Peter Dermühl has written a cultural history of death in Bavaria and finds From what is thought of the Church, to Drama and horror scenarios, could even learn Hollywood Directors.
Interview of Gerhard Fischer
Why was the messenger of the little owl is a feared death? And why was even the chickens in the barn, that the farmer died? Peter Dermühl, 72, answered these questions in his book “Sepp, now’s the dahi. A small Bavarian cultural history of death.” It’s just a old Bavaria – upper Bavaria, lower Bavaria and the upper Palatinate. Dermühl grew up in Munich and was editor in chief in various Newspapers. Later, he lived as a documentary filmmaker and book author in lower Bavaria, before he in 2011, according to lower Saxony …
