Over the past year, more than 1,000 gravestones in a Munich cemetery have been adorned with white QR code stickers, perplexing cemetery management. Bernd Hoerauf, responsible for the city's cemeteries, expressed his bewilderment over the stickers, questioning their purpose. Although QR codes have been employed for over a decade as part of memorials to access online tributes and images, they are typically incorporated into the memorials themselves, contrary to the temporary nature of these stickers, which have surfaced without any clear explanation.
In what can only be described as a peculiar twist in memorial practices, a series of mysterious white QR code stickers have begun appearing on gravestones in Munich, causing intrigue among cemetery officials.
Bernd Hoerauf pointed out the unusual nature of these stickers: "We thought, What could be the sense of this kind of sticker?" This highlights the confusion regarding their purpose.
Though QR codes have been integrated into memorials for over a decade, they are generally intended as permanent fixtures, contrasting starkly with these transient stickers lodged on hundreds of gravestones.
The phenomenon raises questions not only about memorialization processes but also about the interaction between technology and remembrance in public spaces, as these stickers mark graves like commodities.
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