The Berlin Senate decides from time to time which of the city’s dead may and may not lie in graves of honor. Now he wants to remove the grave of the poet Oskar Loerke from the canon. This is outrageous, thinks author Lutz Seiler.
From time to time the Berlin Senate decides on the city’s graves of honor. This dignity is bestowed on the graves of deserving personalities five years after their death at the earliest and for an initial period of 20 years. The responsible district office then bears the costs of maintenance and grave care. On July 6, 2021, the Senate now has raised some dead to this honor, such as the musician Rio Reiser, who died in 1996, and the film critic Karsten Witte (1944-1995). The honorary graves were extended by Bert Brecht and the balloonist Käthe Paulus, among others. They no longer want to maintain the graves of some writers, including that of the poet and lecturer Oskar Loerke. The Senate decision on the submission of the Governing Mayor Michael Müller will next be submitted to the Mayor Council for comment. Lutz Seiler turns to them.