What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on culture and media?

The CDU wants to anchor the regional and minority languages more firmly in daycare centers, schools, universities and the media. To do so, it plans to implement and further develop the state's language policy action plan.

People in the state also speak Low German, Frisian and Danish. The CDU wants to strengthen these languages. Children should be able to learn them in daycare and school. There should be more teaching material. The languages should also appear more often in the media.

The CDU wants to conclude a culture pact with the municipalities and raise public spending on culture to the average of Germany's larger territorial states by 2030. A matching fund is to add one euro from the state for every additional euro municipalities spend on culture.

The CDU wants to spend more money on culture. The state and the towns should do this together. By 2030 the state should spend as much as other large states do on average. If a town spends one more euro, the state adds one euro.

The CDU wants to help artists and cultural institutions go digital and build a digital House of State History. State history would then be accessible from anywhere and, in the party's view, strengthen cohesion and understanding of democracy.

The CDU wants to bring more culture online. Museums should get help with digital exhibitions. There should be a digital House of State History. Anyone can explore the state's history there online. Later, real places across the state will be added.

The CDU wants to renovate stages, halls and theaters in cities and rural areas and keep supporting cinemas, museums and memorial sites. Fairs, folk festivals and country inns are also to be preserved as part of the cultural landscape.

The CDU wants to repair theaters, concert halls and stages. Cinemas should also get help. Museums and memorial sites should keep developing. There should be a fixed place to remember Germany's division. The CDU also wants to keep folk festivals and country inns.

The CDU wants to preserve and renovate major venues in the state, including Lübeck's Musik- und Kongresshalle (MUK) and the concert hall in Kiel Castle. Theaters are to get state help with investments, and independent theaters are to receive multi-year funding.

The CDU wants to keep theaters and concert halls in the state. Old buildings are to be repaired. This includes the music hall in Lübeck and the concert hall in Kiel Castle. Small independent theaters are to get money too.

The CDU wants to introduce a law on funding music schools and expand music schools in every county. In the party's view, children should be introduced to music from an early age.

The CDU wants a law for music schools. The law is meant to support them. There should be more music schools all over the state. Children should get to know music early.

The CDU wants to keep modernizing the state museums and make the state's memorial sites more professional. A site commemorating the division of Germany is to be established in Lübeck-Schlutup.

The CDU wants to modernize the state museums. Memorial sites should be able to work better. A new site is planned in Lübeck-Schlutup. It will remember the time when Germany was divided.

The CDU wants to develop libraries into meeting places and permanently secure the Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) as places for lifelong learning. Cultural institutions are to become more accessible.

The CDU wants to turn libraries into meeting places. People should meet and talk there. Adult education centers should stay for good. Cultural venues should be easy for everyone to use.

The CDU wants to protect historic monuments while keeping them usable. Authorities are to decide consistently across the state, and in the party's view requirements should not block investment. Owners are to get better review options and earlier notice.

The CDU wants to protect old buildings. But people should still be able to use them. Offices across the state should decide the same way. Owners should learn early when their house is listed. Rules should not make investing impossible.

The CDU backs strong public broadcasting focused on information, education, culture and advice. The broadcasting fee is to be set through an index model in the future; students, trainees and people doing voluntary service would no longer pay it.

The CDU wants strong public broadcasting. It should mainly inform and educate. The broadcasting fee should follow an index. That means it is tied to a fixed measure. Students, trainees and volunteers should pay nothing.

The CDU wants to preserve a diverse regional media landscape and will examine new forms of support for the press. It also wants to promote media literacy, advance digital radio and build up the state as a film location.

The CDU wants to keep many different media in the state. Regional newspapers should be able to get help. People should learn to judge media content well. Radio should go digital. More films should be made in the state.

The FDP wants cultural development planning and an expert commission to support the restart of cultural life after the pandemic and make the various arts sectors more crisis-proof. Public arts funding should be predictable and also open to small cultural businesses and solo self-employed people.

The FDP wants a plan for culture in the state. Experts should help culture get going again after Covid. The state should keep funding culture. Small businesses and single artists should also be able to get funding.

The FDP wants targeted support for specific cultural institutions, including music schools, libraries, cinemas, and the state's arts universities. Cultural and media education and access to cultural institutions are to be treated as part of basic public services.

The FDP wants to support music schools, libraries, and cinemas. Libraries should become more digital. There should be a special program for cinemas. People who volunteer in culture should also get support.

The FDP wants to convey the memory of the injustices of National Socialism and of East Germany through new forms, including digital ones, and give memorial sites more money. Jewish life in the state is to be protected and supported, and antisemitism firmly opposed.

The FDP wants people to remember history. Memorial sites should get more money. They should also offer digital formats. Jewish life should be protected. The FDP wants to act against hatred of Jews.

The FDP wants more money for research into the origins of cultural objects, especially items from the colonial era. Looted artworks are to continue to be returned. In heritage protection, owners are to get more transparency and fair conditions.

The FDP wants to check where art in museums comes from. There should be more money for this. Stolen art should go back to its owners. Museums should also deal with the colonial era. That is the time when Germany ruled other countries.

The FDP wants public broadcasting to focus on culture, education and information and wants a noticeable cut in the broadcasting fee. It does not count expensive formats that private broadcasters could also offer among its core tasks. Online, public broadcasters should not compete with private media on terms the party sees as unfair.

The FDP wants smaller public broadcasting. It should mainly offer culture, education and news. The broadcasting fee should go down. School students, university students and trainees should pay nothing. Online, it should not hurt private media.

The Greens want to provide more money for culture and secure cultural offerings for the long term. A cultural development plan is to be drawn up, and cultural policy would focus more on cultural diversity.

The Greens want to give more money to culture. Cultural offers should stay safe. The state should make a plan for culture. Juries and committees should include many different kinds of people.

The Greens want to fund socio-cultural centers on a permanent basis rather than only through projects. The investment program for the independent arts scene is to be extended and broadened.

Socio-cultural centers are local meeting places for culture. The Greens want to give them steady money. Independent theaters and small cinemas should also keep getting money. The program for this should grow.

The Greens want to make culture part of the state's economic strategy so the sector gains access to business and start-up support. Cultural education is to get more room from daycare through school.

Culture also brings money and jobs to the state. So people in culture should be able to get business support. Children should experience more culture in daycare and school. The social insurance fund for artists should stay.

The Greens want to secure cooperation between music schools and general schools by law. A pop culture office is meant to keep professional musicians in the state.

Music schools should work together with regular schools. A new law should secure this. There should also be an office for pop culture. Musicians can get advice and help there.

The Greens want to reduce the repair backlog at theaters together with municipalities and expand film funding. Owner-run cinemas are to be kept as cultural venues.

Many theaters need repairs. The state should help with money. There should also be more money for films. Small cinemas should stay, especially in rural areas.

The Greens want to develop libraries into places for meeting and learning. They plan statewide investment in digitization and buildings, plus a funding program for digitizing cultural heritage.

Libraries should be more than places to borrow books. People should meet and learn there. The state should pay for new technology and for the buildings. Old cultural treasures should be saved in digital form.

The Greens want to make art more visible in public spaces. The federal guideline "Kunst am Bau" (art in public buildings) is to continue, and a state guideline for art in public space is to be relaunched.

The Greens want more art in public places. For public buildings, part of the money should go to art. Artist houses should keep getting money. Artists' works should be recorded in databases.

The Greens want to develop the state's memorial site plan further and put memorials on a more professional footing. Besides the Nazi era, far-right violence after 1945 and the state's colonial past are also to be examined.

Memorial sites remind people of crimes in the past. The Greens want to support these places better. There should also be places for victims of far-right violence. The state should study its role in colonialism. Old monuments should be preserved.

The Greens want to strengthen media diversity in the state, support independent outlets and expand public broadcasting in the digital sphere as well. The media authority for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein is to be strengthened in overseeing large tech companies.

Most newspapers in the state belong to just two publishers. The Greens want more different media. They want to support independent radio and open channels. The broadcaster NDR should become more diverse and offer more online.

The SPD wants every child in Schleswig-Holstein to be able to learn a musical instrument. To that end, music schools are to receive more state funding. The platform argues that music supports development and bridges differences of language and culture.

Every child should be able to learn an instrument. That is what the SPD wants. Music schools should get more money for this. The SPD says music is good for children's development.

The SPD wants to make the state's regional and minority languages more visible in public spaces. It intends to build on the language policy of the former "coastal coalition" and says fee-funded broadcasters also have a duty here.

People in Schleswig-Holstein speak several languages, such as Frisian and Danish. The SPD wants these languages to be seen and heard more often. Radio and TV should help too. This means the stations paid for by the broadcasting fee.

The SPD wants to put the state's cultural funding on a statutory footing with a dedicated law, raising the standing of arts and culture. Funding is also to become more transparent through regular reports.

The state spends money on arts and culture. The SPD wants a special law for this. The law should make culture more important. The state should also report regularly on where the money goes.

The SPD opposes the state and municipalities balancing their budgets by cutting culture spending and wants to secure this through rules in the budget codes. At the same time, socio-cultural centers, public art and the digitalization of culture are to receive more support.

The SPD does not want cuts to culture. The state and towns should not fix their budgets this way. There should be firm rules for this. Culture centers should get more security. Art in public places should get more money too.

The SPD wants to preserve and expand theater offerings in Schleswig-Holstein, including in rural areas. Funding for public theaters is to rise automatically with collectively agreed staff costs.

The SPD wants to keep the theaters in the state. There should be more theater, also in the countryside. Theaters should get more money when wages go up. The same should apply to public libraries.

The SPD wants to improve social protection for artists and workers in the creative industries and plans to launch an industry dialogue for this purpose. Pop culture is to receive public funding, and the state government is to get a single point of contact for the creative industries.

Many artists have poor social protection. They often lack pension or health insurance. The SPD wants to change that. It wants to talk with the industry about it. Pop culture should also get public money.

The SPD wants to preserve and further develop public broadcasting while also promoting local media diversity. The platform counts access to free, independent media as part of essential public services.

The SPD wants to keep public TV and radio. These stations should keep developing. Small local media should get help too. This includes community radio and local stations. Everyone should get good information.

The SPD wants to fund and secure remembrance culture in the state and strengthen the work of memorial sites statewide. Civic education is to be firmly anchored in all types of schools and at all grade levels.

The SPD wants people to remember history. There should be more money for this. Memorial sites should be strengthened too. All schools should teach about politics. This way young people learn why democracy matters.

The SSW wants Danish and Frisian to appear more often in the media and sees the public broadcaster NDR as especially responsible. The minorities are to get a seat on the NDR broadcasting council. Geoblocking is also to end in areas where minorities live.

The SSW wants more Danish and Frisian on radio and TV. The broadcaster NDR should take care of this. The minorities should have a say on the NDR council. Programs from the neighboring country should be available without a block.

The SSW wants to give the organizations and institutions of the Frisian ethnic group more money on a lasting basis. Work on language and culture, so far done mostly by volunteers, is to become more professional. The federal government is to keep contributing to the new Frisian foundation.

The SSW wants more money for Frisian clubs and institutions. Today many people there work without pay. In the future there should be more paid experts. The federal government should keep helping to pay for the Frisian foundation.

The SSW wants to make more use of the state's experience in minority policy. The Flensburg network for minority issues is to become more visible, and minority policy is also to serve tourism. Schools are to teach more about the minorities.

In Schleswig-Holstein several minorities live well alongside the majority. The SSW wants to make this experience better known. Important offices on this topic work in Flensburg. They should be strengthened. Students should learn more about the minorities.

The SSW sees culture as a task for Europe as a whole and calls for a comprehensive European cultural initiative. EU cultural funding should rise substantially, and the federal government should support cross-border cultural work. The party points to Europe's diversity of regions, minorities and languages.

The SSW wants more cultural policy in Europe. The EU should give much more money for culture. The federal government should support cultural projects across borders. The party says culture connects people and strengthens peace.

The SSW sees culture as a core task of the community and wants to give cultural institutions lasting security and more funding. As many people as possible should have access to culture, especially in rural areas and the German-Danish border region.

The SSW wants to spend more money on culture. Theaters, museums and music schools should be able to plan safely. Everyone should be able to afford culture. Rural areas should have cultural offerings too. Cultural work with Denmark should grow.

The SSW wants to bring self-employed artists and cultural workers more fully into unemployment and pension insurance. Minimum wage compliance in publicly funded productions should be closely monitored, and funding bodies should have gender parity.

Many artists are self-employed. The SSW wants to protect them better when they have no work. They should also be better insured for retirement. Funded projects must pay the minimum wage. Funding boards should have equal numbers of women and men.

The SSW wants borrowing at all libraries in the state to be free of charge, following the Scandinavian model. Libraries are to be developed into community and cultural centers and given more funding.

The SSW wants borrowing books to be free in all libraries. That is how it works in Scandinavia. Libraries should become meeting places for people and clubs. They should get more money.

The SSW wants more support for children's and youth theater, independent theaters and museums. The state should take on more responsibility for its UNESCO World Heritage sites and add staff at the state office for monument preservation.

The SSW wants to strengthen theater for children and young people. Local museums should get more money. The state should pay more for its World Heritage sites. The office that protects historic buildings should get more staff.

The SSW wants to develop the state's memorial site strategy further and expand memorials as central places of remembrance. Memory of the crimes of National Socialism is to be kept alive and conveyed through new forms of educational work.

Memorial sites remind people of the crimes of the Nazi era. The SSW wants to expand these places. Young people and immigrants should learn more about this history. The years after 1945 should also be studied.

The SSW wants to continue and expand efforts to come to terms with colonialism in the state's history. Because Schleswig-Holstein is affected by both German and Danish colonial history, this is to be done together with Denmark.

The SSW wants to look more closely at the colonial history of Schleswig-Holstein. Colonial history means: European countries once ruled over other countries. Schools should teach this topic. Germany and Denmark should work on it together.

The SSW wants to develop and promote guiding principles for building culture that respect the character of towns and villages. The state is to support municipalities financially in doing so.

The SSW wants towns and villages to keep their typical look. The state should give municipalities money for advice from architects. Empty lots in cities should become nicer places. There should be funding for that.