The establishment of a Ministry of Culture is a great opportunity
Cultural policy is a national matter, but in the Coalition negotiations between the Union and the SPD also discussed about culture and media. How much of this will ultimately be found in a coalition agreement is extremely uncertain, especially since this paper should be narrower than the previous one. But now the negotiators have the chance for a big throw: finally founding their own ministry.
Art and culture offer discourse areas about our coexistence in society
Because art and culture are not just amusement and representation, they are an important part of public life. And they are discourse rooms in which we have the opportunity to negotiate art with means of art we want to live and deal with each other. In which we can develop utopias and alternatives; in which we too The great social issues of migration And integration can take a different look than that of everyday life.
Receiving these rooms, yes, is so important, especially because there are increasingly forces that question them and try to influence a free culture. In state parliament and city councils with AfD participation If the inquiries are accumulated for allegedly woken cultural programs, memorials are exposed to right -wing extremists. In the United States, you can currently experience how the freedom of media and culture is cut. That is why it is now important to open a perspective for culture that makes the importance of this area for society and democracy visible and binding as an important part of public life.
In order to set the cultural mandate in the Basic Law, the consent of the Greens and the left is required
One of the opportunities to make this clear would be to be the culture as a state uprisingG into the Basic Law to record. This would upgrade their position as a voluntary service, which is funded depending on the cash register situation, in a fixed cultural mandate. In order to enforce this, however, the Greens and the left would have to be right with the government.
Another lever is the creation of its own ministry for culture. Gerhard Schröder directed 27 years ago The Ministry of Culture One that he settled in the Chancellery. The success in this construction very much from how the respective Minister of State worked with the Chancellor or the Chancellor, including whether they had the same party affiliation.
The country’s cultural infrastructure is also dilapidated
A Minister of Culture could face the colleagues in the cabinet at eye level and bring in more weight. It’s not just about a little of that Infrastructure package of the federal government to benefit, because the cultural institutions in the country are also more than dilapidated. Federal Culture Policy Also includes specifying with legal initiatives structures within which art can develop freely. There is a lot of catching up to do in this area to address the open questions of copyright, how to deal with artificial intelligence, but also labor law and tax issues. In a Ministry of Culture, cultural areas from other ministries such as cultural education, the creative industries or the Foreign cultural policy be bundled.
At the moment, however, rumors are circulating that the cultural sector may be assigned to the Interior Ministry – that is, more of a subordinate role than before in the Chancellery – a setback, not only against the cultural workers and the cultural life in our country, but also for our self -image as a society.
