German cannibal signs TV deal

iAfrica ^ | 03 Sep 2004

[yonif]

Already the subject of a hit rock song and a film script, Germany's convicted cannibal is now destined for the small screen as the star of a television documentary, its producer said on Friday.

Armin Meiwes, who was jailed in January for more than eight years for killing and eating the flesh of a willing victim, has signed over the media rights to his case to the Hamburg-based production firm Stampfwerk.

Managing director Guenter Stampf said the documentary would "come to terms with an unusual criminal case".

He added that a book deal was also in the works but would not be signed until Meiwes's appeal had run its course.

Stampf said he had negotiated for nine months with Meiwes and his attorney Harald Ermel before winning their agreement to give Stampfwerk "the exclusive rights to the journalistic treatment of the case".

He declined to say how much Meiwes would be paid.

"The financial aspects were not the decisive arguments," Stampf said, adding that Meiwes was more interested in the content of his portrayal.

Money earned intended to go to his legal defence

The money he earns is intended to go to his legal defence, Stampf said.

Meiwes's attorney insisted that he, as a public defender, would not earn any money from the deal and that his client would not become a rich man.

After he pays for the upkeep of his sprawling farm house where he killed, dissected and partially ate a Berlin engineer in March 2001, "there won't be much left", Ermel said.

Meiwes's case has horrified and fascinated Germans since it first came to light and attracted international attention.

Transvestite German director Rosa von Praunheim announced plans in July to make a feature film based on Meiwes and the modern history of cannibalism with the working title "Your Heart on My Mind".

And this summer, the hard rock band Rammstein immortalised Meiwes in a song called "Mein Teil", or My Part.

[Happygal]

He shouldn't get to keep ANY of the money.
I thought a criminal should not profit from his crimes.

Using the money to upkeep a mansion is profiting from the crime.

The odious individual should be swinging from the end of a rope, not signing movie deals.

[billorites]

Fourth Sailor	Well, that's settled then. Everyone eats me.
First Sailor	Well ... I ... er ...
Third Sailor	What, sir?
First Sailor	No, no, you go ahead, I won't ...
Fourth Sailor	Nonsense, nonsense, sir, you're starving. Tuck in!
First Sailor	No, no, it's not just that ...
Second Sailor	What's the matter with Johnson, sir?
First Sailor	Well, he's not kosher.
Third Sailor	That depends how we kill him, sir.
First Sailor	Yes, yes, I see that ... well to be quite frank, I like my meat a little more lean. I'd rather eat Hodges.
Second Sailor	(cheerfully) Oh well ... all right.
Third Sailor	No, I'd still prefer Johnson.
Fifth Sailor	I wish you'd all stop bickering and eat me.
Second Sailor	Look! I'll tell you what. Why don't those of us who want to, eat Johnson, then you, sir, can eat my leg and then we'll make a stock of the Captain and then after that we can eat the rest of Johnson cold for supper.
First Sailor	Good thinking, Hodges.

[Charles Henrickson]

[xJones]

Transvestite German director Rosa von Praunheim announced plans in July to make a feature film based on Meiwes and the modern history of cannibalism with the working title "Your Heart on My Mind".

This may become a cult classic. A German female transvetite named von Praunheim making a historical movie about cannaibalism! It has everything necessary if they throw in the black leather, whips, and a German Shephard.:)

[Charles Henrickson]

TV dinner.

[Charles Henrickson]

Armin Meiwes, who was jailed in January for more than eight years for killing and eating the flesh of a willing victim, has signed over the media rights to his case to the Hamburg-based production firm Stampfwerk.

Ich bin ein Hamburger.

[mikrofon]

where he killed, dissected and partially ate a Berlin engineer in March 2001, "there won't be much left", Ermel said.

Typically tidy German -- no leftovers...

[xJones]

TV dinner.

How can you jest?

"Angola" Ed Wood died before his time. If only he could have directed this in one of his lovely outfits and writing the script about modern cannibals......but, no, a German female transvestite gets the job and she can't even find a good name for the movie.

[martin_fierro]

Ich bin ein maneater.

[xJones]

Okay, it's "Angora" Ed Wood, nicknamed for his sweaters.

[Charles Henrickson]

"I'm as happy as a little schoolgirl!"

[weegee]

He won't be swinging from a rope, I think there is no death penalty in Germany. Additionally I think that he only got 7 years for his crimes.