Grüne on culture and media

The Greens want a state funding program for village festivals and other local gatherings. Village events would be eligible for up to 5,000 euros a year. In the party's view, such festivals hold rural communities together.

The Greens want to support village festivals with money. The state should set up its own program for this. A village could get up to 5,000 euros a year. The festivals should bring people in the village together.

The platform names annual funding of up to 5,000 euros for village events. The funding is meant to be simple and easy to access. The Greens argue that many places lack the means to organize community life. The party sees village festivals as carriers of tradition and social cohesion in rural areas.

The Greens want to strengthen the reckoning with the SED dictatorship (East Germany's ruling party) and fund it for the long term instead of cutting money. Teaching about the SED dictatorship, National Socialism and the Holocaust is to be mandatory in schools. The party argues that democracy becomes vulnerable when memory fades.

The Greens want people to remember the injustice in East Germany. Memorial sites and archives should get lasting funding. In school, everyone should learn about the East German dictatorship and the Nazi era. This should help people protect democracy.

Memorial sites, archives and initiatives are to receive reliable long-term funding. Modern educational formats for young people are to be developed together with regional places of remembrance. Projects that pass on personal experiences of injustice and resistance, both offline and digitally, are also to be supported. The platform stresses that Nazi crimes and the Holocaust are singular, while the reckoning with the SED is also part of a complete culture of remembrance.

The Greens want to make culture a mandatory public task by law, securing basic cultural provision in every region. Cultural venues are to be preserved, especially in rural areas, and state funding for artists and cultural workers improved.

The Greens want a culture law. The state would then have to fund culture. Movie theaters, libraries, and music schools should stay open in rural areas too. Artists should get more funding.

Based on the state's cultural policy guidelines, a culture law is to be drafted together with cultural workers, providing reliable funding and compensation for rising costs. Funding is to offer planning security over longer periods. Sociocultural meeting and education venues are to receive institutional funding, supplemented by an own-funds and liquidity fund that makes it easier to secure further grants. Cross-genre events such as festivals, concerts, or workshops are to be supported through funded staff positions. Libraries, movie theaters, art associations, and music and art schools are to be secured, particularly in rural areas.

The Greens want state subsidies to help music and art schools cover the higher cost of employing teachers on regular contracts. The background is the Herrenberg ruling, under which many freelance teachers may count as falsely self-employed. According to the platform, people working in culture should be able to do so without fearing for their livelihood.

Many teachers at music and art schools work as freelancers. A court ruled that this is often not allowed. So the schools have to hire them as regular staff. That costs more money. The Greens want the state to give the schools this money.

The state subsidies are meant to flow in the short term and cover the added social insurance contributions and travel allowances for employed teachers. Precarious employment arrangements are to end. Together with school operators and associations, a binding guideline is to be drawn up that defines what genuine self-employment looks like and how freelance contracts must be worded. In addition, cultural meeting places are to be planned into urban development from the start, for example when a new school is built.

The Greens want to develop libraries into open meeting places, especially for children and young people, and keep them open longer. For rural areas with few offerings, a mobile culture unit (Kulturmobil) is to run as a pilot project. The platform argues that cultural institutions are under pressure from rising costs and uncertain funding.

The Greens want to strengthen libraries. They should stay open longer. There should be more programs for children and young people. In rural areas, a culture bus should go from place to place. It brings culture to the villages.

Libraries are to add interactive and socio-cultural programs that promote reading, media literacy and cultural education. Closer cooperation with schools and other cultural institutions is also planned. The mobile culture unit is to start as a pilot project, and outreach cultural work is to receive targeted funding. In publicly funded venues, employee participation and work-life balance are to be guaranteed.

The Greens want to extend the state's Theaterpakt (theater funding pact) and change it so that funding rises with inflation and collectively agreed wages. This is meant to give the theaters and their staff planning security. Two more companies are to be added to the pact.

The state gives money to theaters. The rules are in the theater pact. The Greens want to extend this pact. The money should go up when prices and wages go up. Two more theater companies should get money from the pact.

Funding is to be adjusted on an ongoing basis to price increases and wage settlements. The Deutsche Tanzkompanie Neustrelitz and the Vorpommersche Landesbühne Anklam are to be newly included. The updated pact is also meant to secure fair working conditions at the venues. According to the platform, the goal is a reliable outlook for artists and employees.

The Greens want to give targeted support to the state's creative industries and make them more visible. The plans include a funding program for video games, permanent support for festivals and clubs, and a restructuring of film funding. In the platform's view, existing funding structures have gaps.

The Greens want to support creative jobs in the state. There should be money for making video games. Festivals and clubs should get more lasting money from the state. Film funding should be reorganized. A website should show all cultural offerings.

A program of 1 million euros is planned for games, funding game development, training and network building. It would come with a games commissioner as the central point of contact. State funding for cultural festivals and clubs is to be improved and made permanent, especially for staff costs. FILMLAND MV gGmbH is to be put on a viable footing, and the culture portal kultur-mv.de is to be modernized.

The Greens want to draw up a heritage strategy for the state that is backed by staff and money and accompanied by academic research. Historic buildings and sites are to be preserved, opened to the public and kept in long-term use. The platform points to costly renovations and support that is hard to access for municipalities and private owners.

The state has many old buildings, such as manor houses and churches. Many of them are at risk. The Greens want a plan to protect these monuments. Towns and builders should get help and money more easily. An old reactor in Lubmin should be kept.

The strategy is also meant to cover industrial history and combine maintenance and usage plans with digital and museum offerings. Builders, especially municipalities, should find it easier to preserve and renovate buildings that shape a town's appearance, including through financial help and quick decisions. Reactor block 6 of the former Lubmin nuclear power plant is to be kept. Future generations should be able to learn there about the technology and history of nuclear energy in East Germany.