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

The AfD wants to develop a "New Old Town Hamburg" concept to restore historic centers lost in the war and postwar reconstruction at two sites. Small-scale buildings are to be built at Hopfenmarkt and Schaarmarkt.

Hamburg was destroyed in the war. Later, the city was rebuilt for cars. Old neighborhoods were lost. The AfD wants to rebuild the old town in two places. Small houses like in the past should go there.

The AfD sees the German language as a key cultural asset to be preserved. It rejects rules for "gender-fair" and "politically correct" language and wants to stop state interference in how the language develops. It backs initiatives to ban gender-inclusive language in public administration and education.

The AfD wants to protect the German language. It opposes gender-inclusive language. One example is a star symbol inside words. The state should not set language rules. The AfD supports a ban in offices and schools.

The AfD wants to reform the broadcasting fee and overhaul the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty, or terminate it if reform fails. The goal is a slimmed-down "Grundfunk" (basic broadcasting), and no one should be required to pay for public broadcasting anymore.

Today every household pays a broadcasting fee. The AfD wants to change that. Nobody should have to pay anymore. There should only be a small basic service. It should report neutrally. Otherwise Hamburg should quit the broadcasting treaty.

The AfD affirms artistic freedom and supports Hamburg's theater and museum culture. If publicly funded stages or exhibition venues are, in its view, used for one-sided political propaganda, their funding should be withdrawn immediately.

The AfD wants art to be free. It supports theaters and museums in Hamburg. But some stages do one-sided politics, the AfD says. Then the city should stop paying them.

The AfD wants to block renamings of streets and squares that it considers ideologically motivated. Renamings that have already happened should be reversed where possible.

Some streets get new names. The AfD often sees this as ideological. It wants to stop such new names. Old names should come back if possible.

The CDU wants to create a promenade on the Binnenalster lake on lengthened and widened jetties. In addition, cultural and academic buildings announced years ago are to be built quickly and combined where possible.

The CDU wants to build a long promenade on the water at the Binnenalster. There would be room for restaurants and for relaxing. Planned museums and libraries should be built faster. Some of them could move into one shared building.

The CDU commits to the freedom of art and culture and rejects boycott calls and intimidation. At the same time, a clause is meant to prevent public money from going to extremist or anti-constitutional organizers and content.

Art should be free. The CDU is against boycotts and intimidation. But extremists should not get money from the state. A new funding rule is meant to make sure of that.

The CDU wants the city's culture funding to rise at least in line with inflation. Access to culture should not depend on income, and barriers for people with disabilities should be reduced further.

The CDU wants to support culture in Hamburg. The city's money should rise when prices rise. Everyone should be able to enjoy culture. That includes people with little money or with disabilities.

The CDU wants to improve conditions for Hamburg's music scene and fund its institutions adequately where needed. It plans to improve pay for teachers at the Jugendmusikschule (public youth music school).

The CDU wants to strengthen music in Hamburg. Orchestras, clubs and choirs should have good conditions. The youth music school needs enough teachers. So the CDU wants to improve pay there.

The CDU wants a new external review of funding for Hamburg's private theaters so that it is sufficient and fair. The building of the Hamburger Kammerspiele theater should be bought back early if possible.

Hamburg has many private theaters. The CDU wants a check on whether they get enough money. Outside experts should do this check. The city should buy back the Kammerspiele theater building.

The CDU wants to draw up a plan that reviews the planned museum projects, ranks them by importance, and sets out costs and a timeline. Its priorities are the German Port Museum and the Evolutioneum in HafenCity.

Hamburg is planning several new museums. The CDU wants to make a plan for them. The plan should settle costs and timing. The port museum and a nature museum should come first.

The CDU wants the Bücherhallen (public libraries) to open more often on Sundays and holidays and to develop them into places for meeting and integration. Neighborhood culture is to receive targeted support, especially in districts with few meeting places.

The Bücherhallen are Hamburg's public libraries. The CDU wants them open more often on Sundays. People should be able to meet there. Culture in the neighborhoods should also get more help.

The CDU wants to keep monuments, memorial sites and historic street names in the cityscape and add context rather than remove them. The city itself should set an example in heritage protection and not demolish listed buildings.

The CDU wants to keep old buildings and monuments. Streets should keep their old names. Signs should explain the history behind them. The city should not tear down protected buildings.

The CDU wants a strategy that sharpens Hamburg's profile as a media hub and lowers barriers for companies to settle there. Training, universities and continuing education should supply enough skilled staff for journalism and the media industry.

Hamburg should stay an important city for media. The CDU wants to make a plan for this. Companies should find it easier to settle there. There should be enough skilled people for the media.

The CDU calls public broadcasting a pillar of democracy and at the same time wants to reform its structure and content. Costs should not rise while digital offerings are strengthened, for example through a single shared media library.

The CDU says public broadcasting matters for democracy. But it should change. It should not get more expensive. There should be one shared online library for all channels.

The Greens want to plan low-cost spaces for arts and culture systematically into urban development. A dedicated management company for cultural properties is to look after suitable city-owned sites, because rising commercial rents and scarce space are putting pressure on the scene.

Culture needs space. But rents for such spaces are rising. The Greens want to plan cheap spaces for culture. A new city company is to manage buildings for culture.

The Greens want a reliable culture budget and stronger cultural life in the neighborhoods. Neighborhood cultural centers are to receive sufficient funding, and new centers are to be created in areas with high social need. History workshops and the public libraries (Bücherhallen) are also to keep receiving support.

The Greens want to support culture in the neighborhoods. Cultural centers should get enough money. New centers should open where people have little money. The public libraries should also be able to offer more.

The Greens want to keep the "Musikstadt" (music city) vision and support music continuously from daycare to university. Orchestras, amateur choirs, and projects for young talent are to get more support. The music industry is also to be strengthened as a sector.

Hamburg should stay a city of music. Children and young people should be able to make music early. Choirs and orchestras should get more money. Companies in the music business should also get help.

The Greens want to give Hamburg's music clubs more support in light of rising artist fees and rents. They plan a new funding guideline and an annual investment fund for soundproofing and energy-efficiency upgrades. Spontaneous, non-commercial open-air parties are to be easy to register.

Music clubs have high costs. The Greens want to give them more money. Clubs can use it for soundproofing, for example. That also helps the neighbors. Outdoor parties should be easier to register.

The Greens want to preserve Hamburg's built cultural heritage despite the pressure on scarce land. The representation of heritage protection in the monument council and the monument association is to be strengthened. The party sees a right of associations to sue as a possible tool.

Old, valuable buildings in Hamburg should be kept. The Greens want to strengthen the experts for heritage protection. Associations may also get the right to go to court. That way they can protect monuments better.

The Greens want to build up Hamburg as a film location and double the funding budget for films and series. Filmfest Hamburg is to receive an additional one million euros per year. The platform justifies this with the added value, tax revenue, and jobs it says the industry brings.

Many films and series are made in Hamburg. The Greens want to give twice as much funding for them. The film festival should get one million euros more per year. The film school should also get more money from the city.

The Greens want to preserve the major stages, support private theaters facing rising costs, and improve funding for the independent performing arts. The independent scene is to share in increases in theater funding through a fixed ratio. Culture for children and young people is also to be strengthened further.

Hamburg has big and small theaters. The Greens want to support all of them. Independent artists should get more funding and fair pay. Theaters for children and young people should stay strong too.

The Greens want to create a dedicated support structure tailored to the music industry. The platform justifies this with the sector's importance for the economy, tourism, the city's image and attracting skilled workers.

Very many people in Hamburg work in the music industry. The Greens want to give this industry special support. There should be a separate support office for it. It should help with skilled workers, new ideas and promotion.

The Greens want to expand the city's remembrance policy and create new memorial and learning sites on the Nazi era. Remembrance is to be guided by victims and survivors of far-right violence and, in the platform's view, help defend democracy.

The Greens want to remember the crimes of the Nazi era. There should be new places for remembering and learning. One place should honor the resistance against the Nazis. A reporting office should record damage to memorial sites.

The Greens want to make May 8, the Day of Liberation, an official public holiday. The goal is a nationwide holiday; until then, Hamburg is to adopt its own.

World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. The Greens want to make this day a public holiday. Ideally in all of Germany. Until then, it should be a holiday in Hamburg.

The Greens want to develop the citywide remembrance concept on colonial heritage further and strengthen research on it. According to the platform, Hamburg bears a special responsibility for coming to terms with its colonial history.

Hamburg has a colonial history. The Greens want to keep working through this history. The university should do more research on it. The Hagenbeck zoo should remember the human exhibitions it once held.

The Left wants to extend free museum admission to university students and apprentices and introduce one free Sunday a month for everyone. Neighborhood culture, public libraries and the independent arts scene should get more money and binding minimum fees.

Museums should be free for more people. This applies to students and apprentices. On one Sunday a month, everyone should get in for free. Artists should be paid better. Neighborhood culture should get more money.

The Left wants to make May 8 a public holiday and strengthen remembrance of Nazi persecution and resistance in the city center. Streets and squares named after figures of colonialism and militarism are to be renamed.

World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. The Left wants to make this day a holiday. A place in the city center should remember the people the Nazis persecuted. Some streets are named after colonial rulers. These streets should get new names.

The Left wants to preserve public broadcasting and place it under democratic oversight. The broadcasting fee should be made more socially fair, and freelancers at the broadcasters should get permanent jobs with social insurance.

The Left wants strong public broadcasting. The broadcasting fee should become fairer. Freelancers at the broadcasters should get permanent jobs. There should be a gender quota at NDR.

The SPD wants to support Jewish life in Hamburg and make it visible, and to fight every form of antisemitism. The Bornplatz Synagogue in the Grindel quarter is to be rebuilt and its surroundings redesigned together with the Jewish community.

The SPD wants to strengthen Jewish life in Hamburg. It opposes hatred of Jews. The Bornplatz Synagogue should be rebuilt. The area around it should be redesigned. The Jewish community will help plan this.

The SPD wants to continue the dialogue among religions and worldviews and to keep the state treaties with the Muslim religious communities. The shared religious education for all is to be secured through stronger degree programs and professorships.

People of many religions live in Hamburg. The SPD wants to keep talking with all communities. The treaties with the Muslim communities should stay. Children learn about religions together. More teachers should be trained for this.

The SPD wants to preserve and expand Hamburg's cultural infrastructure and secure both institutional and project funding. Funded institutions are to reach out to a more diverse audience, and cultural education is to grow.

The SPD wants to keep funding theaters, museums, and music in Hamburg. Culture should be there for everyone. Venues should reach out to new visitors. Children and teenagers should get more cultural programs.

The SPD wants to give better support to cultural producers outside institutionally funded venues. This includes a new grant for independent literary publishers and more money for clubs, film, and the independent arts scene.

The SPD wants to give money to small book publishers. Music clubs should also get more money. There will be more funding for films too. Independent artists and art spaces will get more help.

The SPD wants space for culture to be planned, preserved, and newly created in every urban development process. The city's Kreativ Gesellschaft (creative industries agency) is to become the central partner for this.

Hamburg is growing and getting denser. The SPD still wants to keep spaces for culture. New spaces should be created too. The city's creative agency should take care of this.

The SPD wants to establish good working conditions in the cultural sector. Neighborhood cultural centers are to receive enough money to pay their staff in line with job evaluations.

People working in culture should be paid fairly. Neighborhood cultural centers will get more money for this. Artists should receive minimum fees. Funding should be easier for everyone to access.

The SPD wants to continue major cultural projects despite tight budgets. These include the Haus der digitalen Welt (House of the Digital World), the German Port Museum, renovations of several venues, and a new opera house with a private foundation.

The SPD wants to keep building big cultural projects. One is a House of the Digital World in the city center. A port museum and a new opera house are also planned. Old cultural buildings will be renovated.

The SPD wants to implement the memorial sites concept, renew the exhibitions at Neuengamme, and address Hamburg's colonial past. Heritage protection is to continue in dialogue with private initiatives.

The SPD wants to remember the crimes of the Nazi era. The exhibitions at the Neuengamme memorial will be renewed. Hamburg should also deal with its colonial history. Old buildings should stay protected.

The SPD wants to strengthen Hamburg as an innovative media hub, help media companies adopt AI and other technologies, and expand games funding. Journalistic skills and news literacy are also to receive more support.

Many media companies work in Hamburg. The SPD wants to help them with new technology such as AI. Video game companies should get more funding. Good journalism should also be strengthened. People should learn to judge news properly.