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

The AfD wants to preserve, cultivate and promote the German language as the core of culture. It rejects gender-inclusive language, which it sees as political interference in the natural development of the language.

The AfD wants to protect and support the German language. It is against gender-inclusive language. That is a way of writing that names women and men with special signs. The AfD says this divides society.

The AfD wants new guidelines for public arts funding: projects directed against the democratic constitutional order or that encourage antisemitism should get no money, and applicants' political views should play no role. Both major institutions and grassroots culture, especially in the outer districts, are to be supported.

The AfD wants new rules for public money for culture. Projects against democracy should get no money. Projects that support hatred of Jews should get none either. Political opinions should not matter for funding. The outer districts should get more culture too.

The AfD wants to better secure museums, archives and monuments and create a state law to protect cultural property. Preserving collections should take budget priority over funding for artists, and heritage protection offices should get more staff.

The AfD wants to better protect old buildings and works of art. Berlin should get its own law for this. The offices that protect monuments should get more staff. Museums and archives should get money first. Traditional crafts should be strengthened.

The AfD opposes renaming streets and squares for what it considers ideological reasons. New names should be chosen by objective criteria, and residents should have more say.

The AfD wants to keep street names. It is against renaming for political reasons. There should be clear rules for new names. Residents should have more say.

The AfD wants to restore lost historic buildings and urban spaces in Berlin according to their original design in order to foster identity. This is to be paid for mainly through donations and private patrons.

The AfD wants to rebuild old structures in Berlin. They should look as they did in the past. This should make the city's history visible again. The money should come mainly from donors.

The AfD wants to terminate the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (interstate broadcasting treaty) and abolish the mandatory broadcasting fee. Public broadcasters should fund themselves through voluntary payments, such as subscriptions or pay-per-view.

The AfD wants to end the broadcasting fee. Nobody should have to pay for public TV and radio anymore. The stations should get money only from people who choose to pay. For example through a subscription.

The AfD wants to bar public authorities and publicly funded bodies from blocking citizens on social networks because of their opinions. The licensing requirement for online services is to be dropped, and the state media authorities should stick to core tasks.

The AfD wants to protect free speech on the internet. Public offices should not be allowed to block citizens there. Internet companies should not need a license from the state. The media regulators should have fewer tasks.

The AfD wants to strengthen remembrance of the injustices of the SED dictatorship in East Germany and create new memorial and research sites. In its view, remembrance policy should show German history in full, including achievements as well as Nazi rule and the communist dictatorship.

The AfD wants more remembrance of injustice in East Germany. An old police prison should become a memorial site. There should also be an institute that studies communism. Remembrance should show all of German history.

The AfD wants a new concept for the memorial to the East German uprising of June 17, 1953, located in Zehlendorf. The occasion is the 75th anniversary of the uprising. The platform says the site has been neglected for a long time.

On June 17, 1953, people in East Germany rose up. A memorial in Zehlendorf recalls this. The AfD wants to redesign the memorial. Visitors should learn more there. It should also be easier to reach.

The AfD rejects postcolonialism as an ideology and wants to stop giving public money to initiatives of this kind. In the platform's view, postcolonial theories endanger a balanced culture of remembrance and social cohesion.

Some groups look critically at the colonial era. This is called postcolonialism. The AfD rejects this way of thinking. Such groups should get no more state money. The AfD says this thinking harms social cohesion.

The CDU wants to reinstate the free-admission museum Sunday within the current legislative term. In its view, culture, leisure, and sports should be affordable for everyone.

Berlin used to have a Sunday with free museum entry. The CDU wants to bring this day back. Culture should be affordable for everyone. People with little money should also visit museums.

The CDU wants to preserve the diversity of Berlin's culture even in tight budget times and secure affordable workspaces for artists. Culture should be accessible to everyone, and Berlin should become Europe's leading cultural hub.

Berlin has a lot of culture, like theaters and museums. The CDU wants to keep it. Artists should have cheap places to work. Culture should be open to everyone.

The CDU wants to support access to culture for everyone. Programs like "KulturLeben Berlin," which let certain groups buy heavily discounted tickets, are to be expanded, especially to children and teenagers.

The CDU wants everyone to enjoy culture. A program called "KulturLeben Berlin" already exists. It gives some people very cheap tickets. The CDU wants more children and teens to get them too.

The CDU wants to keep funding top-tier culture and secure Berlin's cultural infrastructure long term, including renovating major venues. The CDU sees high culture as a draw for the city and an expression of a free society. A transformation fund is to cut costs through cooperation.

The CDU wants to keep supporting operas, theaters and museums. Important buildings will be renovated. Cultural venues should work together more. That way they can save money. There will also be one shared site for tickets.

The CDU wants to promote artificial intelligence as a creative tool in culture and make the AI conference for the cultural sector a permanent event. Culture and the creative industries are also to be linked more closely, with more practical funding guidelines.

The CDU wants to use artificial intelligence in culture. People call it AI for short. There was a conference about AI and culture. It should happen regularly. Cultural businesses that earn money should get funding more easily.

The CDU wants to strengthen district music schools and keep phasing out freelance contracts. In the next legislative term, 90 percent of staff are to be permanently employed. At the federal level, freelance work is to be made legally secure.

The CDU wants to support music schools in the districts. Many teachers there work as freelancers. That means they have no steady contract. Soon, 9 out of 10 teachers should have steady jobs.

The CDU wants to work with the districts to turn neighborhood libraries into places for meeting and learning, and to allow Sunday opening. The Zentral- und Landesbibliothek (Central and State Library) is to get a single new location, preferably in the department store building at Alexanderplatz.

The CDU thinks libraries are very important. Neighborhood libraries should become places to meet. Libraries should be allowed to open on Sundays. The big state library should move to one place. The CDU suggests the department store at Alexanderplatz.

The CDU wants to open up new cultural venues: the former Tempelhof Airport building with private capital, a "House of Jazz," and S-Bahn arches for young artists. Sites for clubs and the creative industries are to be secured early and through zoning.

The CDU wants more places for culture. The old Tempelhof Airport should become a culture venue. Private companies should help pay for it. Young artists should show work under S-Bahn train arches. Clubs should keep their places in the city.

The CDU wants to secure remembrance institutions permanently in the state budget. The uniqueness of the Shoah and the reckoning with National Socialism and the SED dictatorship of East Germany are to stay in public awareness. Several memorial sites are to be secured and expanded.

The CDU wants people to remember the crimes of the Nazis. It also wants people to remember injustice in East Germany. Memorial sites should get steady money from the state. Young people should learn that freedom and democracy need protecting.

The CDU wants to keep traces of Berlin's history from the Electorate of Brandenburg, Prussia and the Weimar Republic visible. This includes caring for monuments and keeping historic street names instead of renaming them.

The CDU wants to take care of old monuments in Berlin. They remind people of the time of Prussia. Old street names from that time should stay. They should not get new names.

The CDU backs public broadcasting and wants to continue the reforms started after the rbb scandal. The state treaty governing rbb is to be reviewed regularly for effectiveness and thrift. Public broadcasting is to concentrate on its core tasks again.

The CDU wants to keep public broadcasting. There was a scandal at the broadcaster rbb. After that, new rules came. These rules should be checked often. Broadcasting should save money and focus on what matters most.

The CDU wants to strengthen Berlin as a leading film and cinema hub and is pushing for renewed nationwide cinema funding for technical upgrades. The video game industry is also to keep growing.

The CDU wants to support movie theaters in Berlin. The federal government should pay for this again. Theaters could then buy new technology. Video game companies should also grow.

The Greens want to develop several sites so they can host large concerts, festivals and street festivals. Such events are to be run by the city itself on its own land wherever possible and be affordable for all Berliners.

The Greens want to bring big concerts to Berlin. Certain places should be improved for this. The city should run these places itself where possible. Tickets should be affordable for everyone.

The Greens want to secure clubs, small music venues and open-air formats for the long term because, in the party's view, they are threatened by rising costs, rents and displacement. The plan includes protection through planning law, dedicated funding and an emergency fund for venues at acute risk.

The Greens want to protect Berlin's clubs. Many clubs struggle with high rents and costs. Clubs should get public funding. There should be an emergency fund for clubs in trouble.

The Greens want to support Berlin's games industry because they see video games as part of the cultural and creative economy and as a driver of digitalization. Plans include better training paths, new trade fair formats and media literacy programs.

The Greens want to strengthen the games industry in Berlin. There should be more training for these jobs. New trade fairs should make games from Berlin better known. People should learn to handle games well. This should protect against addiction and extremism.

The Greens want creatives and cultural workers to be paid adequately and to share in the revenue from their works. When AI is used, personality rights, copyright and usage rights are to be protected, for which the platform envisions more regulation and stronger media oversight.

Many artists in Berlin earn little. The Greens want them to be paid fairly. Large platforms should share their profits with them. Their rights should also apply when artificial intelligence is used. Media oversight should become stronger.

The Greens consider reckoning with the SED dictatorship still necessary and want to preserve sites of remembrance. In addition, the period after 1989 is to receive more attention, including far-right violence, the Treuhand privatization agency, and mass unemployment.

The Greens want to keep remembering the East German dictatorship. Important places should be preserved. These include the SEZ and the former Stasi headquarters. The years after the fall of the Wall should also get more attention. Back then there was a lot of far-right violence and many people had no work.

The Greens want a culture funding law that secures Berlin's cultural landscape for the long term. They also want binding minimum fees for artists and more money for the independent scene from the City Tax. The platform cites cuts by the current coalition and precarious working conditions in culture.

The Greens want a law for funding culture. It should secure theaters, museums and artists for the long term. Artists should get a minimum fee. The independent arts scene should get money from the tax on hotel stays.

The Greens want to reverse the cuts to the Arbeitsraumprogramm (workspace program for artists) and create more studios, rehearsal rooms and cultural venues. Culture is to become a fixed part of urban development and public real estate policy. The platform cites rising rents and displacement.

Artists need rooms to work and rehearse. Many can no longer pay the rent. The Greens want to create more of these rooms. City-owned buildings should be used for this.

The Greens want Berlin's cultural sector to become climate-neutral as well. This is to apply above all to institutions with high greenhouse gas emissions.

Berlin should stop harming the climate. This should also apply to theaters and museums. The Greens want to set up programs for this. For example, buildings should use less energy.

The Greens want basic cultural services in every borough, including outside the S-Bahn ring. These include libraries, music schools, youth art schools and children's theaters. Cultural education is to become a required task for all publicly funded cultural institutions.

Everyone in Berlin should have culture close to home. This includes libraries, music schools and theaters for children. Teachers at music schools should get permanent jobs. Students should be able to visit cultural places four times a year.

The Greens want to bring back the free-admission Museum Sunday and extend it step by step. In the platform's view, taking part in culture should not depend on money. For young adults, Berlin is to develop a replacement for the federal KulturPass, which was cut.

Culture should not depend on money. The Greens want to bring back Museum Sunday with free entry. Later, more museums should be free all the time. Young adults should get their own offer from the state.

The Greens want to secure memorial sites and remembrance initiatives and fund their educational work. This ranges from remembering the victims of National Socialism and reckoning with the East German dictatorship to queer history. In the platform's view, remembrance culture grows from the bottom up.

The Greens want to support memorial sites. These places remember the victims of the Nazi era, for example. The East German dictatorship should also be remembered. There should be an archive for queer history.

The Greens want to continue addressing Berlin's colonial history and implement the "Kolonialismus erinnern" (remembering colonialism) concept step by step. Looted art and human remains are to be returned more easily, and streets with tainted names renamed more easily. The platform sees Berlin as bearing historical responsibility for the genocide of the Herero and Nama.

Germany once had colonies. Many wrongs were done there. The Greens want to remember this and create a place for learning. Stolen art should be easier to give back.

The Greens want to defend press freedom, expand rights of access to information, and protect journalists from lawsuits meant to intimidate them. Media workers and creatives are to get better social protection and a larger share of the revenue their work generates.

The Greens want to protect press freedom. Journalists should get information more easily. Nobody should scare them with lawsuits. They should also earn more and have better social protection.

The Greens want attractive and independent public broadcasting and intend to keep following the ongoing reform. The regional broadcaster rbb should reflect the diversity of Berlin and its surrounding area in its programming.

The Greens want strong public TV and radio. These stations should stay independent. The Berlin station rbb should show how diverse Berlin is. The stations should have enough money.

The Greens want to rework film funding in Berlin and give more weight to women, East Germans and BIPoC. Movie theaters are to be preserved as cultural venues across the city wherever possible.

The Greens want to improve funding for films. Women, East Germans and people of color should get more support. Young filmmakers should get more help. Movie theaters should stay open all over the city.

The Left wants to preserve the freedom and autonomy of arts and culture and opposes screening of cultural and civil society groups by the domestic intelligence service. According to the platform, cultural workers must be able to work without fear of repression. The party also wants to strengthen minority cultures in the city.

The Left wants to protect the freedom of art. The state should not check artists' opinions. The domestic intelligence service should not screen cultural projects. The Left also wants to strengthen minority cultures.

The Left wants to raise culture's share of Berlin's total budget from under 2 percent today to 2.5 percent in the short term and 3 percent in the following years. The money is meant above all to better equip the boroughs for cultural work and cultural participation. The platform sees culture as a public responsibility.

Berlin spends less than 2 percent of its money on culture today. The Left wants to change that. Soon it should be 2.5 percent. Later it should be 3 percent. The boroughs should get more money for culture.

The Left wants to review and simplify the cultural funding system together with professional associations. Cultural workers are to help shape funding programs, and independent juries are to play a larger role. A Berlin cultural funding law would serve as a guideline.

The rules for cultural funding are complicated. The Left wants to make them simpler. Artists and associations should have a say. Independent juries should decide on funding. Politicians should accept these decisions.

The Left wants to set up an independent contact point for people affected by abuse of power in the cultural sector. It would be paired with binding procedures for complaints and conflicts and more transparency on fees and salaries. The platform regards abuse of power as a structural problem.

There is abuse of power in the cultural sector. The Left wants an independent office for people affected. They can get help there. Theaters and museums should disclose their fees. The pay of their directors should also be public.

The Left wants collective bargaining agreements in all cultural institutions, rising minimum fees across all funding lines, and permanent jobs for freelance teachers at music schools. The platform justifies this with the low incomes of many freelance cultural workers. The party rejects converting the state-owned theaters to a different model.

Many artists earn very little. The Left wants higher minimum fees. All cultural institutions should have collective pay agreements. Music school teachers should get permanent jobs if they want them. The state's theaters should stay with the state.

The Left wants to give the Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung (foundation for cultural training and consulting) more money and staff and secure it for the long term. Training on discrimination awareness and prevention would become mandatory in all cultural institutions. Existing anti-discrimination structures in the cultural sector are to be adequately funded.

Berlin has a foundation for cultural training. The Left wants to give it more money and staff. All cultural institutions should have required training against discrimination. Offices that work against discrimination should get enough money.

The Left wants stable multi-year funding for the independent arts scene instead of leaving it in uncertainty every year. The platform views the independent scene as a sector in its own right rather than an add-on to the major institutions. Funding tools for the individual art forms are to be developed further.

The independent scene means artists without permanent venues. The Left wants to fund them over several years. That makes planning easier. Grants and fees for exhibitions should become normal. Programs that were cut should get more money again.

The Left wants to keep Berlin's clubs from being pushed out of their locations. It plans a dedicated state funding program for venues, more money for soundproofing and simpler permits. At the federal level it wants to push for capped commercial rents and stronger protection against eviction.

Many clubs in Berlin have to close or move. The Left wants to protect the clubs. The state should give clubs money. There should be more money for noise protection. Rents for business spaces should have an upper limit.

The Left wants to secure the long-term supply of affordable studios and rehearsal rooms and add 1,000 workspaces rented at cost. It argues that many artists cannot afford space on the open market and that the workspace program has been cut sharply.

Many artists cannot find affordable rooms to work in. The Left wants to create 1,000 new workspaces. The rent should only cover the costs. Empty offices should be used for culture. Cultural sites should not be sold.

The Left wants to secure and expand libraries, music schools, adult education centers, youth art schools and municipal galleries for the long term. It calls for minimum standards, dedicated laws for libraries and music schools, and adequate funding for the districts. The Central and State Library is to get a new site at Alexanderplatz.

The Left wants to strengthen libraries and music schools in the districts. There should be new laws for this. The districts should get enough money for culture. Music school teachers should have permanent jobs. The big state library should move to Alexanderplatz.

The Left wants to ensure cultural participation regardless of income. Its plans include a permanent state KulturPass (culture pass) for young people, a 3-euro ticket at all public cultural institutions and more cultural programs for children and for people living in refugee housing.

Culture should be affordable for everyone. Young people aged 16 to 21 should get 100 euros a year for culture. Public cultural institutions should offer a ticket for 3 euros. Children in refugee housing should also get cultural programs.

The Left wants to draw up a long-term strategy for an accessible cultural life together with institutions and advocacy groups. Accessibility is to apply to audiences as well as to people working in cultural institutions.

Many cultural places have barriers for people with disabilities. The Left wants a long-term plan to fix this. People affected should have a say. People with disabilities should also be able to work well in culture. There should be money for this.

The Left wants to fund the ecological conversion of cultural institutions and build sustainability criteria into cultural funding. It calls for a dedicated strategy for digitizing culture and for protecting copyright where artificial intelligence is used.

Cultural venues should harm the climate less. There should be funding and advice for this. Culture should also become more digital. Artificial intelligence must not simply use artists' works. Artists should be paid fairly for it.

The Left wants remembrance and memorial site work to be adequately funded and shielded from political interference. May 8 is to become an annual work-free day of remembrance. On East German history, the party seeks a nuanced remembrance culture that covers all of Germany.

Berlin should remember the crimes of the Nazi era. The Left wants to give memorial sites enough money. Politicians should not interfere there. May 8 should be a day off for remembrance every year. Berlin should also remember the history of East Germany.

The Left wants to set up a commission to address Berlin's colonial legacy. Civil society groups are to negotiate the renaming of streets and squares there. In addition, a central site for learning about and remembering German colonialism is to be created.

Some streets in Berlin are named after men from the colonial era. These men were responsible for exploitation and genocide. A commission should discuss new street names. Berlin should get a place for learning about the colonial era.

The Left wants to reform public broadcasting: broader participation, more news and culture, more transparency and more say for the public. The broadcasting fee should still be set through an independent process, while more people should be exempt from paying it. DAB+ digital radio should be kept permanently.

The Left wants to change public broadcasting. It should offer more news and culture. It should show more openly how it spends money. More people should not have to pay the broadcasting fee. Radio by antenna should stay.

The Left wants stricter transparency rules and more staff co-determination written into the interstate treaty governing rbb, the public broadcaster for Berlin and Brandenburg. Staff cuts and program cuts should end, and freelancers should be paid like employees. The broadcasting council should better reflect Berlin's diversity.

rbb is the public broadcaster for Berlin and Brandenburg. The Left wants more openness there and more say for staff. The broadcaster should stop cutting jobs and programs. Freelancers should get the same pay as employees.

The Left wants to limit the opinion-shaping power of large online platforms such as Meta, TikTok and Google. To do so, media concentration law should be broadened and the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (mabb, the regional media regulator) given stronger legal powers and more money. The program also relies on media literacy education for young people.

Big internet companies decide which news people see. The Left wants to limit that power. The media regulator in Berlin should get more rights and more money. Young people should learn to use media critically.

The Left wants non-commercial community radio stations to be legally recognized as a third pillar alongside public and private broadcasters and to receive basic funding. Existing support for local journalism should be made permanent.

Community radio stations do not aim to make a profit. People can make their own radio there. The Left wants to protect these stations by law and give them steady money. Local news should also get lasting support.

The Left wants to give the Medienboard, the film and media funding body for Berlin and Brandenburg, sufficient resources. Support should go to all film genres, film festivals, the games and visual effects industries, and cinemas as cultural venues.

Berlin is a film city. The Left wants to give more money for film funding. Film festivals, video games and small cinemas should also get support. Old films should be saved in digital form.

The Left wants to develop press funding together with other German states that leaves editorial independence untouched. Protection against SLAPPs, lawsuits meant to intimidate journalists, should also apply to purely domestic cases.

Newspapers are struggling because big internet companies are strong. The Left wants to support the press with money. The state should not interfere with reporting. Journalists should be better protected from lawsuits meant to scare them.

The Left wants broadcaster contracts and film funding tied more closely to collective agreements, jobs with social insurance and fair fees. For artificial intelligence in media, it calls for clear rules and worker co-determination. The share of women and diversity in the industry should increase.

People who work in media should get fair pay. Companies with public funding should follow union wage agreements. There should be clear rules for artificial intelligence. More women and more different kinds of people should work in media.

The Left wants to write the funding of key memorial institutions into Berlin's state constitution to secure them even under governments that include the AfD. At the same time, remembrance culture is to be broadened to cover German colonialism and victim groups that have received little attention so far.

The Left wants to protect important memorial sites for the long term. The money for them should be written into Berlin's constitution. There should be new memorial sites, for example on German colonialism. Colonialism means Germany once ruled over other countries. Staff should get better working conditions.

After the budget cuts, the SPD wants to give cultural institutions planning certainty again and preserve the full range of cultural infrastructure. Culture should be easy to access, for example by bringing back the free-admission Museum Sunday. The federal government is to take on a larger share of responsibility for culture in Berlin.

The SPD wants to keep theaters, museums, clubs, and other cultural places. They should be able to plan safely again. Culture should cost little or nothing. Museum Sunday with free entry should come back.

The SPD wants to improve working conditions in the cultural sector. It advocates collectively agreed wages, binding minimum fees, and appropriate exhibition fees. Funding is to be multi-year, approved early, and transparent.

People who work in culture should be paid fairly. The SPD wants minimum fees. That is the lowest amount an artist must be paid. Funding should be promised for several years.

The SPD wants to secure libraries permanently through a state law and develop them as neighborhood meeting places. A cultural funding law and an urban development plan for culture are to anchor culture in city planning. District-level offerings such as music schools and adult education centers are to grow.

The SPD wants a law for libraries. It should secure their money. Another law should support culture. New neighborhoods should get places for culture from the start.

The SPD wants to give Berlin's memorial sites more money and staff. It regards the critical examination of National Socialism and the SED dictatorship as a fixed part of democratic culture. Projects on East German experiences and life stories are to be funded.

The SPD wants to give memorial sites in Berlin more money and staff. These places recall the Nazi era and the East German dictatorship. The experiences of people from East Germany should also be made visible.

The SPD wants to permanently anchor the citywide concept "Kolonialismus erinnern" (Remembering Colonialism) and implement its recommendations step by step. A central site of remembrance and learning is to be created. Streets that commemorate colonial criminals are to be renamed.

Germany once had colonies. The SPD wants Berlin to remember this. There will be a central place for remembering and learning. Streets named after colonial criminals will get new names.

The SPD stands by public broadcasting and its funding. The Berlin-Brandenburg media authority is to receive secure long-term funding. Local journalism is to be supported so that neighborhoods keep an informed public.

The SPD wants to keep public TV and radio. Their funding should be safe too. The media watchdog for Berlin and Brandenburg should get enough money. Local news should get support.