What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on culture and media?

The AfD makes a total overhaul of public broadcasting the condition for Baden-Württemberg staying in the Medienstaatsvertrag (interstate media treaty). Public broadcasting would shrink by at least 90 percent and the license fee would go. If the other states do not agree within 100 days, the state would withdraw.

The AfD wants to make public TV and radio much smaller. They should mostly inform and teach. The AfD wants to end the broadcasting fee. The other states should agree within 100 days. If not, the AfD wants to quit the broadcasting treaty.

The AfD wants to review state funding of culture, which it often regards as ideologically motivated. At the same time, community cultural associations are to receive financial help. State-funded theaters are to remain neutral in party politics.

The AfD wants to check how culture is funded. It says the money is often given for political reasons. Small cultural clubs should get more help. Theaters with state money should not support any party.

The AfD wants Baden-Württemberg to immediately withdraw from the interstate treaty that governs the public broadcaster SWR. Public broadcasting would in future be paid for only by those who choose to pay.

SWR is a public broadcaster. A treaty sets its rules. The AfD wants to cancel this treaty right away. Only people who want to pay should pay for public broadcasting.

The AfD wants a fundamental reform of film funding in Baden-Württemberg. In its view, the state-owned agency MFG funds politically one-sided projects. If reform proves impossible, the MFG should be dissolved.

The state gives money for films. The AfD says this money goes to politically one-sided films. It wants to change the funding a lot. If that fails, the funding agency MFG should close.

The CDU wants to secure local newspapers, private broadcasters and movie theaters through reliable conditions, including a subsidy for newspaper delivery in rural areas. The film and games industries and training for media professions are also to be strengthened.

The CDU wants to keep local newspapers and private broadcasters. The state should help deliver newspapers in rural areas. The CDU also wants to support films and video games from the state. Young people in media jobs should get help starting out.

The CDU is committed to public broadcasting but wants it to focus more on its core mission. The broadcasting fee is to stay stable, and salaries in leadership positions are to be aligned with the public sector.

The CDU wants to keep public TV and radio. The broadcasters should stick to their main job. They should report more from the region. The broadcasting fee should not go up.

The CDU supports a levy on the online advertising of large platforms, designed to comply with EU law. The revenue is to go exclusively to media infrastructure, diversity and quality journalism.

Big internet companies earn a lot from ads. The CDU wants them to pay a levy on that. The money should go to media and good journalism. This should make competition fairer.

The CDU wants to draw up a statewide cultural strategy that secures arts and culture and provides long-term planning for preserving and building cultural venues. Every child should have the chance to sing in a choir or learn an instrument.

The CDU wants a plan for culture in the state. Theaters, museums and other cultural buildings should be kept. Every child should be able to learn an instrument or sing in a choir. Artists should have less paperwork when they apply for funding.

The CDU wants to set up an office for the concerns of expellees and ethnic German resettlers. In addition, a research and cultural center focusing on "Germans from Russia" is to be established.

Many people came to the state as expellees or ethnic German resettlers. The CDU wants to appoint a commissioner for them. That is a person who looks after their concerns. Germans from Russia should get a cultural center.

The Greens want to set up an emergency fund for arts and culture and preserve cultural buildings through a renovation drive. The state is to remain a reliable partner for cultural institutions and municipalities even when budgets are tight.

The Greens want an emergency fund for arts and culture. It gives money to cultural venues in hard times. Old cultural buildings are to be repaired. The state should help towns and cities with this.

The Greens want to improve conditions for clubs, live music and pop culture through less red tape, planning certainty and protection for existing cultural venues. The POPLÄND funding program is to be expanded, and small venues are to be supported by a fund fed by a ticket levy on large events.

The Greens want to protect clubs and live music venues. There should be less paperwork for them. The POPLÄND funding program is to grow. Small stages are to get money from a new fund.

The Greens want to award a yearly prize to owner-run bookstores. It is meant to honor shops with a strong cultural commitment, since the platform sees them under pressure from online retail and rising costs.

The Greens want a new prize for bookstores. It is given every year. It goes to shops with good ideas and many events. This is meant to draw more attention to small bookstores.

The Greens want to give clubs and associations more relief from GEMA costs and administrative burdens so that festivals and events become easier to hold. At the federal level they are pushing to exempt associations from GEMA fees and from sales tax.

Clubs pay fees to GEMA when they play music. The Greens want to ease this burden. Clubs should also have less paperwork. This makes festivals easier to hold.

The Greens want young people, whatever their educational path, to be able to visit theaters, movie theaters, museums and concerts easily. Free admission for children and teenagers to the permanent collections of the state museums is to continue.

Young people should be able to go to theaters, movies, museums and concerts easily. This should apply to students and apprentices alike. Children and teenagers will still get into state museums for free.

The Greens want to return unlawfully acquired cultural objects to their rightful owners or countries of origin and to keep researching where museum objects came from. Remembrance culture is to become more visible across the state.

Some museum objects were acquired unjustly. The Greens want to give these objects back. Museums should check where their objects come from. Remembering history should also become more visible.

The Greens want to create a digital infrastructure for culture that links museum data and makes it usable. It is also meant to provide room for AI applications tailored to the cultural sector.

The Greens want to build a digital network for culture. It connects data from museums. AI tools for culture are to be developed there too. Everyone should be able to use it easily.

The Greens want to strengthen libraries as open places for education and community and connect them through a statewide digital platform. The funding program for libraries in rural areas is to be kept.

Libraries are meeting places for everyone. The Greens want to strengthen them. A digital platform is to connect all libraries in the state. Rural libraries will keep getting funding.

The Greens want to strengthen regional journalism and turn the existing subsidy for television broadcasters into general journalism funding. They argue that democracy needs an informed public and independent media.

The Greens want to support local news. Today the state gives money for television. In the future the money should be for journalism in general. The party says democracy needs good news reporting.

The SPD wants a state fund to support local newsrooms and nonprofit journalism. It backs a digital levy on large platform companies and wants to strengthen film and games funding as well as the state media authority.

The SPD wants to help local newsrooms. The state should set up a fund for this. A fund is a pot of money. Big internet companies should pay a levy. Schools should teach how to deal with media and news.

The SPD wants reliable funding for the arts and more transparent grant rules. A new fund would pay for investments in cultural institutions, such as renovating venues. The platform justifies this by pointing to the financial pressure on the state's cultural sector.

The SPD wants to give more money to the arts. There will be a new fund for investments. It can pay for repairs to theaters, for example. The SPD says the arts in the state do not have enough money.

The SPD wants more support for local customs and amateur arts groups in the state. Volunteer-run clubs would be relieved of red tape and costs, including by having the state cover their GEMA (music licensing) fees as a lump sum.

The SPD wants to support local traditions and clubs. These include choirs, music clubs and shooting clubs. The state will pay the GEMA fees for these clubs. These are fees for playing music in public.

The SPD wants to improve working conditions for people in the arts. Employees should be paid according to collective agreements, and adequate fees should become a condition for projects that receive state funding.

The SPD wants better pay for people who work in the arts. Staff at theaters and orchestras should get union-scale pay. Freelance artists should get fair fees. This should apply to projects with state money.

The SPD wants free admission to the permanent exhibitions of the state museums and a culture pass for young people. The aim is to give everyone access to art and culture.

The SPD wants entry to state museums to be free. This applies to the permanent exhibitions. Young people will get 100 euros once for culture. This is called the culture pass.