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The federal government’s cabinet draft for the 2026 federal budget, which was adopted on 30 July 2025, provides for EUR 2.5 billion to be made available to the Minister of State for Culture and Media. Alongside other measures to strengthen the cultural sector, EUR 250 million would be channelled into the Deutsche Filmförderfonds (German Federal Film Fund — DFFF) and the German Motion Picture Fund (GMPF), almost doubling their current funding levels. Film and media promotion in Germany is organised at many different levels (federal and state) and by various funds and players....

At the beginning of June 2025, the German state media authorities completed a procedure for the second time to determine which media content should be treated as “public value” offerings on media platforms’ user interfaces, i.e. which content must be easy to find. In addition to 73 nationwide video, audio and telemedia offerings, 247 local, regional and state-wide offerings were awarded public value status. With a total of 320 offerings, this is 49 more than in the first determination procedure, which, according to the media authorities, demonstrates the high relevance of the...

On 15 May 2025, the Landgericht Köln (Cologne Regional Court – LG Köln) ruled in the second instance (case 6 S 114/23) that price increases for monthly usage fees may not be made unilaterally by a provider, but require the customer’s express consent. In the case at hand, a user had sued the streaming service provider Netflix for imposing three subscription price increases and demanded a refund of the overpayments. Price increases in December 2017, June 2019 and May 2021 meant that the price of the premium subscription originally purchased for EUR 11.99 per month had risen...

On 3 June 2025, the Medienpädagogische Forschungsverbund Südwest (mpfs), a research body acting on behalf of the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württemberg state media authority), the Medienanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate state media authority) and Südwestrundfunk (SWR), published its 15th study on childhood, Internet and media (KIM Study 2024). In a parent-child survey conducted as part of the study, 1,225 children aged between 6 and 13 were asked about their own and their family’s media usage, leisure activities and interests....

On 28 April 2025, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media – KJM) published its 11th activity report, which documents a significant increase in the number of cases relating to the protection of children and young people from harmful content over the past two years. Hate, incitement and disinformation are described as the dominant themes, particularly in online media. Shortly afterwards, on 13 May 2025, the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia (voluntary self-monitoring body for multimedia service providers – FSM) also published...