The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt has announced a ‘new patriotic cultural policy’ should it take power. The state’s cultural foundations … warn against a development that fundamentally calls into question the freedom of art, the openness of cultural institutions, and the democratically enshrined culture of remembrance.”
Thus begins a joint press release from the major state-funded cultural institutions of Saxony-Anhalt.
Saxony-Anhalt is the state in which the right-populist AfD is on course to win September’s election (it is currently polling at 38%, well ahead of all other parties, with a comfortable 13% lead over the incumbent conservative CDU).
