No way super Christian Protestant FW would have made a mockery of a funeral like that
To be honest, my thoughts took a similar direction - not as emphatically of course, but I did wonder how FW reconciled such a mockery of a funeral with his faith, going against all the preachers to boot. Schubert's report is just depressing in the relentlessness it depicts; or as you so chillingly put it: the "systematic destruction of a human being" until his last breath (and even after).
But hey, I had no idea Gundling was buried in Bornstedt! I've visited both the church and the graveyard and remember Lenné's grave for example, but not Grundling's. ... aha, googling tells me he was actually buried inside the church and I definitely missed the plate that was initially put over his grave and is now mounted on a wall.
And I see that Manger was buried there as well (outside), as was De Catt (whose grave doesn't exist anymore, so there's only a commemorative plaque).
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Re: Book Review II: Der König und sein Narr (Novel and Film)
Date: 2021-03-17 12:55 pm (UTC)To be honest, my thoughts took a similar direction - not as emphatically of course, but I did wonder how FW reconciled such a mockery of a funeral with his faith, going against all the preachers to boot. Schubert's report is just depressing in the relentlessness it depicts; or as you so chillingly put it: the "systematic destruction of a human being" until his last breath (and even after).
But hey, I had no idea Gundling was buried in Bornstedt! I've visited both the church and the graveyard and remember Lenné's grave for example, but not Grundling's. ... aha, googling tells me he was actually buried inside the church and I definitely missed the plate that was initially put over his grave and is now mounted on a wall.
And I see that Manger was buried there as well (outside), as was De Catt (whose grave doesn't exist anymore, so there's only a commemorative plaque).