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Author Schulz, Felix Robin.

Title Death in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Felix Robin Schulz
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages)
Series Monographs in German History ; v. 35
Monographs in German history ; v. 35.
Contents The origins of modern German sepulchral culture -- After death : the organization of disposal -- Resting places? Cemeteries in the GDR -- Burning bodies : cremation in the GDR -- The communal burial of ashes : 'new' spaces for disposal -- Funerals in the GDR : a diversity of rituals
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Germany (East)
Death -- Social aspects -- Germany (East)
Sepulchral monuments -- Germany (East)
Cross-cultural studies.
Funeral Rites -- history
Cross-Cultural Comparison
History, 20th Century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Cross-cultural studies
Death -- Social aspects
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Sepulchral monuments
Bestattungsritus
Grabmal
Kultur
SUBJECT Germany, East
Subject Germany (East)
Deutschland DDR
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1782380140
9781782380146