework for returns is to be created.

Museums hold objects from colonial times and art stolen in the Nazi era. The Greens want their origins researched more closely. There should be rules for giving things back. A new professorship should study colonial heritage in Hesse.

Provenance research, meaning research into where objects came from, is to grow for colonial holdings. Universities that want to help review collections will be supported. A tandem research professorship on colonial heritage in Hesse is planned, along with more exchange with the societies of origin. The findings are to feed into exhibitions and into the historical framing of monuments. The program also counts Hesse's migration history as part of remembrance culture.

The Greens want to keep alive the memory of the Shoah and of the genocide of Sinti and Roma and to counter antisemitism and antigypsyism. The state agency for civic education is to be strengthened.

The Greens want to remember the crimes of the Nazi era. They oppose hatred of Jews and of Sinti and Roma. Trips to memorial sites should get more support. The state agency for civic education should become stronger.

The state agency for civic education is to work more closely with the state institute for regional history and offer programs of its own for people with a migration background. In the former border area, projects dealing with the East German dictatorship are funded. Memorial site trips and new forms of remembrance are to be strengthened. Together with the federal government, an ensemble for the "Roma and Sinti Philharmonic" is to be supported, for example. A legally sound concept is planned for awarding events, with open-minded and democratic values as its basis.

The Greens want to preserve media diversity in Hesse and stand by public broadcasting funded through the license fee. The broadcasting council is to reflect society better, and nonprofit journalism is to find it easier to fund itself through donations.

The Greens want many different media in Hesse. Public broadcasting should still be paid for by the license fee. It should become more independent of politics. Nonprofit journalism should get donations more easily.

The program backs Hessischer Rundfunk in adapting to changes in media, slimming its administration and paying staff appropriately. Broadcasting is to be kept at a greater distance from politics, and audience organizations are to have more of a say. The Hessian Press Act is to be adapted to online publications. Citizen media associations and editorial networks are to be able to raise donations more easily as nonprofit journalism. Media literacy efforts are to become a joint campaign by those involved.

The Greens want to expand film funding in Hesse to make it a more attractive production location. Cinema funding is to be made permanent and refocused, especially to benefit cinemas in rural areas.

The Greens want to give more money for films from Hesse. Young filmmakers should get special support. Cinemas should get lasting money for investments. This applies above all to cinemas in the countryside.

Funding is to be quality-oriented, fast and practical, with special attention to new talent. Sustainability projects in film such as the "Prize for Sustainable Cinema" or "Green Shooting" are to be developed further. Investment support for cinemas is to be made permanent. A refocused cinema funding scheme is meant to strengthen diversity and bold programming and give film education a bigger role.