The budget of Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth will increase by ten percent this year to 2.14 billion euros.
The Federal Cabinet decided on Wednesday.
The additional funds flow into measures against right-wing extremism, into climate protection and into the cultural and creative industries.
The federal government provides 6.5 million euros annually for dealing with German colonialism and for the "Global South" program provided for in the coalition agreement.
In addition, the Berliner Festspiele, the House of World Cultures, the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Deutsche Welle and the Jewish Museum Berlin will receive more financial support.
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will receive 14.9 million euros in special funds for the preservation of its properties.
The federal government is also spending more money on the film industry.
Production funding for feature films and series will be increased by EUR 25 million, and the German Motion Picture Fund (GMPF) will have EUR 50 million a year in the future.
If further funds from economic film funding are requested by the industry in the course of this year, the Minister of State for Culture wants to "react flexibly" in coordination with the Federal Minister of Finance.
With the budget increase, the federal government has strengthened the ability of its department to act for democracy, explained Claudia Roth.
"In this way we will promote freedom and diversity, sustainability and participation in culture and the media." Their solidarity applies "to those people in culture and the media who have been affected by wars and crises and are oppressed by unjust regimes".