Germany/ 8.2 Cultural consumption and participation  

8.2.1 Trends and figures

Despite the continuously increasing number and variety of cultural and leisure-time activities since the 1970s - especially those made available by the culture and media industries - attendance and participation figures for public cultural institutions have continued to rise over the long term, though they have fluctuated widely and declined in some areas.

Table 4:     Visitors / users (in thousands), 1992, 1995, 1999, 2002 and 2006

Source:      Theatre attendance: Theaterstatistik des Deutschen Bühnenvereins (Theatre Statistics of the German Theatre Association), Cologne; Museums: Museumsbericht 2006, Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Berlin 2007; all others: Statistisches Jahrbuch für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany), Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden, edition for the given year.
*                 1996.

In 2000, the market share of the eleven public television broadcasting corporations (14 programmes) was 43.2 % and the market share for private (commercial) broadcasters was 56.8 %. The average viewer spent 190 minutes per day actually watching television and had the television set switched on for a total of 251 minutes. A breakdown of viewing habits by category yielded the following percentages for public versus private broadcasters respectively: information 84: 16; sports 23: 77; entertainment 58: 42; feature films (fiction) 32: 68, and advertising 2: 98.

There are no surveys monitoring the participation of national minority or immigration groups in general cultural life, but there are some specialised surveys, in particular on the use of media, such as newspapers, magazines, television use, broadcasting and videotapes. In general, normally, most migrants and Germans with a migrant background use media in both languages, in German and their native language - see for example the Jahrbuch für Kulturpolitik 2002/2003.