Grüne on culture and media

The Greens want to provide more money for culture and secure cultural offerings for the long term. A cultural development plan is to be drawn up, and cultural policy would focus more on cultural diversity.

The Greens want to give more money to culture. Cultural offers should stay safe. The state should make a plan for culture. Juries and committees should include many different kinds of people.

Funding is to rise mainly through infrastructure programs. Results of the culture dialogues would be used and people working in culture in cities and rural areas better connected; the regional culture hubs get support. The state is to identify structures that hold back diversity in culture and help remove them. Cultural institutions, calls for proposals, funding rules, selection committees and juries should reflect society as a whole and represent minorities. The program sees cultural work as work for democracy.

The Greens want to fund socio-cultural centers on a permanent basis rather than only through projects. The investment program for the independent arts scene is to be extended and broadened.

Socio-cultural centers are local meeting places for culture. The Greens want to give them steady money. Independent theaters and small cinemas should also keep getting money. The program for this should grow.

According to the program, project grants alone do not secure the centers' existence; in 2022 structural funding was introduced for the first time. In the future, full-time network structures would also be funded. Co-financing models are meant to bring municipalities on board. The investment grants for venues run by non-public organizations such as independent theaters, art-house cinemas, art associations or music ensembles would continue and expand, especially for solo self-employed people.

The Greens want to make culture part of the state's economic strategy so the sector gains access to business and start-up support. Cultural education is to get more room from daycare through school.

Culture also brings money and jobs to the state. So people in culture should be able to get business support. Children should experience more culture in daycare and school. The social insurance fund for artists should stay.

The program calls culture a significant economic factor. Cultural education and trips to cultural events would carry more weight in teaching, including in subject requirements and all-day school programs. The Greens also support keeping and strengthening the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK, the social insurance fund for artists).

The Greens want to secure cooperation between music schools and general schools by law. A pop culture office is meant to keep professional musicians in the state.

Music schools should work together with regular schools. A new law should secure this. There should also be an office for pop culture. Musicians can get advice and help there.

The cooperation would be supported as all-day schooling expands. The program also counts pre-college training in classical, jazz, pop and rock as an important offering. It says many musicians leave for Hamburg and Berlin. The pop culture office would offer easy-to-reach advice, networking and funding, serve as a contact point for artists, organizers and festival and club operators, and link them to politics and administration.

The Greens want to reduce the repair backlog at theaters together with municipalities and expand film funding. Owner-run cinemas are to be kept as cultural venues.

Many theaters need repairs. The state should help with money. There should also be more money for films. Small cinemas should stay, especially in rural areas.

The state investment program would be used for theater renovation. Together with the state association of independent theaters, fitting funding structures for venues and conceptual work are to be developed. For film, funds for student film work, cultural film funding, out-of-school media education and youth video culture would grow; film heritage would also be protected. Training for film professionals and career changers is to expand within the state. Funding tools for new media technology such as virtual and augmented reality would be extended, and cinemas would get help with changes in the market.

The Greens want to develop libraries into places for meeting and learning. They plan statewide investment in digitization and buildings, plus a funding program for digitizing cultural heritage.

Libraries should be more than places to borrow books. People should meet and learn there. The state should pay for new technology and for the buildings. Old cultural treasures should be saved in digital form.

The guiding idea is the "third place," a meeting point for social, cultural and digital participation. Climate protection is to count especially in renovations, and family-friendly services should grow. The state library would open up more to the public and become a competence center for digitization and culture. The Digital Master Plan for Culture is to be continued, and work on a digital house of state history would go on. A self-service model based on the Danish example is also to be introduced in libraries.

The Greens want to make art more visible in public spaces. The federal guideline "Kunst am Bau" (art in public buildings) is to continue, and a state guideline for art in public space is to be relaunched.

The Greens want more art in public places. For public buildings, part of the money should go to art. Artist houses should keep getting money. Artists' works should be recorded in databases.

Under these guidelines, a fixed share of the cost of public buildings is set aside for artistic work. Artist houses would continue to receive support. To preserve artists' estates, databases of works are to be created at the federal and state levels.

The Greens want to develop the state's memorial site plan further and put memorials on a more professional footing. Besides the Nazi era, far-right violence after 1945 and the state's colonial past are also to be examined.

Memorial sites remind people of crimes in the past. The Greens want to support these places better. There should also be places for victims of far-right violence. The state should study its role in colonialism. Old monuments should be preserved.

The plan would be developed with the Bürgerstiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Gedenkstätten and the state working group of memorial sites. Nazi persecution of people marked with the so-called "black triangle" is to be specifically researched. The town of Neustadt gets support for a memorial to the sinking of the Cap Arcona, and Mölln and a local association for a memorial and learning site near the former arson-attack house. The role of the state and local companies in colonialism is to be studied further and provenance research strengthened. In monument protection, the inventory work is to continue quickly, and accessibility and energy upgrades should be compatible with it.

The Greens want to strengthen media diversity in the state, support independent outlets and expand public broadcasting in the digital sphere as well. The media authority for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein is to be strengthened in overseeing large tech companies.

Most newspapers in the state belong to just two publishers. The Greens want more different media. They want to support independent radio and open channels. The broadcaster NDR should become more diverse and offer more online.

The program notes that more than 80 percent of newspapers belong to two publishers and most local radio stations to one company. NDR is to become more diverse, and its broadcasting council more varied in makeup. Existing independent local radio stations and open channels are to be preserved, extended statewide and linked with schools. The media authority should be able to ensure that platforms do not spread hate speech, sexism, racism and illegal content through their algorithms.