What do the parties in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania say on culture and media?

The AfD wants to terminate the NDR state treaty and the Medienstaatsvertrag (interstate media treaty) and abolish the broadcasting fee. Today's public broadcasting would be replaced by a small "Grundfunk" (basic broadcaster) limited to information, education, culture and regional coverage.

The AfD wants to abolish the broadcasting fee. The state should end the treaties for the public broadcaster NDR. There should only be a small basic broadcaster. It should offer news, education, culture and regional reports.

The AfD rejects the plan to privatize the Redefin state stud farm and wants to keep it in public hands. The platform justifies this with the stud's importance as a cultural asset and part of the state's history. At the same time, it is to be strengthened economically.

The Redefin state stud is an old horse farm owned by the state. There is a plan to sell it. The AfD is against that. The farm should stay with the state. More visitors should bring it more money.

The AfD wants to anchor the protection of historic monuments in the constitution so it carries more weight, especially against energy projects. Funding for historic buildings and resources for the state heritage office would increase. Public buildings would follow a regional architectural style.

The AfD wants to protect old buildings better. Protecting monuments should be written into the constitution. Then it counts more when energy plants are planned. The state should give more money for old houses. Memorials for dead soldiers should also get money.

The AfD wants to give archaeological finds more public visibility and open up the megalithic tombs for rural tourism. It supports a state archaeological museum but rejects the current design and calls for a more cost-efficient solution.

The state has very old tombs made of huge stones. The AfD wants more tourists to visit them. It also wants to build a museum for old finds. It rejects the current plan for the museum. The museum should cost less.

The AfD wants cultural funding to focus on German and European culture, especially Low German folk art and the Plattdeutsch language. Projects it considers ideologically motivated would be reviewed. It backs the Theaterpakt MV (state theater agreement) and wants to secure the work of music schools.

The AfD mainly wants to support German and European culture. Plattdeutsch, the Low German language, matters most to it. It sees some projects as too political. It wants to review them. Theaters, orchestras, and music schools should stay.

The Greens want a state funding program for village festivals and other local gatherings. Village events would be eligible for up to 5,000 euros a year. In the party's view, such festivals hold rural communities together.

The Greens want to support village festivals with money. The state should set up its own program for this. A village could get up to 5,000 euros a year. The festivals should bring people in the village together.

The Greens want to strengthen the reckoning with the SED dictatorship (East Germany's ruling party) and fund it for the long term instead of cutting money. Teaching about the SED dictatorship, National Socialism and the Holocaust is to be mandatory in schools. The party argues that democracy becomes vulnerable when memory fades.

The Greens want people to remember the injustice in East Germany. Memorial sites and archives should get lasting funding. In school, everyone should learn about the East German dictatorship and the Nazi era. This should help people protect democracy.

The Greens want to make culture a mandatory public task by law, securing basic cultural provision in every region. Cultural venues are to be preserved, especially in rural areas, and state funding for artists and cultural workers improved.

The Greens want a culture law. The state would then have to fund culture. Movie theaters, libraries, and music schools should stay open in rural areas too. Artists should get more funding.

The Greens want state subsidies to help music and art schools cover the higher cost of employing teachers on regular contracts. The background is the Herrenberg ruling, under which many freelance teachers may count as falsely self-employed. According to the platform, people working in culture should be able to do so without fearing for their livelihood.

Many teachers at music and art schools work as freelancers. A court ruled that this is often not allowed. So the schools have to hire them as regular staff. That costs more money. The Greens want the state to give the schools this money.

The Greens want to develop libraries into open meeting places, especially for children and young people, and keep them open longer. For rural areas with few offerings, a mobile culture unit (Kulturmobil) is to run as a pilot project. The platform argues that cultural institutions are under pressure from rising costs and uncertain funding.

The Greens want to strengthen libraries. They should stay open longer. There should be more programs for children and young people. In rural areas, a culture bus should go from place to place. It brings culture to the villages.

The Greens want to extend the state's Theaterpakt (theater funding pact) and change it so that funding rises with inflation and collectively agreed wages. This is meant to give the theaters and their staff planning security. Two more companies are to be added to the pact.

The state gives money to theaters. The rules are in the theater pact. The Greens want to extend this pact. The money should go up when prices and wages go up. Two more theater companies should get money from the pact.

The Greens want to give targeted support to the state's creative industries and make them more visible. The plans include a funding program for video games, permanent support for festivals and clubs, and a restructuring of film funding. In the platform's view, existing funding structures have gaps.

The Greens want to support creative jobs in the state. There should be money for making video games. Festivals and clubs should get more lasting money from the state. Film funding should be reorganized. A website should show all cultural offerings.

The Greens want to draw up a heritage strategy for the state that is backed by staff and money and accompanied by academic research. Historic buildings and sites are to be preserved, opened to the public and kept in long-term use. The platform points to costly renovations and support that is hard to access for municipalities and private owners.

The state has many old buildings, such as manor houses and churches. Many of them are at risk. The Greens want a plan to protect these monuments. Towns and builders should get help and money more easily. An old reactor in Lubmin should be kept.

The Left wants to establish culture as a mandatory task in state policy and create a culture funding law. The program justifies this by saying cultural work has often depended on uncertain budgets and short-term decisions.

The Left wants a law for funding culture. Culture should be a fixed task of the state. The money should be secure for several years. This helps theaters and clubs plan better.

The Left wants to require binding minimum and base fees for publicly funded projects. According to the program, cultural workers often work under precarious conditions, and artistic freedom depends on material security.

The Left wants to pay artists better. Projects with public money should have a minimum fee. Time for preparation should also be paid. Artists should have better social protection.

The Left wants to keep cultural venues from being displaced and create protected status for them in building law. At the same time, barriers to accessing culture are to come down so that everyone can take part, regardless of income, origin or place of residence.

The Left wants to protect places for culture. Theaters, clubs and centers should not be pushed out. Everyone should be able to enjoy culture. For this, obstacles should go, such as high prices or steps.

The Left wants to expand media education in schools, outside of school and for adults. The program points to growing disinformation, manipulated content and hate messages, especially on social media.

The Left wants everyone to handle media better. Children and adults should learn this. Teachers should get training for it. The state's media authority should get more money.

The SPD wants to promote media literacy statewide and for all age groups. In the platform's view it should become as natural as arithmetic and writing, also because of the growing use of artificial intelligence. Campaigns against misinformation are part of the plan.

People should be able to check news and sources well. This is called media literacy. The SPD wants to promote it for young and old. Teachers and child care workers should get more help for this. There should be campaigns against false news.

The SPD is committed to strong, independent public broadcasting, which it sees as irreplaceable for informing the public. At the same time its structures should be efficient so that the shared funding model stays accepted.

The SPD wants to keep public TV and radio independent. They should inform people well. But the broadcasters should work in a thrifty way. Then people will keep accepting the broadcasting fee.

The SPD wants to secure local and regional media and community media for the long term because they report on what happens locally. Delivery of printed newspapers in rural areas is to get federal support. The state media authority would gain more powers on youth protection.

Local newspapers and stations report on your own town. The SPD wants to keep them. Community media keep getting money. The federal government should help so newspapers still reach rural areas.

The SPD wants cultural offerings to be accessible and inclusive, regardless of income, age, origin or disability. Apprentices and students are to get reduced admission to state-owned institutions. Cultural education and volunteer work are to be supported.

The SPD wants everyone to be able to enjoy culture. Offerings should be free of barriers. There should be offerings in easy language and sign language. Apprentices and students should pay less for entry.

The SPD wants to defend the freedom of art and support artists who deal with social issues. Projects in civic and intercultural education are to be funded. The program sees culture as a tool against exclusion, hatred and extremism.

The SPD says: art is free. It wants to protect this freedom. It wants to fund projects that strengthen democracy and diversity. Remembering history should also stay alive.

The SPD wants to keep supporting the Low German language, regional history and the state's cultural heritage. Paid staff and volunteers working in heritage preservation are to receive support.

The SPD wants to preserve the Low German language. It is also called Plattdeutsch. The history of the region should also be researched. People who care for local heritage should get help.

The SPD wants to continue and adapt the Theaterpakt (theater pact) between the state and municipalities beyond 2028. State cultural funding is to be updated in light of rising staff and material costs. Libraries, archives and museums are to be strengthened and made more accessible digitally.

The SPD wants to continue the theater pact after 2028. The pact secures money for the big theaters. Cultural funding should stay effective despite higher costs. Libraries, archives and museums should get more digital offerings.

The SPD wants to push for fair pay and good working conditions in the cultural sector and points to the minimum fees already introduced. It also wants to start a debate on anchoring art and culture as a state objective of the Federal Republic.

The SPD wants artists to be paid fairly. There are already minimum fees. The SPD also wants to start a debate. It is about making culture a state objective. A state objective is a fixed task of the state.

The SPD wants to use European funds in a targeted way for cultural heritage and small cultural initiatives. EU programs are to be used more for cross-border encounters. The program sees culture as a bridge to neighboring countries.

The SPD wants to use more EU money for culture. It wants to preserve cultural heritage with it. Small cultural groups and village halls should also get money. People from neighboring countries should meet through culture.

The SPD wants to give targeted support to cultural projects that bring offerings to villages and small towns. The Bürgerfonds Kultur (citizens' culture fund) is to stay and gain a regional focus. Volunteer cultural work is to face less red tape.

The SPD wants to support culture in villages and small towns. The citizens' culture fund should stay and grow. There should be book buses, mobile stages and traveling cinemas. Volunteers should have less paperwork.