Die / Der Beauftragte Der Bundesregierung Für Kultur Und Medien

Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) (Germany). Also known as the Minister of State for Culture (German: Kulturstaatsminister). Responsible for cultural and media policy in the Federal Republic of Germany, accompanied and monitored by the Committee for Culture and the Media in the German Bundestag. Since cultural policy in Germany falls under the jurisdiction of the states of Germany, there is no Ministry of Culture at the federal level in Germany. The primary tasks include continuously developing and improving the legal framework for the cultural and media sectors through federal legislation, promoting cultural institutions and projects of national importance, ensuring the cultural representation of the federal government in the federal capital Berlin, representing Germany's cultural and media policy interests in various international bodies, promoting nationally significant memorial sites commemorating the victims of Nazi Germany, and working with memorial sites and institutions to remember the injustices committed in the former GDR. Its responsibilities also include film promotion, the protection of cultural heritage, and leading the federal government's media policy (e.g., financing the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle).