48-518: Armin Meiwes ( German: [ˈmaɪvəs] ; born 1 December 1961) is a German former computer repair technician who received international attention for murdering and eating a voluntary victim in 2001, whom he had found via the Internet. After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victim's severed penis, Meiwes murdered his victim and proceeded to eat a large amount of his flesh. He
96-493: A 43-year-old bisexual engineer from Berlin , answered the advertisement in March 2001. Many other people responded to the advertisement but backed out; Meiwes did not attempt to force them to do anything against their will. The two made a videotape when they met on 9 March 2001 in Meiwes's home, in the small town of Wüstefeld, west of Rotenburg an der Fulda . The video shows Meiwes amputating Brandes's penis (with his agreement) and
144-452: A German newspaper, Meiwes admitted to cannibalising Brandes and expressed regret for his actions. He added he wanted to write a biography with the aim of deterring anyone wanting to follow in his footsteps. Websites dedicated to Meiwes started appearing after his 2002 arrest, with people advertising for willing victims. "They should go for treatment, so it doesn't escalate like it did with me," said Meiwes. While in prison, Meiwes has since become
192-404: A bath, before going to read a Star Trek book, while checking on Brandes every fifteen minutes, during which time Brandes lay bleeding in the bath, drifting in and out of consciousness. After long hesitation and prayer, Meiwes killed Brandes by stabbing him in the throat, after which he hung the body on a meat hook. The incident was recorded on a four-hour videotape, which has never been released to
240-447: A campy style. They have featured such personalities as Keith Haring , Larry Kramer , Diamanda Galás , William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Judith Malina , Jeff Stryker , Jayne County , Divine , Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and a row of Warhol superstars . In over 50 years, von Praunheim has made more than 150 films (short and feature-length films). His works influenced the development of LGBTQ+ movements worldwide. Von Praunheim
288-728: A lengthy investigation. He documented his quest in his film Two Mothers (2007), which was shown at Tribeca Film Festival . He received the name Holger Mischwitzky and spent his early years in East Berlin . In 1953, he escaped from East Germany with his family to West Germany , first to the Rhineland , moving later to Frankfurt am Main . After Mischwitzky left secondary school (a Gymnasium in Frankfurt), he studied at Werkkunstschule in Offenbach . Later he transferred to
336-521: A positive reassessment of lesbians and gays. In the early 1990s, von Praunheim developed the first queer TV format in Germany, but continued his film work at the same time. His film Life Is Like a Cucumber with Lotti Huber was shown at Toronto International Film Festival (1991). He was honored with two FIPRESCI Awards for his films I Am My Own Woman (1992) and Neurosia (1995). Von Praunheim's film Transexual Menace (1996), named after
384-539: A psychologist stated that Meiwes could re-offend, as he "still had fantasies about devouring the flesh of young people." On 10 May 2006, a court in Frankfurt convicted Meiwes of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. As of 2020, Meiwes has been allowed to go outside of prison for supervised excursions in disguise around town in a different state. In prison, Meiwes works at the laundry and often attends church service. In 2023, Meiwes' former home burnt down in what
432-599: A sequel in 1975 ( Berlin Bed Sausage ): " Avant-garde cinema also has its masters, its greatest in Germany: Rosa von Praunheim. His film The Bed Sausage , which premiered on ZDF , confirmed once again what his works Pink Workers on Golden Street and Sisters of the Revolution , which have already been shown at many festivals, characterise: A mixture of artistic inventiveness, social awareness and humour that
480-447: A suspected arson attack that occurred in the early morning of 17 April 2023. Armin Meiwes was born on 1 December 1961, the only child of Waltraud Meiwes (1919–1999). He had two older half-brothers from his father's previous relationship with another woman. His father abandoned Armin when he was eight, leaving him to be raised by his mother. During sessions with police experts, Meiwes had explained that his desire for cannibalism, related to
528-444: A vegetarian. In April 2005, a German court ordered a retrial after prosecutors appealed Meiwes's sentence, arguing that he should have been convicted of murder because he killed for sexual gratification, a motive proved by his having videotaped the crime. The court ruled that the original trial had ignored the significance of the video in disproving the argument that Meiwes only killed because he had been asked to kill. At his retrial,
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#1732772309319576-518: Is a cornerstone of documentary filmmaking about transgender people." Von Praunheim's The Einstein of Sex (1999) about Magnus Hirschfeld premiered at Locarno Festival and was nominated for the Golden Leopard . His film Can I be your Bratwurst, please? (1999) with Jeff Stryker and Vaginal Davis has been shown at over 250 film festivals around the world (a world record-breaking festival utilization). Moving Pictures Magazine chose
624-729: Is exceedingly rare in Germany." ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ). In 1971, the director also caused a stir with his film It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives which led to many gay rights groups being founded and was the beginning of the modern lesbian and gay liberation movement in West Germany and Switzerland: "Rosa von Praunheim's film made an epoch." ( Frankfurter Rundschau ) The film also made Rosa von Praunheim
672-636: Is just the man for the job he has taken on with Silence = Death and Positive : he has the breadth of vision, the compassion and the militance and, yes, the sense of humor necessary to tackle the AIDS epidemic in all its aspects." Critic Jerry Tallmer, co-founder of the Obie Awards , wrote in the newspaper The Record : "[...] Rosa (originally Holger) von Praunheim, the brilliant, acerbic director of such breakthrough gay-revolutionist works as Silence & Death and A Virus Knows No Morals ." Von Praunheim
720-830: The Berlin University of the Arts where he studied fine arts but did not graduate. In the mid-1960s he began his career associated to the New German Cinema . He adopted the female stage name Rosa von Praunheim to remember the Pink triangle (Rosa Winkel) that homosexuals were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps , as well as the Frankfurt neighborhood of Praunheim where he grew up. Von Praunheim made his debut with experimental and short movies, like Sisters of
768-410: The fairy tale Hansel and Gretel , had developed during his adolescent years. He had also described himself feeling "very lonesome" after "the family had fallen apart". Meiwes identifies as bisexual . Looking for a willing volunteer, Meiwes posted an online advertisement stating that he was "looking for a well-built 18- to 25-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed." Bernd-Jürgen Armando Brandes,
816-827: The AIDS crisis." ( Los Angeles Times ) The documentaries Positive and Silence = Death , both shot in 1989, deal with aspects of AIDS activism in New York. Fire Under Your Ass (1990) focuses on AIDS in Berlin. For the so-called AIDS trilogy , von Praunheim was awarded the LGBTIQ-Film-Prize of the Berlin International Film Festival . The Guardian , one of Britain's most important newspapers, wrote in 1992: " Silence = Death and Positive : The best AIDS films to date [...]." The Los Angeles Times summed it up: "In short, Praunheim
864-704: The American transgender rights organization The Transexual Menace , was after City of Lost Souls again a very progressive film about transgender people and premiered at Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco and was also shown at Outfest in Los Angeles : "Von Praunheim's Transexual Menace dispenses with the usual cliches and brings us bang up to date with a profile of the new generation of politically-active transsexuals […]." ( The Independent ) The New York Times wrote: "[...] Transexual Menace
912-473: The American gay and lesbian movement from the 1950s until the late 1970s. He was also interested in the underground theater in New York City, which was the focus of some of his films of this period including Underground and Emigrants (1976). In 1979, von Praunheim won a German Film Award for Tally Brown, New York , a documentary about American singer and actress Tally Brown , who died in 1989. In
960-758: The Creative Vision Award of Rhode Island International Film Festival . The American Cinematheque in Hollywood honored von Praunheim with a retrospective in 1997 as "a fearless international pioneer of gay cinema". In 1986, the first edition of the Gay Cinema Festival in Toronto held a Rosa von Praunheim retrospective to honor the director as "the dean of Berlin's underground filmmakers". In Canada, his films were also shown at Montreal World Film Festival , among other places. Several of
1008-548: The Homosexual… truly earns that description. The breakout film by director and activist Rosa von Praunheim (aka Holger Mischwitzky) became a foundational text of the German gay rights movement, and its call for liberation reverberated through the history of queer cinema." This movie found great resonance internationally. Some artists have referred to the film, for example Bruce LaBruce with the short film collection It Is Not
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#17327723093191056-883: The Honorary Award of Swiss Pink Apple Film Festival . On occasion of his 70th birthday (2012), von Praunheim made 70 short and medium-length films for German regional television station RBB under the title Rosa's World . Never before has a documentary filmmaker received so much airtime on German television. Rosa's World has also been shown at film festivals, for example in Vienna (Austria). Von Praunheim has written several books that have been successfully published by publishing houses such as Rowohlt Verlag . Von Praunheim has been painting since his early youth and occasionally exhibits in galleries and museums, for example at Migros Museum of Contemporary Art . He curated exhibitions himself, for example at Lincoln Center , and
1104-604: The Moving Image ) These films were shown at film festivals worldwide. His feature film Horror Vacui won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for best experimental film in 1985. Anita: Dances of Vice (1987), the life story of a scandalous nude dancer in Berlin in the 1920s, attracted international attention. The film was shown, for example, at New York Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival . With
1152-607: The Pornographer That Is Perverse... (2018). A prolific and controversial filmmaker, von Praunheim has centered his directorial efforts in documentaries featuring gay-related themes. In the early 1970s, he lived for some time in the United States where he made a series of documentaries about the post- Stonewall American gay scene. In Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979) he took on
1200-496: The Revolution (1969) and Samuel Beckett (1969), with which he quickly became famous. His film Macbeth - Opera by Rosa von Praunheim was shown at documenta V . He married actress Carla Egerer [ de ] (aka Carla Aulaulu) in 1969. The marriage ended two years later in divorce. During the same period, he collaborated with camerawoman Elfi Mikesch [ de ] in a number of film projects. This artistic friendship and collaboration continues to this day. At
1248-551: The USA von Praunheim worked with camera people like Jeff Preiss , Mike Kuchar and Juliana Wang . Back in Berlin, he made feature films such as Our Corpses Are Still Alive (1981) and Red Love (1982). In 1983, von Praunheim's revolutionary film City of Lost Souls (1983) with Jayne County and Angie Stardust was released: "This riotous and massively ahead-of-its-time intersectional queer-punk musical has gone on to greatly influence transgender politics." ( Australian Centre for
1296-399: The beginning of his career, von Praunheim also worked as an assistant director for Gregory J. Markopoulos , who dedicated his film (A)lter (A)ction (1968) to him. Rainer Werner Fassbinder staged the play Dedicated to Rosa von Praunheim (1969). Von Praunheim's first feature film was produced in 1971: The Bed Sausage , a parody of bourgeois marriage. It became a cult movie, which had
1344-420: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 197249373 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:38:29 GMT Rosa von Praunheim Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke ; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim , is a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of
1392-1035: The director's films premiered in Great Britain at Edinburgh International Film Festival and in Australia at Sydney Film Festival . The Tate Modern in London also showed Rosa von Praunheim's films. Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney honored von Praunheim in a film series about the most important queer filmmakers. Queer film festival Ciclo Rosa (Zyklos Rosa) in Bogotá was named in honor of Rosa von Praunheim. In South America, von Praunheim's films were shown at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and São Paulo International Film Festival , among other places. In Asia, for example, at Shanghai International Film Festival , Hong Kong International Film Festival , Taipei Film Festival and Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival . Von Praunheim
1440-714: The film as best title in Cannes . In 2000, he was awarded the Robert-Geisendörfer-Preis [ de ] for Wunderbares Wrodow , a documentary about the people in and around a German village and its castle. His film Cows knocked up by fog (2002) premiered Venice Film Festival . From 1999 to 2006, von Praunheim was professor of directing at the Film University of Babelsberg . Von Praunheim has also taught at various film and art schools, including San Francisco Art Institute , where Abel Ferrara
1488-544: The leading figure of the lesbian and gay movement in West Germany: "It is a personal liberation for Holger Mischwitzky [Rosa von Praunheim] - and a wake-up call for all homosexual men. […] With this film, Rosa von Praunheim became the icon of the gay and lesbian movement in Germany almost overnight." ( Deutsche Welle ). American film critic Joe Hoeffner wrote in an article about the twelve most important queer films: "Many films have been called revolutionary, but It Is Not
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1536-773: The most important representatives of German cinema. Von Praunheim also received the Berlinale Special Teddy Award for his outstanding contributions to queer cinema. In 2012, he was awarded the Grimme-Preis for his documentary Rent Boys . In 2015, he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 2020, he was awarded the Max Ophüls Honorary Award for his life's work. Von Praunheim also received
1584-495: The most influential and famous queer activists in the German-speaking world. A pioneer of Queer Cinema and gay activist from the very beginning, von Praunheim was a key co-founder of the modern lesbian and gay movement in West Germany and Switzerland. He was an early advocate of AIDS awareness and safer sex. His films center on queer -related themes and strong female characters, are characterized by excess and employ
1632-475: The occasion of von Praunheim's 75th birthday (2017), President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier thanked him publicly for his artistic work and social commitment: "My congratulations go to an exceptional artist who, with his extensive cinematic oeuvre, has succeeded in intervening in social reality and changing it [...]." Von Praunheim lives in Berlin with his husband Oliver Sechting [ de ] ,
1680-487: The outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, von Praunheim worked on films about the HIV-related disease. A Virus Knows No Morals (1986) was one of the first feature films about AIDS internationally: " A Virus Respects No Morals , a savage, imaginative, scattershot Brecht-like allegory set largely in a gay bath, became one of the earliest and most provocative attacks on the hypocrisy, ignorance, politics and economics surrounding
1728-401: The public due to its gruesome contents. Four screenshots allegedly from the videotape can be found online, but their credibility is unproven. Meiwes dismembered and ate the corpse over the next ten months, storing body parts in his freezer under pizza boxes and consuming up to 20 kilograms (44 lb) of the flesh. According to prosecutors, Meiwes committed the act for sexual pleasure. Meiwes
1776-480: The stigmatized gays from homosexual celebrities, of which there were hardly any in the German public at that time. Because of this, von Praunheim was considered a controversial figure in his home country for a long time, even within the queer community. But after the public outing action several celebrities had their coming out . In addition, the German-speaking media began to report on homosexuality in more than just negative and problematic contexts. The outings initiated
1824-427: The two men attempting to eat it together. Before doing so, Brandes swallowed twenty sleeping pills, and a bottle of cough syrup, likely causing an effect of slowed breathing and extreme tiredness. Brandes initially insisted that Meiwes should attempt to bite his penis off. This did not work, and ultimately, Meiwes used a knife to remove it. Brandes apparently tried to eat some of his own penis raw but could not, because it
1872-588: Was a co-founder of the German ACT UP movement and organized the first major AIDS benefit event in Germany. He was vocal in his efforts to educate people about the danger of AIDS and the necessity of practicing safer sex. On 10 December 1991, von Praunheim created a scandal in Germany when he outed the anchorman Alfred Biolek and the comedian Hape Kerkeling in the TV show Explosiv - Der heiße Stuhl [ de ] as gay to call for public solidarity with
1920-529: Was arrested in December 2002, when a college student alerted authorities to new advertisements for victims online. Investigators searched his home and found body parts along with the videotape of the killing. Meiwes was diagnosed with a schizoid personality but deemed fit to stand trial. On 30 January 2004, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison. The case attracted considerable media attention. When speaking to
1968-519: Was arrested in December 2002. In January 2004, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison. In a retrial in May 2006, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Because of his acts, Meiwes is also known as the Rotenburg Cannibal or Der Metzgermeister (The Master Butcher). The house where the murder took place was destroyed in
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2016-706: Was born as Holger Radtke in Riga Central Prison [ lv ] in the German-occupied Latvia during World War II . His biological mother died in 1946 in the Wittenauer Heilstätten (a psychiatric hospital in Berlin). After his birth, he was given up for adoption. He only found out these facts when his adoptive mother, Gertrud Mischwitzky, told him in 2000. He discovered the fate of his biological mother in 2006 after
2064-655: Was director of the film and video arts department at Academy of Arts (2015 - 2018). Rosa von Praunheim had many large and well-regarded film screenings and premieres in the US, for example at Museum of Modern Art in New York City (more than 15 times), at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh , at Wheeler Hall of the University of California, Berkeley and at film festivals across the country. For example, he won
2112-589: Was followed 20 years later by the sequel New York Memories (2009). He is a successful theater director, winning the Jury-Award at the Theater Authors Days (2018) at Deutsches Theater Berlin for his play Hitler's Goat and the King's Haemorrhoids . The magazine The Advocate selected von Praunheim among the world's 50 most important queer people in the fields of activism, art and culture. On
2160-559: Was one of his students. Former Praunheim students, filmmakers Tom Tykwer , Chris Kraus , Axel Ranisch , Robert Thalheim and Julia von Heinz , made the film Pink Children (2012) about their mentor. In 2008, his film Two Mothers was shown at Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for the Jury-Award. At 63rd Berlin International Film Festival , he was awarded the Berlinale Camera as one of
2208-824: Was represented at many A film festivals worldwide, often several times. He had more than 20 films at Berlin International Film Festival , making him record holder, and had numerous retrospectives in many countries. His films are also evaluated in an academic context and shown at universities, for example at Beaux-Arts de Paris , The Courtauld Institute of Art London , University of Pennsylvania , Columbia University in New York City and Harvard University in Cambridge . Von Praunheim's work has found its way into various academic papers and publications, including from Stanford University and Oxford University . His film Survival in New York (1989) became von Praunheim's most commercially successful film in Germany, which
2256-615: Was suspected to be an arson attack. Two juvenile suspects are under investigation, but no arrests have been made. Other films based on the case include: Rosa von Praunheim 's Dein Herz in meinem Hirn (English title: Your Heart in My Head ) and Ulli Lommel's Diary of a Cannibal . Consensual homicide Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
2304-463: Was too tough and, as he put it, "chewy". Meiwes then fried the penis in a pan with salt, pepper, wine, and garlic; he then fried it with some of Brandes' fat, but by then it was too burnt to be consumed. He then chopped the penis up into chunks and fed it to his dog. According to court officials who saw the video (which has not been made public), Brandes may already have been too weakened from blood loss to eat any of his own penis. Meiwes then ran Brandes
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