In March 2001, Armin Meiwes posted an advert on the internet. He was looking for a “young, well-built man who wanted to be eaten”.
The 42-year-old computer engineer from Rotenburg, Germany, became known as Der Metzgermeister (the Master Butcher) in one of the most famous cases of cannibalism in history.
Now, a new documentary titledDocs: Interview with a Cannibal has been granted unique access to the man who became the first person in Germany to be charged with "murder for sexual satisfaction", or "love cannibalism".
It tells how Meiwes agreed to meet a man who responded to his advertisement, brought him to the farmhouse he owned, and eventually killed and ate him - filming much of it.
The footage of the act itself, which was shown in a closed room during the trial, is described in the documentary as "too disturbing to show", and so shocking that only 19 minutes of the four-hour video was shown.
In the documentary, Meiwes’s behaviour as a child is described as “like most other children his age – he loved animals and found country life idyllic”.
But Meiwes describes the traumatic experience - at the age of 5 - of watching his father abandoning his family, shortly followed by his two half-brothers; making him “the man of the house”.
Culled: The independent
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