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

The AfD rejects the mandatory broadcasting fee and wants to amend the interstate broadcasting treaty so that only users pay. Public broadcasting would shrink and be limited to information and regional coverage, as the AfD accuses it of bias, waste and breaches of the law.

Today every household pays the broadcasting fee. The AfD wants only viewers to pay. Public broadcasting should become smaller. It should mainly inform and report on the region.

The AfD wants to fund monument protection according to need while easing the rules for old buildings of no public interest so they can be lived in. It also supports rebuilding lost historic structures.

The AfD wants to give more money for old buildings. For some old houses the rules should be looser. Then people can rebuild them and live there. The AfD wants to rebuild lost historic buildings.

The AfD wants to preserve Brandenburg's customs and the culture of the Sorbs and Wends and give more support to heritage clubs. Historic names of streets and squares should stay, and historic cultural assets should be digitized.

The AfD wants to keep old customs in Brandenburg. These include folk dress, songs and folk festivals. The culture of the Sorbs and Wends should stay too. Clubs for customs should get more help. Old street names should stay.

The AfD wants to abolish the Schatzregal (treasure trove rule), under which hidden ownerless finds belong to the state. Because finders get no reward, the party says finds often go unreported.

Anyone who finds old treasure in Brandenburg must give it to the state. This rule is called Schatzregal. The finder gets no reward. The AfD wants to end the rule. Then more finders will report what they find, the AfD says.

The AfD wants permanent jobs to be the norm for music school teachers with a university degree and wants to fund music schools, young orchestra musicians and the visual arts. Strongly political cultural institutions should no longer receive tax money.

Teachers at public music schools should get permanent jobs. The AfD wants to fund music and art. Cultural groups with a strong political leaning should get no tax money. Parties should have less say over culture.

The AfD wants to commemorate war victims, preserve the World War I memorials and pay for the search for unburied war dead. They are to receive a dignified burial.

The AfD wants to remember those who died in wars. Old war memorials should stay. Many dead soldiers still lie on old battlefields. The AfD wants to pay to find them. They should get a proper grave.

The BSW calls for a culture funding law modeled on Saxony's that permanently secures support for cultural institutions. Funding culture is to become a mandatory task for municipalities, and a single ministry of education and cultural affairs is to be created.

The BSW wants a new law for culture. It should pay for theaters, orchestras and small venues for the long term. Towns should have to fund culture. Freelance artists should be able to live from their work. Two ministries should become one.

The BSW wants school students, trainees and university students from Brandenburg to use the state's museums and libraries free of charge. Children and young people are to come into contact with all the arts early, including in rural areas.

School students, trainees and university students should pay no entry fee. This applies to the state's museums and libraries. Children should get to know art and music early. This should also be possible in rural areas. Primary schools should offer more music lessons.

The BSW wants to guarantee long-term funding for the Foundation for the Sorbian People at no less than today's level. It also wants permanent cultural and educational autonomy for the Sorbs and Wends, and teacher training for the Lower Sorbian language in Brandenburg.

The Sorbs and Wends are a minority in Brandenburg. The BSW wants to protect their language and culture. The money for their foundation should not go down. Brandenburg should train teachers for their language.

The BSW rejects the increase in the broadcasting fee proposed by the KEF commission and calls for reforming public broadcasting instead. A structural reform is to be discussed in a format with direct citizen participation.

The BSW does not want the broadcasting fee to go up. Instead, public broadcasting should change. Citizens should have a say in this. Programs should show more about Brandenburg.

The CDU wants to develop the state's cultural policy further through a strategy with secure funding. Cultural offerings should be available throughout the state, since the party sees culture as a source of identity and cohesion.

The CDU wants to support culture across the state. There should be a clear plan with secure money. Music schools should get more help. Zoos should get state support. Buses should bring rural people to cultural sites.

The CDU wants to keep alive the memory of the Nazi era and the SED (East German communist) dictatorship and adapt it to the dwindling number of eyewitnesses. The Cottbus Human Rights Center would become the state's central memorial to injustice in the GDR.

The CDU wants people to remember the Nazi era and East Germany. Few eyewitnesses are still alive. So new ways of remembering are needed. Cottbus should get a main memorial for East German injustice. People should learn there about persecution.

The CDU wants to promote the language, culture, and identity of the Sorbs and Wends and fulfill the constitutional mandate to preserve their language. Low German should also be kept alive and passed on as cultural heritage.

The Sorbs and Wends live in Lusatia. They have their own language. The CDU wants to protect this language and culture. More teachers are needed for this. The old language Low German should also stay alive.

The SPD wants to keep supporting and preserving Babelsberg as a film location. The platform justifies this with the international profile the studio gives the state and with the investment generated by the media industry.

Babelsberg has a famous film studio. The SPD wants to keep supporting this location. The studio makes Brandenburg known around the world. The media industry also brings a lot of money to the state.

The SPD sees culture as a public good that should be open to everyone and must not be subordinated to commercial goals. It wants to keep funding cultural institutions, cover collective wage increases for funded institutions from the state budget, and strengthen cultural offerings in rural areas.

The SPD says culture is for everyone. The state should keep funding theaters, orchestras, music schools and art schools. When wages go up, the state pays for this at funded institutions. Rural areas should have cultural offerings too.

The SPD wants to agree on a state treaty with the Central Council of Jews that could also make teacher training possible. The platform calls churches and religious and philosophical communities important partners; it also wants to support the culture of the Sorbs and Wends and the Low German language.

The SPD wants to sign a treaty with the Central Council of Jews. The treaty should also make it possible to train teachers. The SPD wants to work with churches and religious groups. It also wants to keep the language of the Sorbs and Wends alive.

The SPD wants a fundamental reform of public broadcasting that pays attention to stable license fees and funding. It also wants to safeguard press freedom and keep supporting local journalism from the state budget.

The SPD wants to reform the public broadcasters. The broadcasting fee should stay stable. Pay for top managers should be limited at all public broadcasters. Journalists should be protected. Local media should keep getting money from the state.