What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on culture and media?

The AfD wants to preserve the skilled trades as cultural heritage. It plans a digital archive, trade weeks in schools and support for businesses that practice traditional techniques. This is meant to spark young people's interest in trade careers.

The AfD sees the skilled trades as part of culture. It wants an online archive about the history of the trades. Students should learn about trades in special weeks. Businesses that use old techniques should get help.

The AfD wants to adjust funding for historic buildings to actual need, better protect museum pieces against theft, and strengthen arts education. The platform justifies this with regional identity and preserving historical heritage for future generations.

The AfD wants to keep old buildings. There should be suitable funding for this. Museums should protect their valuable pieces better from thieves. Children should keep having music and art at school.

The AfD wants to give permanent funding to the state chapter of the Bund der Vertriebenen (Federation of Expellees) and provide more money for cultural heritage from Germany's former eastern territories. A meeting center would be built for ethnic German resettlers. The platform argues the state has neglected its legal duty to preserve this heritage.

The AfD wants to care for the culture of expellees. Expellees are Germans who had to leave their homes in the east after the war. Their association in the state would get steady money. Ethnic Germans from Russia and other countries would get a meeting place.

The AfD wants to scrap the Rundfunkbeitrag (household broadcasting fee) and terminate the interstate broadcasting treaties. Today's public broadcasters are to be replaced by a slimmed-down "Grundfunk" (basic broadcaster) limited to information, education and culture. It is to be paid for by a levy on the revenues of large internet companies.

The AfD wants to end the broadcasting fee. The public TV and radio stations should become much smaller. The new service is called Grundfunk. It should only offer news, education and culture. Big internet companies should pay for it.

The AfD wants to cap the salaries of directors general at public broadcasters and of directors at public theaters and tie them to public-sector pay scales. In addition, the number of broadcasting oversight bodies is to be cut and the broadcasters' administration simplified.

The heads of broadcasters and theaters earn a lot. The AfD wants to limit these salaries. They should earn what public employees earn. The broadcasters should have fewer boards. A board is a group that advises or decides.

The CDU wants to make cultural funding reliable and predictable through a law and to simplify procedures. People under 21 are to visit state museums and monuments free of charge.

The CDU wants a law for funding culture. Cultural groups should be able to plan better. Applications should become simpler. Young people under 21 will not pay to enter state museums.

The CDU wants to sign a flat-rate agreement with GEMA (the music licensing society) so that nonprofit clubs and noncommercial events pay less in music license fees. It also wants to review and adjust the new rules for large events in the state's police and public order law.

Clubs must pay GEMA when they play music. GEMA collects money for musicians. The CDU wants the state to make a deal with GEMA. Then clubs pay less. The CDU also wants to check the rules for big festivals.

The CDU wants to keep and further develop the dual system of public and private broadcasting. The broadcasting fee is to stay stable, with increases avoided through reforms and cooperation among the broadcasters.

There are public and private broadcasters. The CDU wants to keep both. The broadcasting fee should not go up. Public broadcasters should spend money more carefully. Rhineland-Palatinate should stay an important place for media.

The Greens want to make media education a fixed element from daycare onward and support efforts to counter disinformation. They also back public broadcasting and want to strengthen regional media and the creative industries.

Children should learn early how to deal with media. This should start in daycare. The Greens want to inform people about false news. They want to keep many different media in the state.

The Greens want to continue remembrance work on National Socialism and make May 8 a memorial day. Every student should visit a Nazi-era memorial site once free of charge. German colonial history is also to be examined critically.

The Greens want people to remember the crimes of the Nazis. May 8 should become a memorial day. Every student should visit a memorial site once for free. People should also remember the crimes in the former colonies.

The Greens want reliable funding for culture and, to that end, a culture law with a funding plan for each legislative term. Grant applications are to become simpler and digital. Young people are to receive an RLP-Kulturpass (culture pass) that gives them access to cultural life.

The Greens want a culture law. It would include a fixed plan for funding culture. Applying for money should be simple and digital. Young people should get a culture pass. It would make it easier for them to enjoy culture.

The Greens want people working in arts and culture to be able to live off their work. They plan to extend minimum fees tied to state funding and to increase the state culture budget. Volunteer-run cultural work is to be backed by paid staff.

The Greens want better pay for artists. Projects with state money should pay minimum fees. The state should spend more money on culture. Volunteers in culture should also get more help.

The Greens want every young person to have access to arts and culture, from daycare through school and beyond. Cultural education is to become part of all-day schooling, and cultural institutions are to get more funding as meeting places. New spaces for culture are also to be created in cities and rural areas.

All children and young people should experience art and culture. This should also happen in all-day schools. Libraries, music schools, theaters and museums should get more money. Buses should take school classes to cultural places. People with little money should get cheap or free access to culture.

The Greens want to recognize clubs and discos as cultural venues and make them a fixed part of municipal urban planning. Existing locations are to be secured. At the same time, measures against sexualized violence in nightlife are to be strengthened.

The Greens see clubs and discos as part of culture. Cities should include clubs in their planning. The party wants to stop clubs from closing. Going out should be safe for everyone. So there should be more protection from sexual violence.

The Greens want to raise awareness of the state's cultural heritage and help museums examine their collections. An advisory office is to help identify objects linked to Nazi-looted property or colonial contexts. The state's culture is also to become more visible, for example by hosting a European Capital of Culture.

The Greens want more people to know the state's cultural heritage. Museums should check where their objects come from. Some objects may have been stolen in the Nazi era. Others may come from former colonies. An advice office should help museums with this.

The SPD wants to strengthen memorial sites on the Nazi era, expand visitor programs and root remembrance work more firmly in the regions. Hambach Castle is to get a new permanent exhibition for the 200th anniversary of the Hambach Festival in 2032.

The SPD wants to remember the crimes of the Nazi era. Memorial sites should get more support. More school classes should visit them. Hambach Castle will get a new exhibition by 2032.

The SPD wants to build on the state's cultural development planning and work out a clear framework for arts funding together with artists, as a basis for a cultural funding act. Access to grants is to become easier. Artists should be able to make a living from their work.

The SPD wants to fund culture reliably. There should be clear rules for this. Artists should have a say in the rules. Applying for grants should be easier. Artists should be able to live from their work.

The SPD wants to keep strengthening the state's major theaters, art-house cinemas, the independent arts scene and volunteer-run cultural initiatives. The program "Zukunft durch Kultur" (Future through Culture) is to be expanded, and more municipalities are to get regional culture managers. A solution is to be found for the high GEMA fees paid by nonprofit clubs.

The SPD wants to strengthen theaters and cinemas in the state. Independent theater groups should get help too. Volunteer culture groups get support from paid staff. Clubs often pay a lot for music to GEMA. GEMA collects money for musicians. The SPD wants to find a solution for this.

The SPD wants every child to gain early access to culture regardless of social background. Arts education is to be expanded, especially in cooperation with all-day schools. Libraries are to be secured as places of participation and supported in going digital.

Every child should experience art and music early on. This should not depend on the parents' money. Artists should work more with all-day schools. The SPD also wants to strengthen libraries. Libraries should get more digital services.

The SPD wants to preserve the state's cultural heritage, make it accessible to everyone and raise its profile beyond the state. State-owned monuments are to be renovated, the monument protection act made less bureaucratic and a monument protection prize created. The party wants to pursue the restitution of cultural property consistently.

Rhineland-Palatinate has many old castles and World Heritage sites. The SPD wants to keep and repair them. Everyone should be able to visit them. The law on protecting monuments should become simpler. There should be a prize for people who protect monuments. The SPD wants to return cultural objects that were wrongly acquired.

The SPD is committed to the dual media system of public broadcasting and private media and wants to permanently safeguard media law against anti-democratic threats. Large platforms are to face stronger obligations and effective regulation at the EU level as well. The state media authority is to remain independent.

The SPD wants to keep both public and private media. Public media are, for example, ARD and ZDF. Media law should protect democracy. Big internet platforms should get more duties. Fact-based content should be easier to find. The EU should also set stricter rules for platforms.

The SPD wants to bundle the state's media literacy programs in a joint strategy across all ministries and make them visible under one umbrella brand. It calls for clear, age-appropriate rules for social media use by children and teenagers. Community media and open channels are to be strengthened.

People should know how to use media well. The state has many programs for this. The SPD wants to combine them in one plan. Children and teenagers should be protected online. There should be clear rules by age for social media.

The SPD wants to expand the state's media funding and focus it more on film and games. A new Film Commission Rheinland-Pfalz is to support film productions as a central point of contact. At the federal level, the party advocates public support for the press.

The SPD wants to give more money for films and video games. There should be a new office for film crews. It is called the Film Commission. It helps with filming in the state. Newspaper publishers should also get federal support.