SPD on culture and media

The SPD wants to fund the state's cultural foundations reliably and invest in maintaining historic buildings. Buildings and art from the East German era are also to be recorded and preserved.

Saxony-Anhalt has many old buildings and museums. The SPD wants to keep them and pay for that. Buildings from East German times should also be protected. Museums should keep developing.

Jewish heritage is to be secured and made visible. The museum landscape is to be developed further and industrial heritage funded permanently. New storage space for cultural institutions is to be built in the former Schultheiss brewery in Dessau-Roßlau. A concept is to secure the quality and funding of natural history museums. The SPD wants to keep supporting provenance research, which traces the origin of cultural objects.

The SPD wants to fund culture over several years, simplify procedures and tie public money to minimum social standards and minimum fees. It also wants to defend artistic freedom and make access to culture easier for everyone.

Culture should get money further in advance. Artists should get a minimum fee. Tickets should be cheaper for many groups. Computer games should also get funding.

Projects with antisemitic, racist or inhuman aims are to get no public money. Reduced admission and travel subsidies are meant to help families, seniors, school and university students and trainees. The Kulturfördergesetz (arts funding law) is to be reviewed, and an arts funding report is to appear once per legislative term. A state art exhibition is to show purchased works and secure artists' estates. Literature, young talent and reading promotion are to be strengthened. Grants are to be family-friendly and funding gender-fair.

The SPD wants to extend the contracts for theaters and orchestras and end in-house pay agreements and forced part-time work there. Music schools, clubs, libraries and cultural offerings in rural areas are to be strengthened.

Theaters and orchestras should get money reliably. Staff there should no longer be forced to work part-time. Music schools should not get more expensive. Libraries should be allowed to open on Sundays.

The independent scene and venues without their own ensemble are to get funding for guest performances and venues. Music schools are to get enough money to keep fees stable. Clubs are to be recognized and protected as cultural venues. Volunteer initiatives, sociocultural centers and so-called third places in rural areas are to get funding and regional budgets. A new development plan is to secure libraries across the state. Cultural institutions are to get help with accessibility.