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Artikkelen tar for seg suicidratene i det tidligere DDR (Tyske demokratiske republikk) i perioden staten eksisterte (1949– 90), og drofter mulige forklaringsmodeller pa at ratene la pa europeisk toppniva. Dernest tematiseres hvordan suicid ble forstatt, ideologisk og forskningsmessig, i en statsdannelse basert pa marxistisk tenkning. En kjent kasuistikk (pastor Oskar Brusewitz) presenteres. Et overordnet siktemal for artikkelen er a anskueliggjore at suicidrater ikke bare er en stringent medisinsk variabel, men lett tillegges en politisk betydning som ”indikator pa samfunnets patologi”. De hoye ratene i DDR var apenbart kontraere til regimets onske om at DDR skulle fremsta som en monsterstat. Den okende hemmeligholdelsen av suicidrater pa 1960- og 70- tallet illustrerer dette. Artikkelen nevner ogsa eksempler fra Skandinavia pa at suicidrater er blitt tillagt en politisk betydning. Avslutningsvis diskuteres hvorvidt det kan vaere berettiget a se suicidrater som en indikator pa et funksjonelt eller dysfunksjonelt politisk system. This article deals with suicide rates in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic) during the decades this state was existent (1949–90), and presents possible explanations to the fact that these rates were among the highest in Europe. Next, the article discusses how the phenomenon of suicide was evaluated, ideologically and according to research, within a state based on Marxist philosophy. A well-known case (the Rev. Oskar Brusewitz) is mentioned. Extensively, the article aims to illustrate that suicide rates are not only a restricted medical variable. A political significance (“indicator of social pathology”) is easily attributed. It seems obvious that high suicide rates were contrary to the official project of presenting GDR as a model state. This is further supported by the fact that suicide rates were increasingly classified by the regime during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. In addition, the article exemplifies that a political significance has been attributed even to Scandinavian suicide rates. In the concluding remarks, the author discusses whether it might be justified to consider suicide rates an indicator of the function (or dysfunction) of a political system.

“Indikator på samfunnets patologi”. Om DDR og suicidraters politiske betydning