ABSTRACT
In Germany, cultural education is covered by different political fields: youth, cultural and educational policies. Each of these policy fields has its own logic, its own rules and types of professionalism. In order to understand the relevance of youth and cultural policy for cultural education one should know that Germany traditionally has a half-day school system. This is changing just now because of the poor German results in the Programme for International Student Assessment of OECD (PISA). Against this background, it is understandable that extracurricular programmes are more important in Germany than in countries with boarding school programmes. Youth and cultural policies have the lead responsibility for such programmes. In order to offer a multitude of such extracurricular programmes and projects there is a wellorganised infrastructure for cultural education outside school.
