The Man Who Ate His Lover

Behold! If you do not wish to get your mind scarred or be haunted, please refrain from reading the below.

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I remember the first time I saw “Cannibal Holocaust” when I was young, it made my stomach sick and it gave me a headache and it got worse after a friend told me that it was a real documentary. But come to think of it, who on earth will allow a real snuff film to be released and screen all over the world. KNN , pull my leg. As I was listening and brooding on Marilyn Manson’s Eat Me, Drink Me, I read from somewhere that he gotten the album concept from a person named Armin Meiwes. Does that name ring any bells? Maybe if you live in Germany, it would. This isn’t some gruesome zombie or cannibal tall tale; this isn’t the fake as cake “Cannibal Holocaust” which I thought was real; forget about Dr. Hannibal, this is the real thing. It sent chills to my spine and made me sick to my entrails. I consider myself a pretty sick guy but for something to make a sick guy sick, that is pretty something. But at the same time I was amazed by the relationship that these two had. This is a grotesque relationship that I really can’t relate to. Some may find the story very compelling in a romantic way but I think a lot of people wouldn’t look at it as romantic, but sick.

To the family next door, Armin Meiwes seemed the perfect neighbor. He mown their lawn, repaired their car and even invited them round for dinner. Other residents in the small German town of Rotenburg also believe there was nothing odd about the 4o plus year old computer expert, whose light burned late into the night inside his creaking mansion. However, Meiwes appeared in court charged with killing, frying and eating another man.

The Invitation

The mild-mannered and well-groomed computer technician had fantasized about killing and devouring someone, including his classmates, from the age of eight. The desire grew stronger after the death of his mother in 1999. Meiwes had a childhood obsession with the Grimm Brother’s fairy tale “ Hansel and Gretal”, and was especially fascinated by the passage in which the storybook witch “fattened up little Hansel” in hopes of cooking and eating him. Meiwes posted an advertisement on the Internet, looking for a willing victim. The post stated that he was “looking for a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be slaughter and then consumed”. That was when a Berlin man he had met in a gay chat room took him up on his cyber-invitation to “let me gobble you up”. The man, Bernd-Juergen Brandes, himself a computer analyst with a Berlin information technologies company, was known for his interest in mutalition and his activity in the homosexual prostitution scene of his home city. Brandes wanted to be castrated and mutilated. He dreamt of being taken bodily into another man – being ingested – becoming one with another man. For both, it was as if some perverted fairy tale had come true.

The Feast

On the evening of March 9, the two men went up to the bedroom in Meiwes’ rambling timbered farmhouse. Meiwes amputated Brandes’ penis and the two men attempted to eat the penis together before Brandes was killed. Brandes had insisted that Meiwes attempt to bite his penis off. This did not work, so Meiwes used a knife. Brandes apparently tried to eat some of his own penis raw, could not because it was too tough and, as he put it, “chewy”. Meiwes then sautéed the penis in a pan with salt and pepper, and garlic, but by then it was too burned to consumed. Brandes may already have been too weakened from the blood loss to actually eat any of his penis. Armin Meiwes read a Star Trek book for 3 hours whilst his victim was bleeding to death in the bath. Meiwes apparently gave him large quantities of painkillers and half a bottle of schnapps and then killed him in a room that he built in his house for this purpose. After stabbing Brandes to death in the throat, he hung the body on a meat hook and tore hunks of flesh from it; he even tried to grind the bones to use as flour. The whole scene was recorded on videotape. The cannibal then chopped Brandes into pieces and put several bits of him in the freezer, next to the takeaway pizza, and buried the skull in his garden. Over the next few weeks, he defrosted and cooked parts of Brandes in olive oil and garlic, eventually consuming 20kg of human flesh. “ with every bite, my memory of him grew stronger,” he said. He had consumed his victim with a bottle of South African red wine, had got out his best cutlery and decorated his table with candles. He tasted of pork, he added.

Arrested

Meiwes was arrested in December 2002, posting new advertisement for victims and details about the killing on the Internet. Investigators searched his home and found body parts and the videotape of the killing. Meiwes was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. The case attracted considerable media attention and led to a debate over whether Meiwes could be convicted at all, given that Brandes had voluntarily and knowingly participate in the act; there were also complications as cannibalism itself was not illegal in Germany at the time. Later in April 2005, a German court ordered a retrial after prosecutors appealed his sentence. They believed he should be convicted of murder, not manslaughter, and given a life sentence. Later, Meiwes said his motive of killing and eating his victim, Brandes, was born from the desire for this younger brother he never had – “someone to be part of me”. In eating Brandes, he finally got his “big kick”, he told his trial. Brandes Spoke good English, he said, and since eating him, his English had improved. He also revealed he is now writing his memoirs.

For days, I didn’t touch any meat especially those cooked with garlic and olive oil. Damn you Meiwes!!! Now I am haunted by your horrid act of gobbling up another man’s fried penis every time I try to eat pork. Babi Betul!!!!!!

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