Mourning

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A mourning message is a motto in an obituary notice or in a letter of condolence . Funeral sayings also recur on gravestones . Unlike an epigram , the mourning utterance can refer to the deceased, the relatives or in general to the human fate of death. Funeral sayings belong as proverbs of everyday culture and folk tradition. Like proverbs, they are widespread and are often taken from other obituaries, less often from collections of sayings.

Verdict

The Spruchgut includes quotations from the holy writings of the five major world religions (e.g. the Bible , Koran ), sentences from philosophy, sayings from church fathers, hymn poets and theologians, poetry and prose from German and international poetry and proverbs. There is also a confusing number of different reliable collections, concordances and registers.

Saying selection

The following applies to the selection of sayings from a reliable collection: The text reproduction should be correct, as well as the information on the author and the work. Decisive for the selection is the orientation of the obituary, whether the accent is on dying or on mourning or whether it merely announces death.

history

The origin of the mourning spell indicates, on the one hand, the way in which the educated middle class of the 19th century cited, in which the “winged words […] have become all-valid”, and, on the other hand, the maintenance of oral proverbs and sayings. The origin lies in the exemplary character of biblical sayings in the solemn baptism, communion, confirmation, marriage and burial of the churches. The transition of the obituary from the "running text of the journals" to the "business-like box advertisements" of the newspapers may have been responsible for the emergence of the sayings on the obituaries. Initially, these obituaries are capable displays have been that have been decorated with mottos and symbols. Even today, the selection of slogans on the obituaries of high-ranking personalities in the major national daily newspapers differs from the obituaries in small town and rural regions.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Dirschauer : Analysis of private obituaries in a Bremen daily newspaper . In: Death hushed up. Theological aspects of church burial , Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1973, pp. 22–41.
  2. ↑ Georg Büchmann : Winged words. The treasure trove of quotations from the German people. Collected and explained by Georg Büchmann. Continued after the author's death by Walter Robert-Tornow. 16th improved and increased edition. Haude- and Spener'sche Buchhandlung (F. Weidling), 1889, p. XI.

literature

  • Klaus Dirschauer : Just wait, you'll soon be resting too ... Literature quotes on obituaries . In: funeral culture . The magazine of the Federal Association of German Undertakers. 65. Vol. 1/2014, pp. 16-18.
  • Klaus Dirschauer : Words about grief. 500 selected wisdoms and quotes for obituaries and letters of condolence. 5th edition, Claudius Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-532-62319-0 .
  • Duden editorial team: Quotes and sayings. Origin and current use. Vol. 12, 3rd edition. Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-411-04123-7 .
  • Funeral. Agende for the Union of Evangelical Churches in the EKD. Vol. 5, Luther Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7858-0495-4 , pp. 350-416.
  • Grave inscriptions just in case , collected by Enno Hansing, vol. 1. Here are my bones, I want them to be yours. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-927485-11-X .
  • Grave inscriptions just in case , collected by Enno Hansing, Vol. 2. The world is utterly rotten - I died of a gingerbread. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-927485-16-0 .
  • Karl Simrock : The German Proverbs. Reclam, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-15-028453-8 .

Web links

  • Bielefeld University: Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. Students of Mr. apl. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seelbach: Funeral sayings