For the Bundestag election on February 23, 2025, the German Cultural Council eleven demands on parties for the cultural policy of the 21st parliamentary term . As a top association of the Federal Culture Associations, the Cultural Council represents the different artistic sectors and the different areas of cultural life and is the cultural-political voice for 285 associations from the entire cultural and media sector.
With its eleven cultural policy demands on the Bundestag election, the German Cultural Council makes it clear: cultural policy is social policy .
With its demands, the German Cultural Council focuses on central and current topics of cultural policy:
01 State goal of culture in the Basic Law
The state goal of culture must finally be anchored in the Basic Law in the next parliamentary term.
02 improve labor and social law
Labor and social law has to be improved, i.e. concrete, to better include solo-relevant people in unemployment insurance, to introduce an obligation to provide retirement for solo staff, to keep artist social tax stable and to give people with disabilities better access to the labor market.
03 Tax law make more cultural -friendly
Tax law must be made more cultural -friendly, i.e. specifically, to anchor the sales tax exemption for educational services legally in tax law, to unify the existing sales tax reductions in the cultural sector, to implement the right to sell sales tax for cultural institutions, to double the mitigation rule according to § 50a EStG (gross remuneration agreement) per person per appearance at least To make the right of non -profit law.
04 Strengthen and ensure remuneration
This includes securing the proven system of device, storage media and operator remuneration for legally permitted reproductions and adapting it to digital forms of use.
05 create reliable framework conditions for artificial intelligence
In any case, it must be ensured that copyrights, performing artists as well as other right-wing owners receive adequate remuneration for the use of their works and services for AI purposes, especially in the case of commercial uses.
This must also be represented at European and international level.
06 think of culture and sustainability together
Culture and sustainability have to come together, i.e. concrete, to take up the impulses from the cultural and creative industries for sustainable management and to improve the resilience of the cultural business, especially with a view to protecting the cultural heritage.
According to the UNA-agenda 2030, the realization of gender equality in art and culture also includes sustainable cultural policy.
07 Live cohesion in diversity
"Living in diversity" is one of the eleven demands of the German Cultural Council for the Bundestag election 2025 Illustration serves and was created with the AI picture tool ImageFlash
Cultural integration has to be given even more attention, i.e. concretely to counteract anti -Semitism and racism as well as other forms of group -related misanthropy.
08 Cultural education secure
This UNESCO agreement must be implemented, i.e. specifically to present a state report on cultural education, to establish reliable structures that ensure qualified and continuous cultural education in daycare, school and support programs for cultural education.
09 Ensure cultural financing
Culture financing must be ensured, i.e. concrete, especially strengthening structures and consistently compensating for cost increases.
10 foreign cultural and education policy do not take care of
Foreign cultural and education policy must not be taken, i.e. concrete, the independence of the foreign cultural and education policy, including its actors, to give more space and to ensure their adequate financing.
11 Strengthening Federal Cultural Policy institutionally
In the next parliamentary term, the next step must take place and the position of commissioning the Federal Government for Culture and the media to be upgraded to a Federal Ministry.
The managing director of the German Cultural Council, Olaf Zimmermann, said literally:
Culture and cultural policy must play a central role in the upcoming legislative period. At a time when the division of society increases and anti -democratic forces gain influence, art and culture can create a counterweight, open discourse rooms and widen the horizon of own beliefs. In order for this to succeed, culture needs good framework conditions. We not only expect beautiful words from the future federal government, but tangible deeds. ”
The detailed demands of the German Cultural Council on the Bundestag election can be found here .
Owner and Managing Director of Kunstplaza. Journalist, editor, and passionate blogger in the field of art, design, and creativity since 2011. Successful completion of a degree in web design as part of a university study (2008). Further development of creativity techniques through courses in free drawing, expressive painting, and theatre/acting. Profound knowledge of the art market through years of journalistic research and numerous collaborations with actors/institutions from art and culture.
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