Interview with a Cannibal: The Secret Life of the Monster of Rotenburg - Hardcover

Gunter Stampf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597775886 ISBN 13: 9781597775885

Publisher: Phoenix Books, 2008

Synopsis

If you saw him in the street, he wouldn't rate a second glance. Armin Meiwes looks ordinary, but he's not -- Meiwes is a cannibal. In March 2001, he killed a man and ate him with a glass of fine red wine. When a shocked worldwide public learned of this inconceivable crime, they had one simple question: Why? In Interview With A Cannibal, we begin to understand how two hitherto respectable and intelligent men, Armin Meiwes and Bernd Brandes, made an unwritten agreement in which one of them butchered the other, at his request, and consumed him piece by piece.

About this title

About the Author

Interview With A Cannibal was translated into English from the best-selling German book written by German filmmaker and journalist Gunter Stampf, and edited by preeminent investigator and criminal profiler Pat Brown, author of Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers (2003).

Reviews

Stampf, a prominent German filmmaker and journalist, reveals the harrowing true-life account of a German computer company employee, Armin Meiwes, who killed a willing victim, Bernd Brandes, and ate him in a fetish ritual. Interviewing Meiwes in 30 sessions at a high-security prison, the author discovers a shy, pleasant man who entered into an agreement with a bisexual man he met on the Internet who wanted to be butchered and consumed. Stampf probes Meiwes's emotional isolation and the homoerotic fantasies of both killer and victim through talks with family, friends and experts, entering some very dark places of gay underground sadomasochistic sex rituals. Prepared with the aid of criminal profiler Brown, this bizarre and gruesome book spares no detail of the crime and the troubled psyches of the cannibal and the victim. It is not for the faint of heart. (Nov.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenix Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597775886
• ISBN 13: 9781597775885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 362
• Editor: Pat Brown