SPD on culture and media

The SPD wants to set minimum fees and minimum performance pay in cultural funding to improve the income and social security of freelance artists. The independent scene is to get permanent workspaces and a production house, and culture is to become a mandatory municipal task.

Freelance artists should earn more. There should be minimum fees for this. The independent arts scene should get permanent spaces to work. Towns and cities should be required to offer culture.

The platform points out that solo artists suffered badly during the pandemic. At the federal level, the SPD wants to push for their coverage in the artists' social insurance fund and in pension, health, and unemployment insurance. A well-equipped workspace and help with professionalization are meant to keep talent in the state. Cultural offerings should also reach rural areas; together with municipalities, the SPD wants to make culture a mandatory task.

The SPD wants everyone to be able to visit museums for free on certain days or at certain times. Museums are to be strengthened as places of cultural education and experience and be better networked.

On some days, museum admission should be free for everyone. For children and teenagers it is already free. The SPD wants to support museums with new exhibitions. Museums should work together more.

According to the platform, admission is already free for those under 18. The SPD wants to support museums in developing new exhibition concepts and educational programs. The history-focused museums on Schlossplatz are to cooperate, and Roman and Celtic finds are to gain national and international visibility. The platform names the Bliesbruck-Reinheim culture park and the ring wall in Otzenhausen; customs such as the Viez (cider) heritage are also to be safeguarded.

The SPD wants to keep the Saarland State Theater with its three divisions and give established festivals permanent financial security. The industrial heritage of coal and steel is to be preserved as a place of remembrance.

The State Theater should stay as it is. Well-known festivals should get money permanently. The SPD also wants to remember the era of coal and steel. Old mines and monuments should get funding.

For digital theater formats, the SPD backs adequate resources. The festivals named for safeguarding are the Max Ophüls Prize, Festival Perspectives, Loostik, and the Musikfestspiele Saar. The miners' song "Steigerlied" is to become intangible cultural heritage. The Velsen visitor mine is to be funded permanently in a network with the Rechtsschutzsaal in Bildstock and the mining museum in Bexbach; a viable usage concept is sought for the Pingusson building.

The SPD wants to expand arts and cultural education in schools and daycare centers and keep existing programs running. Artists who work in schools are to receive higher fees.

The SPD wants more arts in schools. Programs that work well will stay. Artists who work in schools will get more money. Children will be encouraged to read from daycare on.

Programs to be continued include the theater education center, the French-language project "Chanson à l’école" and the school development program "Kultur leben." The "Kreative Praxis" program is to be strengthened through higher fees. Reading promotion is to begin in daycare, which the platform says also benefits the state's bookstores and publishers. For the federal program "Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung," the SPD wants to secure the state's share of the funding. Clubs are to reach young people more effectively through their involvement in all-day schooling.