Grüne on culture and media

The Greens want to revise Saxony's Sorbs Act. Sorbian language and culture are to be promoted not only in the traditional settlement area but across Saxony, because Sorbs live throughout the state. Sorbian schools are to be protected and strengthened.

The Sorbs are a minority in Saxony with their own language. The Greens want to protect their language and culture better. A law on this should be updated. Children all over Saxony should be able to learn Sorbian. There should be more signs and information in two languages.

Children outside the settlement area should be able to learn Sorbian in daycare, language courses, as an extra school subject or online. Public bilingualism is to be expanded further. The campaign "Sorbisch? Na klar" is to be extended to the whole state to inform people about Saxony's Sorbian roots and everyday bilingualism. Protecting the settlement areas and local support remain part of the plan.

The Greens want cultural workers to be paid fairly, both in theaters and orchestras and as solo freelancers in other fields. To that end, binding minimum fees are to apply in cultural funding.

The Greens want fair pay for people who work in culture. This applies to employees and to freelancers. Anyone who gets public funding should pay a minimum fee. A fee is the payment a freelancer gets.

The minimum fees are to become a binding part of the funding rules. The party also wants to look at the working conditions of people who are partly employed and partly self-employed. Artists who are parents or have a disability are to receive compensation for disadvantages.

The Greens want to develop the Kulturraumgesetz (Saxony's law on regional cultural funding) so that cultural offerings stay accessible across the state. State funds are to rise regularly and be reliably plannable. Funding programs are to become simpler and more transparent.

The Greens want to secure culture all over Saxony. The state should give more money for it on a regular basis. Theaters and orchestras should stay. New cultural groups should get a chance too. Applying for funding should become easier.

The Kulturraumgesetz governs the shared financing of regional culture in Saxony. Theaters and orchestras are to be preserved, and other fields and new organizations are to get opportunities. Advisory boards are to be reshuffled regularly, and structural funds may also be used for energy upgrades. The party wants sustainability criteria in funding rules, longer-term grants, and secure staffing in cultural administration. It also plans an office for cooperation with the state cultural associations, support for Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture 2025, and backing for the creative industries.

The Greens want everyone to have access to artistic and creative activity regardless of income. To achieve this, the ministries are to draw up a joint funding strategy, and a statewide coordination office is to be set up.

The Greens want all children to be able to make art and music. This should not depend on their parents' money. Music schools should get more support. There should be more art schools for young people. A new office should coordinate everything in the state.

The state concept for arts education is to be revised with broad participation. Music schools are to be strengthened financially and professionally. The JeKI program (an instrument for every child) is to be expanded into JeKITS, adding dancing and singing. Youth art schools are to be rolled out statewide, and sociocultural centers are to be strengthened as places of out-of-school learning.

The Greens want to recognize clubs as cultural venues and grant them grandfathered protection. The platform regards club culture, pop music, and open-air events as an important part of the cultural scene.

The Greens see clubs as places of culture. Clubs should get special protection. This should keep them from being pushed out. The state should pay for soundproofing. There should be one central contact office for pop music.

Clubs are to be given appropriate consideration in building and planning law. Soundproofing indoors and at open-air events is to be subsidized. A central contact office for popular music is planned. Small concert venues, stages for new talent, and fan cultures are to be supported, especially in rural areas.

The Greens want an ecological overhaul of the cultural sector and plan a dedicated funding program for it. Cultural funding is to be tied to energy efficiency, climate neutrality, and careful use of resources.

The Greens want culture to do less harm to the climate. There should be a new funding program for this. Cultural buildings should be built and renovated to be climate-neutral. A contact office should advise cultural institutions.

New cultural buildings and renovations are to be designed to climate-neutral standards. Carbon accounting in cultural institutions is to be expanded. A Saxon "Green Culture" contact office is to inform and advise cultural workers and network beyond the state.

The Greens want to turn public libraries into places for learning information and media skills and to give museums better support. Sociocultural centers are to be preserved statewide and funded on a permanent basis.

The Greens want to turn libraries into modern places of learning. People should learn there how to handle media. Small museums should get more help. Sociocultural centers should stay all over the state. These are neighborhood houses for culture and meeting people.

Municipalities are to get financial incentives when their institutions meet minimum standards. The state museum concept is to be implemented and regularly updated, and the state museum office is to give smaller museums more support. The Dresden State Art Collections are to be able to develop further, and the Japanisches Palais is to be renovated to house several museums and collections. Sociocultural centers are to be funded jointly by several ministries, including as places of community work and democracy promotion.

The Greens want museums, collections, and libraries to treat research into the origins of their holdings from colonial, Nazi, and East German contexts as a core task. The party commits to returning collection items and human remains.

Museums should check where their objects come from. Some objects come from injustice, such as colonial times or the Nazi era. The Greens want to give such objects back. Human remains should also go back to the descendants.

The specialist departments of the Dresden State Art Collections and the state library SLUB are to become competence centers that coordinate provenance work statewide. The coordination office for Nazi-looted property in libraries is to be consolidated. Human remains from contexts of injustice are to be returned in close cooperation with descendants and communities of origin.

The Greens want reliable funding for the Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten (Saxon Memorials Foundation) and new places of learning and encounter. The Sachsenburg and Hoheneck memorials are to come under the foundation, and new themes such as colonial history and the NSU are to be added.

The Greens want to strengthen the memory of history. The memorials foundation should get reliable funding. Two new memorial sites should belong to the foundation. There should be a center about the NSU. The NSU was a far-right terror group.

Sachsenburg stands for an early concentration camp, Hoheneck for the imprisonment of women in East Germany. Advice and networking for groups working on historical reckoning are to be expanded. The persecution of Sinti and Roma under the Nazis is to be addressed with memorial sites, preservation of graves, and research; their history in East Germany is to be examined as well. For the Year of Jewish Culture in 2026, encounters outside the big cities are to be supported. The party also wants to help cultural networks defend themselves against intimidation and restrictions on artistic freedom.

The Greens want to strengthen local reporting because, in the platform's view, concentration in the media market is degrading the information on offer. Community media, film festivals, and art-house cinemas are to be secured, and the state media authority is to become more broadly based.

The Greens want more news from the local area. Local papers and stations should get support. Community media should grow across the state. These are stations where citizens make the programs themselves. Cinemas and film festivals in rural areas should stay.

Media are to be protected against attacks on press and media freedom. In the Saxon state media authority (SLM), social groups are to get more say in oversight and funding; the authority is to make media diversity visible and promote media literacy in all age groups. Film festivals are to be solidly funded, and art-house cinemas and film initiatives secured, especially in rural areas. Films, new talent, and innovative media are to be supported through the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (regional film fund). The platform regards games as a driver of innovation.

The Greens want public broadcasting funded at the level its mandate requires. The broadcasters are to offer programming for all groups in society and build a joint digital platform.

The Greens want to give public broadcasters enough money. The stations should make programs for all groups. They should build a shared online platform. It should be able to compete with private platforms.

The broadcasters are to develop programming for people with an immigrant background, young people, and queer people as well, and talk more with their audience. Multilingual offerings are to grow as a counterweight to propaganda from countries such as Russia or China. The joint platform is also to be open to other public-interest content from journalism, culture, and science. The MDR state treaty is to be updated to strengthen regional programming. Long-term freelancers are to get equal co-determination rights on the MDR staff council.