SPD on culture and media

The SPD wants to keep supporting and preserving Babelsberg as a film location. The platform justifies this with the international profile the studio gives the state and with the investment generated by the media industry.

Babelsberg has a famous film studio. The SPD wants to keep supporting this location. The studio makes Brandenburg known around the world. The media industry also brings a lot of money to the state.

The platform describes Brandenburg as a state of film and media. It says the Babelsberg film studio contributes greatly to the state's international recognition. The media industry also triggers substantial investment.

The SPD sees culture as a public good that should be open to everyone and must not be subordinated to commercial goals. It wants to keep funding cultural institutions, cover collective wage increases for funded institutions from the state budget, and strengthen cultural offerings in rural areas.

The SPD says culture is for everyone. The state should keep funding theaters, orchestras, music schools and art schools. When wages go up, the state pays for this at funded institutions. Rural areas should have cultural offerings too.

Cultural anchor points in rural areas are to be strengthened, and village churches preserved together with churches and municipalities. Chorin Abbey is to be transferred, in agreement with local stakeholders, to an adequately funded state foundation. Music and art schools will continue to receive support, and the "Klasse Musik" project will be expanded. The work of the Netzwerk Zeitgeschichte (contemporary history network) for memorial sites is to be put on a permanent footing. Funding also continues for independent performing arts, grants for freelance artists, community arts, festivals, theaters, orchestras and cultural associations.

The SPD wants to agree on a state treaty with the Central Council of Jews that could also make teacher training possible. The platform calls churches and religious and philosophical communities important partners; it also wants to support the culture of the Sorbs and Wends and the Low German language.

The SPD wants to sign a treaty with the Central Council of Jews. The treaty should also make it possible to train teachers. The SPD wants to work with churches and religious groups. It also wants to keep the language of the Sorbs and Wends alive.

The platform stresses pride in Jewish life in Brandenburg and announces close cooperation with churches and with religious and philosophical communities. The culture of the Sorbs and Wends is to be promoted and the Lower Sorbian language preserved. The SPD also wants to support the cultivation of Low German.

The SPD wants a fundamental reform of public broadcasting that pays attention to stable license fees and funding. It also wants to safeguard press freedom and keep supporting local journalism from the state budget.

The SPD wants to reform the public broadcasters. The broadcasting fee should stay stable. Pay for top managers should be limited at all public broadcasters. Journalists should be protected. Local media should keep getting money from the state.

The cap on senior management salaries introduced for rbb (the Berlin-Brandenburg public broadcaster) is to apply to all public broadcasters, according to the SPD. Broadcasters should be able to decide faster and more flexibly which offerings they use to fulfill their mission, and provide a modern service for all groups in society. The SPD wants to counter intimidation and obstruction of press work and protect journalists. Funds for local journalism are to remain in the state budget.