Also, Meiwes video-taped both Brandes whilst alive and later, after his death. Brandes had drawn up a will and testament, where his money and estate would go to his live-in partner. Meiwes “let them” leave and was not impressed with another, who he found sexually unappealing.Īfter finally meeting Brandes, they started up the ritual that would lead to Brandes’ death and devouring. Four candidates travelled to Meiwes’ house, but eventually were told the seriousness of the description. The other potential candidates thought that “being gobbled up” was a metaphor concerning sexual-actions. Brandes was a year older than his killer, but this didn’t seem to faze Meiwes who held auditions for the position. Meiwes had advertised on online chat-rooms, without euphemism or innuendo, his seeking a “young well-built man, who wanted to be eaten”. In March 2001, Meiwes killed and ate a willing, consenting man, Bernd Brandes. I say this because I think we need clarity in the case of infamous German cannibal, Armin Meiwes. If she does not wish to die, but still has her life taken away – violently or not is beside the point – then she was murdered. How we assess this is also another matter, but for humans we can infer in most instances whether or not someone willingly wants to die.
‘Murder’ falls within the category of ‘killing’, in that the organism in question is killed but did not want to be killed. It is another matter whether it is all or certain forms of organic life we are concerned with. Surprising as it may seem, it is most helpful for discussions on killing if we recognise that the word itself is mostly and simply ‘the taking of organic life’. He was originally convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 2004.īut another court found him guilty of murder in a retrial in 2006 and jailed him for life.‘Murder’ differs from ‘killing’ – and must differ for the words to have their moral impact – because killing is a neutral term.
In a case that captured headlines in Germany and abroad for months, Meiwes told investigators Brandes had begged to be killed and eaten to satisfy an ultimate kick both of them sought. Its detailed verdict was not yet available. The federal tribunal threw out the ruling of a lower court banning the thriller from being shown here. Its title is a variation of Rotenburg, the small west German town where Meiwes lived when he met his volunteer, Bernd Juergen Brandes, who contacted him responding to an online advertisement looking for a slaughter victim.
ARMIN MEIWES VIDEO COURT MOVIE
Rohtenburg, as the movie was called, was released in the United States in 2006 and advertised as Inspired By the True Story That Shocked A Nation. He had tried to block the American movie. The Federal Court of Justice ruled against Armin Meiwes, serving a life term for killing, mutilating and eating the flesh of a lover in his rambling farmhouse in March 2001.
KARLSRUHE A US film inspired by the case of a German cannibal who killed and ate a willing victim he met on the Internet can be released in Germany, a court said Tuesday. A picture taken on shows self-confessed German cannibal Armin Meiwes waiting for the beginning of a session of his re-trial in Frankfurt, Germany.