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Deborah Cole in Berlin

‘It’s more about life than death’: the growing popularity of Berlin’s cemetery cafes

The exterior of a cafe with an old crematorium in the background
The Mars coffee house in Berlin is located in a decommissioned crematorium and looks out on a burial ground. Photograph: Christian Jungeblodt/The Guardian

They’re beautifully tucked away in some of the quietest, leafiest corners of central Berlin, and for their passionate patrons, they are a way of life among the dead.

The German capital has about a dozen cemetery cafes – not necessarily spaces for mourning, although they can be that, too – but mainly serving as islands of peace in busy districts.

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