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Steffen Hallaschka and Olivia Jones already have their coffins
A person’s final journey usually ends in a coffin. You can ponder the appearance and material for a long time. Olivia Jones and Steffen Hallaschka no longer have to worry about this.
Drag queen Olivia Jones (53) and “stern-TV” presenter Steffen Hallaschka (51) already know in which coffins they start their last journey after their death. “Basically, I already have my coffin. It turned out so well and I fit in there too,” said Jones of the German Press Agency in Hamburg. The Dragqueen, who was born in Lower Saxony, painted a wooden coffin in the new documentary series “Sterben für Beginners”, among other things, while Hallaschka built his own coffin.
At first he understood the idea of the coffins primarily as a strong image for the series, Hallaschka said. “But then I thought to myself: No, that’s great. I already have my coffin. I’ll put it upright in my room at home as a wine rack. And I have one less thing to worry about.” He doesn’t think it’s morbid at all. On the contrary: “It’s a mature thing to build your coffin at the age of 50.”
The serious and entertaining documentary series “Dying for Beginners” has been available on the RTL+ streaming service since Wednesday. In it, Jones and Hallaschka visit people who have something to do with death – whether undertakers, forensic pathologists, terminally ill or terminal attendants. The aim of the six-part documentary is to reduce fears of contact with the topics of death and dying.