Tag: Death and grief
Uli Hoeneß gives an emotional speech for Franz Beckenbauer – Panorama
The speech was important to Uli Hoeneß. This was noticeable long before the speech. In the days between the news of his death and the memorial service in the Allianz…
Munich: The Vivas association brings together parents whose children have died – Munich
How do you move on when your child dies? There is an association in Munich where those affected can share their experiences. About a pain that never goes away and…
Munich: Restaurateur and mourner Stephan Alof about his heart attack – Munich
Formerly a restaurateur and nurse, now a funeral orator: Stephan Alof has accompanied hundreds of palliative care patients. How does someone like that deal with the fact that he suddenly…
Brain tumor: Filmmaker Max Kronawitter has written a book about it. – Bavaria
Max Kronawitter was a passionate filmmaker; he shot all over the world. Until a year ago, a malignant brain tumor completely changed his life. How he manages not to despair…
Interview with actress Michaela May – Munich
Other actors like to string together stories from the industry in their memoirs. Not Michaela May. She revealed her family’s unfathomable tragedy in her autobiography. After almost two years of…
New novel by Bernhard Schlink “Late Life”: What death teaches us – culture
In this novel, Bernhard Schlink varies the motif used by Michel de Montaigne in his first essay: To philosophize is to learn to die. The late sixteenth-century French philosopher was…
Exhibition at the Wöhrder Cemetery in Nuremberg: How gravediggers lived – Bavaria
Anyone who types the word gravedigger into Google will immediately find out who is supposedly one: “Lauterbach is the gravedigger of the healthcare system,” for example, which is of course…
All Saints Day: For a beer at Grandpa’s grave
Commemorating the dead is often sad in Bavaria. There are certainly suggestions from other countries. They could be changed wonderfully. source site
Munich: Currently the largest cemetery expansion in Germany in Riem – Munich
Munich’s growth can hardly be described in anything other than superlatives – and that doesn’t just apply to the living city residents: West of the trade fair city of Riem,…
Life shortly before death: "Dying is a terribly hopeless situation"
The sociologist Irmhild Saake researches what society understands by “dying well”. And realizes: In truth, it is rarely really good. But is that so bad? source site