I’d spent over 40 years longing for it, dreaming about it. “It was a feeling I can’t really describe. “The first bite was, of course, very strange,” Meiwes said in a 2016 interview with The Independent. So Brandes left his home in Berlin for Meiwes’ house in Rotenburg and took 20 sleeping pills to dull the pain of the amputation.
When his mother died, the 39-year-old placed an ad on a now-defunct forum called The Cannibal Cafe for a “young, well-built man who wanted to be eaten.”Īnd after 43-year-old engineer Bernd Brandes replied with interest, Meiwes agreed.
Thomas Lohnes/DDP/AFP/Getty Images Armin Meiwes ate 44 pounds of human flesh, including his victim’s penis.
