TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schulz,Felix Robin
TI  - Death in East Germany, 1945-1990
T2  - Monographs in German History
SN  - 9781782380139
U1  - 393.0943/1 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Sepulchral monuments
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Germany
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History: 20th Century to Present
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures, Tables and Graphs --; Acknowledgements --; Glossary --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 The Origins of Modern German Sepulchral Culture --; Chapter 2 After Death The Organization of Disposal --; Chapter 3 Resting Places? Cemeteries in the GDR --; Chapter 4 Burning Bodies Cremation in the GDR --; Chapter 5 The Communal Burial of Ashes ‘New’ Spaces for Disposal --; Chapter 6 Funerals in the GDR A Diversity of Rituals --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - As the first historical study of East Germany‘s sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps taken towards a socialist cemetery culture such as issues of design, spatial layout, and commemorative practices; the propagation of cremation as a means of disposal; the wide-spread introduction of anonymous communal areas for the internment of urns; and the emergence of socialist and secular funeral rituals. The author analyses the manifold changes to the system of the disposal of the dead in East Germany—a society that not only had to negotiate the upheaval of military defeat but also urbanization, secularization, a communist regime, and a planned economy. Stressing a comparative approach, the book reveals surprising similarities to the development of Western countries but also highlights the intricate local variations within the GDR and sheds more light on the East German state and its society
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782380146?locatt=mode:legacy
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