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3 unusual facts about Peter Kürten


Dedicated to Peter Kürten

The album cover features the image of the serial killer Peter Kürten, who has an instrumental track "dedicated" to him.

Peter Kürten

Playwright Anthony Neilson's 1991 work Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper is a fictional account of Peter Kürten's life, is told from the point of view of his defense lawyer.

The Vampire of Düsseldorf

The film was based on the life and crimes of German serial killer Peter Kürten.


Clinical vampirism

Serial killers Peter Kürten and Richard Trenton Chase were both called "vampires" in the tabloids after they were discovered drinking the blood of the people they murdered.

Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper

Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper is Anthony Neilson's fictional account of Peter Kürten's life, told from the point of view of his lawyer.

The Sadist

The Sadist (German: "Der Sadist") is a book published by psychiatrist Karl Berg, following the confessions of Peter Kürten, a well-known serial killer in the late 1920s in Germany.


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Hans Peter Kürten

Hans Peter Kürten was extremely successful at selling bits of the Ludendorff Bridge support pylon stones as souvenirs which had to be removed from the Rhine because they were inhibiting navigation through the town of Remagen in Ahrweiler.