Matthias Meitzler

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Matthias Meitzler (born June 20, 1986 in Groß-Umstadt ) is a German sociologist .

He studied sociology , psychoanalysis and history at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and psychology at the Fern-Universität Hagen .

The book “Sociology of Transience” (Hamburg 2011) emerged from his sociological thesis. Meitzler has been involved in research projects on the social structure analysis of the Frankfurt train station district and on the change in burial culture ( Goethe University Frankfurt), on the mediatization of German forensics ( DFG project at the University of Duisburg-Essen ) and on the pluralization of the sepulchral ( University of Passau ). His work focuses on the sociology of knowledge , thanatosociology and qualitative social research . He currently teaches and researches at the University of Passau.

With his colleague Thorsten Benkel , Meitzler examines the various aspects of society's way of dealing with dying , death and mourning . Both operate the portal friedhofssoziologie.de and gained greater fame with their books on "unusual tombstones" published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch .

Publications (selection)

  • Sociology of Impermanence. Time, aging, death and remembering in a social context, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8300-5455-9
  • Please let me lie down. Unusual tombstones. A journey through today's cemeteries , Cologne 2014 (with Thorsten Benkel) (4th edition 2016), ISBN 978-3-462-04608-3
  • Game over. New unusual tombstones , Cologne 2016 (with Thorsten Benkel), ISBN 978-3-462-04905-3
  • Knowledge-sociological media impact research. On the mediation of the forensic field , Weinheim 2017 (with Jo Reichertz and Caroline Plewnia), ISBN 978-3-7799-3676-3
  • Between life and death. Social scientific border crossings , Wiesbaden 2018 (Ed. With Thorsten Benkel), ISBN 978-3-658-22277-2
  • The shine of life. Ash diamond and memorial body , Göttingen 2019 (with Thorsten Benkel and Thomas Klie), ISBN 978-3-525-61630-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ phil.uni-passau.de website of the University of Passau. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ n-tv.de website of ntv. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Meitzler, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Umstadt