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

The CDU wants to make Bremen more attractive at night, arguing that going-out options outside the Viertel and Neustadt districts have shrunk. It plans a night mayor and a program for clubs.

The CDU wants more places to go out in Bremen. There should be a night mayor. This person takes care of nightlife. Clubs should also get support.

The CDU wants to anchor the Bunker Valentin more firmly in Bremen's collective memory as a site commemorating Nazi crimes. To that end, all school classes in Bremen would be required to visit it.

The Bunker Valentin is a reminder of the crimes of the Nazi era. The CDU wants to make this place better known. All school classes in Bremen should have to visit it. It should also be easier to get there.

The CDU wants to organize cultural funding by thematic priorities and make it more reliable. Revenue from the Citytax (lodging tax) is to pay for a fund that doubles private donations to cultural foundations. Grants, training and joint state-level funding for Bremen and Bremerhaven are also planned.

The CDU wants to fund culture in a new way. The money should be reliable and last longer. A new fund should double private donations to cultural foundations. The money comes from the Citytax. That is a charge on hotel stays. Young artists should get grants.

The CDU wants to promote exchange between cultural venues, schools and nursing homes and make culture more visible in schools. Libraries, adult education centers and museums are to be better equipped as meeting places. Cultural organizations are to receive funding for sustainable and climate-friendly operations.

The CDU wants more culture in schools. Artists should help in class. Students should visit theaters and museums more often. Libraries should be open seven days a week. They should have good technology and places to work.

The CDU wants artists to be paid on a mandatory basis when their work is shown in public exhibition venues. A fund of 100,000 euros is to enable the venues to pay. In doing so, the party backs the "Pay the artist" initiative of the artists' association BBK.

Artists show their work in exhibitions. Often they get no money for this. The CDU wants to change that. Public exhibition venues should have to pay artists. A fund of 100,000 euros should help.

The CDU wants to make the museums in Bremen and Bremerhaven more attractive and open them to research and the public through a digital culture strategy. The diversity of the theater landscape is to be preserved, and amateur theaters and the independent scene are to get more funding. The party also wants to support private commitment to culture.

The CDU wants to modernize the museums. People should also be able to visit museums online. The museums should get Wi-Fi. The theaters in Bremen and Bremerhaven should stay. Small and independent theaters should get more money.

The CDU commits to Radio Bremen as an independent broadcaster within the ARD network. In the debates about the future of public broadcasting, it wants to secure the station's continued existence.

The CDU wants to keep Radio Bremen. The station should stay independent. It is part of the ARD network. The CDU wants to stand up for it when people argue about public broadcasting.

The CDU wants to strengthen and better connect initiatives that build media literacy among children, young people and adults. It argues that people are increasingly becoming active participants on social media.

The CDU wants everyone to handle digital media well. This applies to children, young people and adults. Groups that teach this should get more support. They should also work together better.

The CDU wants to preserve regional news coverage and, where appropriate, add state money to federal support for newspaper distribution. Film and media funding through Nordmedia is to be reviewed and improved, with a focus on the games industry.

The CDU wants to keep regional newspapers. The state may help with money. The CDU also wants to check the funding for film and media. Companies that make computer games should get special attention.

The FDP wants to simplify permits for film and television shoots in the ports and promote the ports as filming locations. It expects this to improve the image of the maritime industry and of both cities.

The FDP wants to make filming in the ports easier. Film crews should get permits faster. The ports should become known as places to film. This should be good for the image of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The FDP wants to preserve and maintain historic buildings in Bremen and Bremerhaven. To do so, more money is to go into heritage protection of city-owned buildings, and a fund is to be created from which private owners can apply for money.

The FDP wants to keep old buildings. The city should spend more money on its old buildings. There should also be a fund. A fund is a pot of money. Private owners can get money from it.

The FDP wants to limit public broadcasting to information and education and remove entertainment from its mandate. Through reforms of mandate and structure, the broadcasting fee is to fall to no more than 10 euros a month in the long run. Part of the broadcasting council is to be directly elected.

The FDP wants to make public broadcasting smaller. It should only inform and educate. Entertainment should be dropped. The broadcasting fee should fall to at most 10 euros a month.

The FDP wants to adequately fund the major cultural institutions in Bremen and Bremerhaven and to give targeted support to the independent arts scene. The program also views cultural spending as a way to strengthen the local economy and therefore wants to focus more on cultural tourism.

The FDP wants to pay theaters, museums, and other cultural places well. Independent artists should also get support. Culture should bring more visitors to the cities. The FDP says this also helps the economy.

The FDP supports lifting the general ban on dancing on certain public holidays. Its reasoning is that faith is a private decision and that no religious community should be favored.

On some holidays, public dancing is not allowed. The FDP wants to end this ban. It says faith is a private matter. No religion should get special treatment.

The FDP wants to strengthen Bremerhaven's cultural offerings, preserve the city's theaters, and expand cultural education for children and teenagers. The program sees culture as an asset for the city's appeal and as a driver of neighborhood development.

The FDP wants to strengthen culture in Bremerhaven. The theaters should stay. Children and teenagers should find it easier to enjoy culture. The city should advertise its culture more.

The FDP wants a new civic hall built on Wilhelm-Kaisen-Platz in Bremerhaven. An investor is to build and finance it, and the city would then rent it. In the program's view, this is the only way to get a new building soon.

Bremerhaven should get a new civic hall. It is for sports, culture, and trade fairs. A private company should build and pay for it. The city then rents the hall.

The FDP wants to strengthen the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven and have its museum ships repaired. The permanent exhibition of the Historical Museum is to be modernized, and admission fees are to be charged there again.

The FDP wants to strengthen the Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. The old ships should be repaired. The Historical Museum should get a new exhibition. Visiting it should cost money again.

The FDP wants to give the Nordseemuseum (North Sea Museum) in Bremerhaven a permanent exhibition site with a storage depot. The platform argues that many of the exhibits, currently in storage, are of high historical value.

The Nordseemuseum has no building of its own right now. Many items are kept in boxes. The FDP wants a fixed place for the exhibition. A storage space should be part of it.

The Greens want to convert the buildings of cultural institutions to be climate neutral. In their view, the ecological transition is not only a matter of technology but also of culture and aesthetics.

Theaters, museums and other cultural buildings should no longer harm the climate. The Greens want to convert these buildings. They say climate protection is also a question of culture. Bremen should take part in this debate.

The Greens want cultural offerings to reach people of every age, gender, level of education and neighborhood. Cultural education, events in unusual places and culture in the districts are meant to help. A culture ticket for apprentices and longer library opening hours are also planned.

All people should be able to enjoy culture. There should be culture in every neighborhood. There should also be events in parks or in nursing homes. Apprentices should get a cheap culture ticket. Libraries should be able to open on Sundays too.

The Greens want libraries to be accessible for longer, including on Sundays and outside regular opening hours. Families and shift workers, among others, are meant to benefit. A new branch of the city library is to be set up in Bremen-Blumenthal.

The Greens want libraries to be open longer. They should also open on Sundays. This helps families and shift workers. Blumenthal should get a new library.

The Greens want to make culture easier to access and create cultural centers in every district, for example by opening up school facilities. Cultural funding is to be guided more strongly by whether offerings reach many different groups of people.

The Greens want culture in every district. Schools should open their rooms for this. The city should ask people which offerings they miss. The culture ticket should become better known.

The Greens want to introduce a club register so that music venues and other cultural sites are taken into account in planning and not pushed out. They stand by the Freiluftpartygesetz (open-air party law) and want to make temporary cultural uses easier.

The Greens want to protect clubs. A list should show all clubs and cultural places. Then the city can consider them in building plans. Open-air parties should stay possible.

The Greens want to set up a permanent festival site in Bremen and provide basic funding for its operator and upkeep from the cultural budget. This is meant to make festivals easier to run and boost Bremen's reputation in the scene. Conditions for independent artists are also to improve.

The Greens want a fixed place for festivals in Bremen. The city should pay for it. This makes festivals easier. Independent artists should also get better conditions.

The Greens call for a strategy on remembrance culture and want to give the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (state agency for civic education) more money and staff for it. The memory of Nazi crimes is to remain tangible for younger generations even once the last witnesses are gone.

The Greens want a plan for remembering history. The state agency for civic education should get more money and staff. Young people should learn about the crimes of the Nazi era. The history of queer people should also become better known.

The Greens want to create a documentation center in Bremen on colonialism and its lasting effects. Colonial traces in the cityscape are not to remain unchanged but to be put in context and critically addressed.

The Greens want to build a center about colonial times. People can remember and learn there. Statues from that time should get an explanation. The city should show that it rejects that policy today.

The Greens want to list available squares and spaces downtown in an online exchange and hold a regular “Möglichkeitenmesse Innenstadt” (downtown opportunities fair). This is meant to help artists and cultural groups find spaces in the center. According to the platform, many of them have so far preferred vacant properties outside downtown.

The Greens want a website listing free spaces downtown. Artists can find suitable places there. There should also be a regular fair. Artists and building owners can meet there.

The Greens want more downtown offerings for younger people and for those less drawn to classical culture. Successful cultural projects are to be supported as they become established. For the Güterbahnhof (a cultural site at the former freight station), the platform calls for long-term planning security and financial help.

The Greens want more culture for young people downtown. This includes concerts, clubs, and studios. Good projects should get help. The artists at the Güterbahnhof should be able to stay there safely.

The Greens affirm press freedom and public broadcasting and want its oversight bodies to work better. At Radio Bremen, two citizens chosen by lot would join the broadcasting council, and an audience council would be created.

The Greens want to keep public broadcasting. But the broadcasters should be checked more closely. At Radio Bremen, two people picked by lot should join the broadcasting council. That council watches over the station. An audience council should advise the station.

The Greens want to support writers, journalists, and researchers who have fled their countries with fellowships. The planned Literaturhaus (house of literature) would get a center for exile literature.

Some writers and researchers have to flee war and persecution. The Greens want to help them in Bremen. They should get fellowships. A fellowship is money to live and work. The new house of literature should have a place for their books.

The Left wants to found a Bremen memorial sites foundation to develop the concept of Nazi-era remembrance and look after memorial sites. Crime sites and structures from that period are to be explained more clearly and artistically reworked.

The Left wants to set up a foundation for memorial sites in Bremen. It should take care of remembering the Nazi era. Places of Nazi crimes should become better known. There should also be a place about the persecution of queer people.

The Left wants unlawfully acquired objects in Bremen's museums fully returned to their societies of origin. Streets with colonial references are to be renamed, and colonial traces in the city made visible and put in context.

Bremen's museums hold things that were stolen in colonial times. The Left wants to give them back. Streets named after colonial criminals should get new names. Residents should not have to pay for this. The Bismarck statue should be changed by artists.

The Left wants to introduce regular free-admission days at museums and anchor culture in all city districts. Space for culture is to be planned into new development areas, and new rehearsal rooms for bands are to be created.

The Left wants everyone to be able to enjoy culture. Museums should be free on some days. New neighborhoods should have space for culture. Bands should get new rooms to rehearse. Open-air parties should stay allowed.

The Left wants to further increase public funding for culture. Projects that operate continuously are to receive permanent institutional funding, project grants are to grow, and a stipend program for artists is to continue.

The Left wants to spend more money on culture. Projects that work regularly should get lasting funding. Projects by women should get at least an equal share. Artists should keep getting stipends. Applications should be simple.

The Left wants to introduce exhibition fees for visual artists at publicly funded venues. Minimum fees in project funding should be adequate and honored, and fees at the Volkshochschule (adult education center) should rise.

Artists should be paid when museums show their work. This should apply to venues that get public money. Teachers at the adult education center should get higher fees. More art on public buildings should bring new commissions.

The Left wants to develop cultural education through a framework plan and expand cooperation between cultural practitioners and schools. The city library is to get more staff as a meeting place.

The Left wants a plan for cultural education. Artists and schools should work together more. Projects should only need one application at one office. The city library should get more staff. It is a place where people meet.

The Left wants Radio Bremen funded according to need, the broadcasting fee made more socially fair and advertising removed from public broadcasting. It also calls for reforms in transparency and oversight and for press subsidies kept at arm's length from the state.

The Left wants to keep Radio Bremen and public broadcasting. The broadcasting fee should be fairer to people with less money. Public channels should no longer show ads. Broadcasters should be more open and better supervised. Newspapers should get support without the state steering them.

The SPD wants to build a Stadtmusikanten- und Literaturhaus (Town Musicians and Literature House) in downtown Bremen and modernize the concert hall Die Glocke. Culture is meant to keep the center lively in the evenings as well. Small, easy-to-access cultural offerings are planned alongside.

The SPD wants to build a new house downtown. It is for books and for the Bremen Town Musicians. The concert hall Die Glocke should also be renewed. Culture should make the city lively in the evening too.

The SPD wants to highlight Bremen's town hall more strongly as a World Heritage site. The Untere Rathaushalle (lower town hall) is to become a World Heritage center, and new access points are to be created.

Bremen's town hall is a World Heritage site. That means it is specially valuable for the whole world. The SPD wants to show this better. A center is planned in the lower hall of the town hall. Visitors can learn more about Bremen's history there.

The SPD wants to give public funding to museums, galleries and other cultural institutions as places of learning outside school and link them more closely with schools. A pilot project called “Bremer Kulturschulen” (Bremen culture schools) is to give elementary schools money to build cultural offerings into the all-day program.

The SPD wants children to come into contact with culture more easily. Elementary schools should get money for this. They can use it to bring artists into the school. Museums should also work more with schools. There should be permanent jobs for this.

The SPD stands behind the programming of ARD, Radio Bremen, ZDF and Deutschlandradio. Radio Bremen is to remain an independent broadcaster. Public broadcasting should be able to develop across TV, radio and online, and be accessible to all.

The SPD supports the public broadcasters ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandradio and Radio Bremen. Radio Bremen should stay its own station. The broadcasters should be able to keep developing. Everyone should be able to use what they offer.

The SPD wants to make sustainability a guiding principle in Bremen's broadcasting and media laws. It also wants this principle included in the interstate treaties covering ZDF, Deutschlandradio and private providers.

The SPD wants new rules for broadcasters. Broadcasters should act in a sustainable way. That means they should care for the environment and the future. This should be written into the laws.

The SPD wants tighter regulation of international digital companies through the Interstate Media Treaty, because it sees them as a threat to free public debate. It also wants good conditions for local and regional journalism and supports net neutrality.

The SPD wants stricter rules for big internet companies. They should show openly how they work. Hate and false news online should be fought. The SPD also wants to protect local newspapers and media.

The SPD wants to deepen engagement with the Nazi past, colonialism and Bremen's migration history. Because many eyewitnesses are no longer alive, new ways of teaching this history are to be developed, including a regular youth exchange with the partner city of Haifa.

The SPD wants Bremen to remember its history. This includes the Nazi era. Young people from Bremen and Haifa should meet regularly. Haifa is a city in Israel. The history of immigration should also be told.

The SPD wants to improve pay in the cultural sector, for example artists' fees. Access to the Künstlersozialkasse (artists' social insurance fund) is to be made easier to prevent poverty in old age. The SPD also commits to protecting artistic freedom.

Artists should be paid fairly. It should be easier for them to join the artists' social insurance. This insurance helps them when they are old. That way they should not be poor in old age. Art should stay free.

The SPD wants to keep reliably funding theaters, museums, orchestras and other cultural institutions and to preserve the diversity of Bremen's cultural scene. Culture in the neighborhoods is to be strengthened as well. The platform points to culture's importance for the local economy and tourism.

The SPD wants to keep giving money to theaters, museums and orchestras. Everyone should be able to get into these places easily. There should also be good culture in the neighborhoods. The SPD says culture is also good for tourism.

The SPD wants significantly more people to take part in cultural life. Cultural institutions are to reach out into neighborhoods, and barriers for people with disabilities are to be removed. The platform sees this as a contribution to social cohesion.

The SPD wants more people to enjoy culture. Cultural groups should come to the neighborhoods. People with disabilities should get easier access. The SPD also wants to rethink ticket prices.

The SPD wants to turn the currently ad hoc arts education offerings in schools into a dependable network linking education and culture. It also backs Bremen's bid to become a City of Literature and the planned Stadtmusikanten- und Literaturhaus (Town Musicians and Literature House).

Artists already work in Bremen schools today. The SPD wants to turn this into a firm network. Schools should be able to rely on it. Bremen should also apply to become a City of Literature.

The SPD wants to make the city's cultural offerings more visible, both offline and online. A digital platform and an app with an events calendar are to be created for this purpose. Digitalization in the cultural sector is to continue overall.

The SPD wants to make culture in Bremen easier to see. There will be a website and an app. They will include a calendar of events. This should also bring new people to culture.

The SPD wants to give young cultural initiatives more room to experiment. Vacant spaces are to be listed in a culture register and made available, and hurdles for creative venues and outdoor activities are to be lowered. The aim is to attract young creative people to Bremen and keep them there.

Young artists need room to try things out. The SPD wants to collect free spaces in a list. Young groups should be able to use these spaces. There should also be fewer hurdles for new ideas.

The SPD wants to keep broadly supporting clubs as socio-cultural venues worth protecting and as a foundation for live music. Open-air events are to continue receiving organizational and financial help. Conflicts with neighbors are to be kept to a minimum through mediation.

The SPD wants many different clubs in Bremen. It sees clubs as important places for music and meeting people. Outdoor events should keep getting money and help. When there is trouble with neighbors, someone should mediate.