Monika Grütters German Minister of State for Culture
Monika Grütters, who chaired the German Bundestag's Committee on Culture and the Media during the last parliamentary term, will become Minister of State for Culture and the Media in the Federal Chancellery in the new cabinet.
Johanna Wanka remains Minister for Education and Research. She will continue to be responsible for major model projects in cultural education, writes the German Cultural Council. Dorothee Bär, who headed the Digital Agenda working group during the coalition negotiations on the CDU/CSU side, will become State Secretary for Digital Affairs. Maria Böhmer, previously Minister of State for Integration at the Federal Chancellery, will become Minister of State for Culture at the Federal Foreign Office.
There will be no actual Federal Ministry of Culture in the new federal government. A number of federal ministries and the Federal Chancellery will be responsible for cultural policy. In addition to the Federal Chancellery, cultural policy will be actively pursued over the next four years, particularly in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education, Economics, Labor and Justice.
