A liquid crystal photoalignment composition comprising: a) at least one polyimide and/or polyamic acid compound represented by the general Formula 1, comprising repeating structural units and/or and/or a repeating structural unit represented by the general Formula 2, comprising repeating structural units and/or where A is a tetravalent organic residue of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride, B is the divalent residue of a substituted or unsubstituted non-aromatic or aromatic diamine NH 2 -B-NH 2 without phenolic OH-groups, M is the divalent residue of a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic diamine NH 2 -M-NH 2 carrying at least two phenolic OH-groups, n and m are integers and the sum n+m has a value from 10 to 200, where m is greater than 0 and n is equal to 0 or greater than 0, under the proviso that at least 5 weight% of the aromatic diamine carrying phenolic OH groups NH 2 -M-NH 2 are present in 100 weight% of compound, b) at least one photoactive compound comprising photoalignment groups, c) a solvent or solvent mixture, d) optionally at least one additive, and the amount of compound is 50% - 99.5% by weight of the sum of weights of compound and compound; and wherein the aromatic diamines with additional phenolic OH groups, comprise 2 or 3 benzene rings in the molecular structure, where the phenolic OH groups are in para-position relative to the bridging group X and the amino groups are in ortho-position relative to the phenolic OH groups and are represented by the following formula: or: Y represents a hydrogen atom, C 1 - C 4 alkyl group, C 1 - C 4 alkoxy group, halogen. a) at least one polyimide and/or polyamic acid compound represented by the general Formula 1, comprising repeating structural units and/or and/or a repeating structural unit represented by the general Formula 2, comprising repeating structural units and/or where A is a tetravalent organic residue of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride, B is the divalent residue of a substituted or unsubstituted non-aromatic or aromatic diamine NH 2 -B-NH 2 without phenolic OH-groups, M is the divalent residue of a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic diamine NH 2 -M-NH 2 carrying at least two phenolic OH-groups, n and m are integers and the sum n+m has a value from 10 to 200, where m is greater than 0 and n is equal to 0 or greater than 0, under the proviso that at least 5 weight% of the aromatic diamine carrying phenolic OH groups NH 2 -M-NH 2 are present in 100 weight% of compound, A is a tetravalent organic residue of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride, B is the divalent residue of a substituted or unsubstituted non-aromatic or aromatic diamine NH 2 -B-NH 2 without phenolic OH-groups, M is the divalent residue of a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic diamine NH 2 -M-NH 2 carrying at least two phenolic OH-groups, n and m are integers and the sum n+m has a value from 10 to 200, where m is greater than 0 and n is equal to 0 or greater than 0, under the proviso that at least 5 weight% of the aromatic diamine carrying phenolic OH groups NH 2 -M-NH 2 are present in 100 weight% of compound, b) at least one photoactive compound comprising photoalignment groups, c) a solvent or solvent mixture, d) optionally at least one additive,