A horror film has been banned in Germany because it infringes on the personality rights of the German man who killed and ate a voluntary victim on Christmas Day in 2001.
Rohtenburg is a horror film about a man who engages in very similar acts to Armin Meiwes, who was arrested in 2002 and convicted of murder in 2005. Meiwes took the case to assert his ‘personality rights’, which he said were infringed by the film’s portrayal of a story that was clearly about him.
Frankfurt Regional Court agreed that the film, whose title is a pun on the place Rothenburg and the German for raw, ‘roh’, was clearly about Meiwes. It found that his personality right was more important than the right to artistic expression and banned the showing of the film in German cinemas.
The German constitution contains protections for an individual’s personality.
It says: “Every person shall have the right to free development of his personality insofar as he does not violate the rights of others or offend against the constitutional order or the moral law.”
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