SPD on culture and media

The SPD wants to modernize cultural funding, increase the Kulturfonds (state culture fund), and launch a statewide culture program for all regions. Providing basic cultural services should become a mandatory task for municipalities, and access to culture should not depend on social background.

The SPD wants to spend more money on culture. All regions of Bavaria should benefit. Towns should be required to provide cultural offerings. Everyone should be able to enjoy culture, no matter how much money they have.

Funding structures are to be updated, application procedures made more transparent, and federal and state funding better coordinated. The independent arts scene is to receive structural funding, cultural associations are to be strengthened, and Munich and Nuremberg are to be included in the culture fund. Large state institutions should cooperate with the independent scene and make cultural outreach a core task. The repair backlog in public cultural buildings is to be reduced, and considerably more state money is planned for historic buildings and archaeological monuments. The SPD wants to strengthen cultural education through cooperation with daycare centers, schools and adult education, with special support for inclusion projects.

The SPD wants cultural and creative workers to be able to live from their work. Minimum and base pay rates should therefore apply to public contracts and publicly funded projects, and social protection should be strengthened.

Artists should be able to live from their work. For jobs paid by the state, there should be a minimum pay. This also applies to projects with public funding. The SPD also wants better protection for them in old age.

The pay rules are to apply to all public-sector contracts and to funded projects. The program sees the federal government, the state and municipalities as jointly responsible for better social protection of cultural workers, including during gaps in employment and in old age. The SPD also wants to expand advice for start-ups in the cultural economy across the state and develop creative hubs throughout Bavaria.

The SPD wants to give memorial sites more support, examine Bavaria's colonial past, and encourage a critical approach to monuments and street names. It also wants to preserve the cultural heritage of expellees, refugees and ethnic German resettlers.

The SPD wants Bavaria to remember its history. Memorial sites should get more help. The colonial era should also be examined. The SPD wants to take a critical look at some street names and monuments.

Memorial sites are to receive considerably more support for new educational concepts. According to the program, the goal is to strengthen people against far-right violence and xenophobia, with historical and political education at the center. Monuments and street names that contradict democratic values are to be treated critically, and sites of democratic history highlighted. The reconciliation work of expellee initiatives and associations is to keep receiving state funding, as is exchange with their countries of origin.