3 current election programs in Saarland have points on this topic.
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Program for the 2022 Saarland state election
The AfD wants to preserve inherited traditions and the country's culture and rejects a multicultural society. Politics should be guided by the well-being of the country's own people and citizens.
The AfD wants to keep traditions and culture. It rejects a multicultural society. That is a society where many cultures live side by side. Politics should serve the country's own citizens first.
The AfD wants to protect the German language as the core of national culture and opposes its displacement by English in public agencies, universities, and companies. It rejects gender-inclusive language and politically correct language rules. Reading and conversation are to be promoted, especially among young people.
The AfD wants to protect the German language. Public offices and universities should not switch to English. The AfD is against gender-inclusive language. Young people should read more. Fixed prices for books should stay.
The AfD considers German remembrance culture too narrowly focused on the 20th century and wants to extend it across many centuries, including positive sides of national and regional history. All school buildings in the state are to fly the black-red-gold flag regularly. It rejects renaming streets based on present-day standards.
The AfD wants to remember history in a different way. It should not only be about the 20th century. Good sides of German history should also be included. The German flag should fly regularly at all schools. Streets should keep their old names.
The AfD wants to limit film funding mainly to domestic productions. It also wants to change the funding rules for theaters in order to push back what it sees as director-driven theater that ignores its audience.
The AfD wants to fund films from the home region. Other films should get little money. It also wants new money rules for theaters. The party thinks some theater plays ignore what the audience wants.
Program for the 2022 Saarland state election
The CDU wants to give lasting support to Saarland's industrial heritage sites and the events held there. It also wants to conclude a preservation pact for culture with the municipalities so that cultural funding does not fall victim to budget cuts after the pandemic.
Saarland has many old industrial sites, such as the Völklingen Ironworks. The CDU wants to strengthen these places. They also host festivals and exhibitions. The CDU also wants a pact for culture with the towns. Culture should not be cut to save money.
The CDU wants to preserve the Saarland's major cultural institutions, including the State Theater with its three divisions. The Musikfestspiele Saar festival is to receive a fixed funding amount again. New cultural projects are also to get reliable conditions.
The CDU wants to keep the big cultural institutions in the Saarland. One of them is the State Theater. The Musikfestspiele Saar festival should get fixed funding again. New cultural projects should also be able to grow.
The CDU wants to build a new Saarlandhalle arena in Saarbrücken that is suitable for large events. The platform justifies this with competition in the Greater Region and with aging venues.
The CDU wants to build a new Saarlandhalle arena in Saarbrücken. Big events should take place there. The CDU says the old venues are too old. The Saarland should keep up with nearby regions.
The CDU wants to provide lasting support for club-based culture and cultural education, partly because of the effects of the pandemic. Funds for more professional structures are to be made permanent and relieve volunteers of administrative work. Offerings for young people are to grow.
The CDU wants to support culture in clubs. Cultural education should also get money. Volunteers should have less paperwork. There should be more offers for children and young people.
The CDU wants to preserve the Saarland's language, customs and traditions and to support local heritage museums and heritage associations for that purpose. In the platform's view, culture and Heimat (homeland) should shape the identity of people in the state.
The CDU wants to preserve language and traditions in the Saarland. Local heritage museums and clubs should get money and recognition. There should also be money for local celebrations.
The CDU wants private broadcasters to coexist with strong public broadcasting. The public broadcaster Saarländischer Rundfunk is to provide information on the state's own topics. The state media authority is to remain independent and be funded appropriately.
The CDU wants both private and public broadcasters. Saarländischer Rundfunk should report on the Saarland. The Saarland should keep its own media authority. This authority should get enough money.
The CDU wants to secure and increase funding for film and media, also with the help of federal and EU money. Movie theaters outside urban centers are to be preserved. The platform points to film festivals and to the Saarland as a filming location.
The CDU wants to give more money to film and media. Some of it should come from the federal government and the EU. Movie theaters in rural areas should stay. The film industry should be better connected.
Program for the 2022 Saarland state election
The SPD wants to set minimum fees and minimum performance pay in cultural funding to improve the income and social security of freelance artists. The independent scene is to get permanent workspaces and a production house, and culture is to become a mandatory municipal task.
Freelance artists should earn more. There should be minimum fees for this. The independent arts scene should get permanent spaces to work. Towns and cities should be required to offer culture.
The SPD wants everyone to be able to visit museums for free on certain days or at certain times. Museums are to be strengthened as places of cultural education and experience and be better networked.
On some days, museum admission should be free for everyone. For children and teenagers it is already free. The SPD wants to support museums with new exhibitions. Museums should work together more.
The SPD wants to keep the Saarland State Theater with its three divisions and give established festivals permanent financial security. The industrial heritage of coal and steel is to be preserved as a place of remembrance.
The State Theater should stay as it is. Well-known festivals should get money permanently. The SPD also wants to remember the era of coal and steel. Old mines and monuments should get funding.
The SPD wants to expand arts and cultural education in schools and daycare centers and keep existing programs running. Artists who work in schools are to receive higher fees.
The SPD wants more arts in schools. Programs that work well will stay. Artists who work in schools will get more money. Children will be encouraged to read from daycare on.