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AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Overhaul Targets Bauhaus Identity Debate

By Drooid · Sep 18, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC · How we work

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AfD plans a cultural overhaul in Saxony-Anhalt, targeting arts and heritage.
The party’s platform promotes prewar German history, rejects multiculturalism, and seeks to end Germany’s “guilt complex”.
AfD co-author Hans-Thomas Tillschneider labeled the Bauhaus “non-German” and without national roots.
Arts groups and Bauhaus Foundation director Barbara Steiner warn the plan will reshape cultural mindsets.

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AfD plans a cultural overhaul in Saxony-Anhalt, targeting arts and heritage.
The party’s platform promotes prewar German history, rejects multiculturalism, and seeks to end Germany’s “guilt complex”.
AfD co-author Hans-Thomas Tillschneider labeled the Bauhaus “non-German” and without national roots.
Arts groups and Bauhaus Foundation director Barbara Steiner warn the plan will reshape cultural mindsets.