Linke on culture and media

The Left wants to extend free museum admission to university students and apprentices and introduce one free Sunday a month for everyone. Neighborhood culture, public libraries and the independent arts scene should get more money and binding minimum fees.

Museums should be free for more people. This applies to students and apprentices. On one Sunday a month, everyone should get in for free. Artists should be paid better. Neighborhood culture should get more money.

In the program's view, admission prices must not be a barrier to art. Funding for neighborhood culture should rise, and a new structural program should be developed with local stakeholders. Minimum fees should be binding and funded for the independent music, theater, dance and visual arts scene. The Bücherhallen (public libraries) should get significantly more funding. The party also wants a fund for cultural diversity, public dance floors in every neighborhood and an end to the parking space levy for clubs.

The Left wants to make May 8 a public holiday and strengthen remembrance of Nazi persecution and resistance in the city center. Streets and squares named after figures of colonialism and militarism are to be renamed.

World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. The Left wants to make this day a holiday. A place in the city center should remember the people the Nazis persecuted. Some streets are named after colonial rulers. These streets should get new names.

A place of learning, documentation and remembrance in the Stadthaus is to be developed further in coordination with associations of formerly persecuted people. A week of remembrance should take place across Hamburg. The research center on the city's postcolonial heritage should get long-term funding. In heritage policy, the party wants to give the monument council more rights and fund the monument association adequately. It also opposes restrictions on artistic freedom and freedom of expression.

The Left wants to preserve public broadcasting and place it under democratic oversight. The broadcasting fee should be made more socially fair, and freelancers at the broadcasters should get permanent jobs with social insurance.

The Left wants strong public broadcasting. The broadcasting fee should become fairer. Freelancers at the broadcasters should get permanent jobs. There should be a gender quota at NDR.

To make the fee socially fair, the party wants to launch initiatives in the Bürgerschaft (state parliament) to change the interstate treaty. At NDR it calls for a gender quota in every occupational group. Community media such as local radio and the broadcaster TIDE should remain secured, and the Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein media authority should be strengthened. Private programming should also be subject to ethical review by a dedicated body. The film fund should introduce a social shooting pass for productions with exemplary working conditions.