Armin Meiwes - Cultural Impact

Cultural Impact

• The song "Mein Teil" by German band Rammstein was inspired by the case.
• Other songs inspired by Meiwes's story include "The Wüstenfeld Man Eater" by American death/thrash metal band Macabre, "Cannibal Anthem" by German electro-industrial project :wumpscut:, and "Menschenfresser " by electro-industrial act Suicide Commando.
• Dan Swanö of the Swedish death metal band Bloodbath wrote a song about this whole story entitled "Eaten" in their record "Nightmares Made Flesh".
• Rock musician Marilyn Manson has identified Meiwes as inspirational in the titling of his album Eat Me, Drink Me.
• Feature film Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story (aka Rohtenburg) was banned in that country after Meiwes complained that his personality rights had been violated. The ban has since been lifted by Germany's highest civil court on appeal and has been released in German cinemas. The film won multiple awards at the 2006 Festival de Cine de Sitges, including Best Director, Best Actor for the two male leads, and Best Cinematography.
• Other films based on the case include Rosa von Praunheim's Dein Herz in Meinem Hirn (Your Heart in My Brain); Marian Dora's Cannibal; and Ulli Lommel's Diary of a Cannibal.
• In 2006, the film Cannibal was released, reconstructing the event. The film is directed by Marian Dora and stars actors Carsten Frank, Victor Brandl and Manoush. The film was banned in Germany.
• Meiwes's life and the murder are the subject of an episode titled "The Man Who Ate His Lover" from the sensationalist documentary series Bodyshock.
• In 2008 the distributor MORE Music and Media released the four-hour interview and documentary from RTL Extra on DVD as "Der Kannibale von Rotenburg"; it was released in the UK as Armin Meiwes: The Cannibal.
• British sitcom The IT Crowd episode "Moss and the German" is loosely based on this case.
• Early in the 2005 Australian movie Feed, there is a scene where the hero saves a man in Germany from a cannibal, only to have him scream at the hero that he wants to be eaten. This was obviously inspired from the Armin Meiwes case.
• Referenced in the show Bones episode 4 Season 3.
• Meiwes is mentioned in the Swedish film comedy Cockpit. The main character played by Jonas Karlsson talks about Meiwes while eating a cocktail sausage.