Art, music, literature and music education are components of school education and fall under the responsibility of the Länder, which organise them differently in terms of scope and quality.
In the school year 2020/2021, 555 000 enrollments were made nationwide (for comparison, school year 2017/2018: 595 000 enrollments) in artistic subjects such as music, art, literature or similar in the qualification phases I and II of the gymnasiale Oberstufen at general education schools. In relation to the number of pupils, the indicator value for Germany was 1.0, meaning that on average every pupil took a course in an artistic subject. The values varied greatly between the federal states: from 0.6 to 1.6, which can also be explained by the different school regulations and laws in the individual states (See: Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder (2022): Kulturindikatoren kompakt, Wiesbaden).
Figures on the type and scope of artistic subjects in primary and secondary schools are published in the Education Report 2012 with the focus on “Cultural Education”. According to this report, the number of hours for compulsory artistic subjects in the Länder ranges between 12 and 24 hours per week, for lower secondary schools between 11 and 26 hours per week, at Realschulen between 13 and 22 hours per week and at Gymnasiums between 6 and 20 hours per week.
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