We now resume our tour at the point where we left off at Ludwig David's grave. Coming from his gravesite, we cross the Via Crucis, climb some rough steps toward Graveyard 8C, and immediately stand before a towering gray marble cross. It marks the final resting place of the composer Claus-Gerhard Clauberg. He was born on April 12, 1890, in Schwerin. His life came to its completion on March 15, 1963, also here.

However, Clauberg spent his most productive years in Berlin. There, starting in 1912, he made a name for himself as a music educator and accompanist. He worked for various progressive cabarets and even founded and directed the Workers' Cabaret "Die Wespen" (The Wasps). As a skilled pianist, he provided sophisticated entertainment at Café Größenwahn for a while. In the early 1920s, he worked with Claire Waldoff. For her, he composed and set to music texts by Weinert, Schmock, Kästner, and others, and accompanied her on tours for a long time, celebrating triumphs together. One of their hit songs was "Mutterns Hände" (Mother's Hands), based on a text by Tucholsky. In total, Clauberg wrote around 60 chansons for Waldoff. What Heinrich Zille conveyed with brush and palette about the Berlin milieu, the Waldoff-Clauberg duo supplemented with singing and music. For both of them, the couplet "Hermann heeßt er" (His Name Is Hermann) was a towering success, but it also brought them a total performance ban in 1936. Originally, this couplet had no political intentions. They had simply looked at what the people were talking about, and Waldoff had charmingly and boldly presented it in Berlin dialect. Clauberg provided lively accompaniment and encouraged the audience to thunderous applause. But when the sharp and critical vernacular added another verse to the couplet about the Nazi leader Göring, the brown rulers had enough. "On the right, tinsel, on the left, tinsel, and the belly keeps getting fatter. In Prussia, we have the master Hermann Heester." Claire Waldoff withdrew bitterly to Bayerisch Gmain near Bad Reichenhall after World War II, where she passed away on January 22, 1957. Claus Clauberg returned to Schwerin in 1949 and became chairman of the Art Union, worked as a music critic, and founded music schools in Wittenberge and Perleberg. Additionally, he continued composing as a freelancer. A significant part of his estate is kept in the music collection of the Mecklenburg State Library in Schwerin. It is, however, accessible to interested parties at any time. Claus Clauberg's gravestone bears the inscription: "He who lives in the memory of his loved ones is not dead. He is only far away. Only those are truly dead who are forgotten."