Death in East Germany, 1945-1990. Felix Robin S. Schulz<|

Death in East Germany, 1945-1990Author(s): Felix Robin Schulz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Berghahn Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Berghahn Books\nISBN-13: 9781782380139, 978-1782380139\nSynopsis\nAs the first historical study of East Germanys 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 Germanya society that not only had to negotiate the upheaval of military defeat but also urbanization, secularization, a com.