SPD on culture and media

The SPD wants reliable funding for public broadcasting, support for private and local media, and more media literacy. Platforms would have to disclose their algorithms and act against disinformation and illegal content.

The SPD wants to keep many different media. Public broadcasting should get secure funding. Local newspapers and stations should also get help. Big internet platforms should show how they select content. They should act against false news.

Public broadcasting is to get legally secure funding matched to its mandate, and private media are to get good framework conditions. Programs for media and news literacy are to grow for all age groups. The state should hold back in oversight to avoid any impression of censorship, but demand moderation and support independent media that do fact-checking. The SPD calls for strict enforcement of bot labeling and mandatory fact-checking tools on large platforms. The EU rules DMA, DSA and AI Act are to be enforced.

The SPD wants to write culture into the Basic Law as a state objective and give cultural institutions more support. Affordable cultural offerings should be open to everyone, and remembrance culture is to be promoted.

The SPD wants to put culture into the constitution. The state would then have to support culture. Culture should be affordable for everyone. The memory of Nazi-era crimes should stay alive.

Operators of cultural institutions are to get more financial and organizational help, and cultural education and inclusion are to be promoted. The SPD wants to secure funding for bodies such as the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Federal Cultural Foundation and to strengthen heritage protection. Remembrance of Nazi crimes and the Shoah is to be preserved, and work on East German (SED) injustice and colonialism continued. The heritage of expellees, ethnic German resettlers and national minorities is also to be supported. A federal industrial heritage initiative is to support regional cultural and memorial sites.

The SPD wants better social protection and fair pay for artists and an expanded Künstlersozialkasse (artists' social insurance fund). The creative industries and German film are to be strengthened through tax incentives and reformed funding.

The SPD wants better protection for artists. They should be paid fairly. The artists' social insurance fund should grow. German film should get more support. Streaming services should have to invest in films in Germany.

Copyright and related rights are to stay protected, with fair pay models especially in the digital music market and labeling of AI content. The SPD will examine whether European alternatives to Chinese and US platforms can be supported. A coordinator in the federal government is to look after the creative industries. Film funding is to include tax incentives and an investment obligation for international streaming providers, and rural movie theaters are to get long-term support. Clubs are to be protected from displacement through "culture protection zones" in building law, and pop culture and games are to get more support.