Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #866161 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 380 pages

From Publishers Weekly
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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About the Author
Interview With A Cannibal was translated into English from the best-selling German book written by German filmmaker and journalist GÃœNTER STAMPF, and edited by preeminent investigator and criminal profiler PAT BROWN, author of Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers (2003).

Customer Reviews

Fascinating and Socially Relevant
Interview with a Cannibal was not what I expected (which is a good thing). I borrowed it from a friend on vacation and couldn't stop reading it. I thought it would be just a sick kind of look at a deranged man but it was more than that. Stampf takes us on an investigation itno Armin's history and family life, the culture he grew up in, and the weird and frightening online world of men who are obsessed with cannibalism to the point of wanting to act out cannibalism in the real world. The book is not just for "fun" but really gets into why Meiwes becomes what he becomes and how no one around him saw it coming. All in all, well written and engaging.

Interview with a Cannibal
I thumbed through the book when I received it, and have since put in the closet behind some boxes so no one will know that I even have it. I may burn it or bury it, or better yet, give it to my Mother-in-law for Christmas. It is the most disgusting thing I have ever almost read. It has no historical, social, or moral value, and I am convinced that the only reason it has sold any copies is owing to it's stark notoriety and depravity - whatthehell, I bought it. Does this mean that I need to go to meetings or join an encounter group?