What do the parties in Bavaria say on culture and media?

The AfD wants to protect Bavaria's cultural landscape from wind turbines, solar parks and what it calls faceless architecture. Townscapes and monuments are to be preserved and a regional building culture promoted. It rejects loosening monument protection for the sake of climate action.

The AfD wants to keep the look of Bavaria. Wind turbines and solar parks should not change the landscape. Old buildings should get better protection. Rules for old buildings should not be relaxed because of the climate.

The AfD wants to write German into the Bavarian constitution as the sole state and official language. Gender-inclusive language in public authorities and public broadcasters is to be stopped. The party sees the German language and Bavaria's dialects as the basis of cultural identity.

The AfD wants to put German into the Bavarian constitution. German should be the only language for public offices. Public offices should not use gender-inclusive language. This should also apply to public broadcasters.

The AfD wants to significantly reduce requirements for club festivals and keep bureaucracy for clubs to a minimum. Bavarian customs are to be promoted more strongly. In the party's view, club life suffers from too many rules.

Clubs should have to follow fewer rules. Club festivals should be easier to hold. The AfD wants more support for Bavarian customs. Card tournaments run by volunteers should stay legal.

The AfD wants to preserve the history and culture of Germans from the former eastern territories for future generations. Among other things, it calls for a statistical record of this group in Bavaria, adding the topic to the school curriculum, and a welcome program for Spätaussiedler (ethnic German resettlers).

Many Germans once had to leave their homes in the east. The AfD wants to preserve their history and culture. Students should learn this history in school. Ethnic German resettlers should get a welcome program.

The AfD wants Bavaria to leave the Interstate Media Treaty and have Bayerischer Rundfunk provide only a basic service. This is meant to cut the license fee sharply. A council elected directly by citizens would oversee the broadcaster.

The AfD wants to change public broadcasting a lot. Bavaria should leave the states' treaty on broadcasting. Bayerischer Rundfunk should offer only a small program. People would then pay much less. Citizens would elect a council to oversee the broadcaster.

The CSU does not want the broadcasting fee to rise further. Public broadcasters should have a clear profile and differ clearly from private providers.

Everyone pays a fee for public TV and radio. The CSU wants this fee to stay the same. Public stations should be clearly different from private ones.

The Free Voters want to support volunteering and clubs, among other things through higher tax allowances and more security for board members on liability. Customs, dialects and the so-called sensory heritage are to be preserved and protected. The independent arts scene and club sports are also to get more support.

The Free Voters want to strengthen clubs and volunteering. Volunteers should pay less tax. Club board members should be better protected if something goes wrong. Customs and dialects should stay. No one should be able to sue over church bells or cowbells.

The Free Voters consider public broadcasting important but want it to focus on its core tasks and be organized more efficiently. Surpluses from the broadcasting fee would be used to lower the fee, and local stations would get more funding.

The Free Voters think public broadcasting is important. But it should stick to its most important tasks. If money from the broadcasting fee is left over, the fee should go down. Local TV stations should get more money.

The Greens want a securely funded, transparently run Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavaria's public broadcaster) and a diverse media landscape. Media oversight bodies are to have equal numbers of women and men and become younger and more diverse. Media literacy is to be promoted for everyone in Bavaria.

The Greens want a strong public broadcaster in Bavaria. It should have secure funding and be open about its spending. There should be many different media. Oversight boards should have as many women as men. Everyone should learn to use media well.

The Greens want to fund the full range of arts and culture reliably, reform the Bavarian Culture Fund and draw up a statewide cultural development plan. Minimum fees for artists are to apply to public contracts and grants. The Tanzverbot (ban on dancing on certain religious holidays) is to go, and a center for cultural education is to be founded.

The Greens want steady funding for culture. There should be a plan for all of Bavaria. Artists should get a minimum fee for state-funded work. The ban on dancing on quiet holidays should end. A new center should support cultural education.

The Greens want to equip Bavaria's memorial, learning and remembrance sites according to need and support civil society initiatives. Municipalities are to get money when they rename streets and buildings named after historical perpetrators. In the platform's view, perpetration under National Socialism and colonialism has not been sufficiently examined so far.

The Greens want to equip memorial sites better. These places recall crimes from history. Groups that care for remembrance should get help. Some streets are named after perpetrators from the past. Towns should get money when they change these names.

The Greens want to preserve Bavaria's historic monuments while modernizing them. More solar installations are to be possible on protected buildings, along with new uses inside and better insulation. Municipalities and private owners are to get more money for renovation.

The Greens want to protect old historic buildings. More solar panels should be allowed on them. Owners should be able to change the inside more easily. There should be more money for repairs. The offices should handle requests faster.

The SPD wants to modernize cultural funding, increase the Kulturfonds (state culture fund), and launch a statewide culture program for all regions. Providing basic cultural services should become a mandatory task for municipalities, and access to culture should not depend on social background.

The SPD wants to spend more money on culture. All regions of Bavaria should benefit. Towns should be required to provide cultural offerings. Everyone should be able to enjoy culture, no matter how much money they have.

The SPD wants cultural and creative workers to be able to live from their work. Minimum and base pay rates should therefore apply to public contracts and publicly funded projects, and social protection should be strengthened.

Artists should be able to live from their work. For jobs paid by the state, there should be a minimum pay. This also applies to projects with public funding. The SPD also wants better protection for them in old age.

The SPD wants to give memorial sites more support, examine Bavaria's colonial past, and encourage a critical approach to monuments and street names. It also wants to preserve the cultural heritage of expellees, refugees and ethnic German resettlers.

The SPD wants Bavaria to remember its history. Memorial sites should get more help. The colonial era should also be examined. The SPD wants to take a critical look at some street names and monuments.