Fritz Mertens
Fritz Mertens (born June 15, 1963 ; † 2008 ) was the pseudonym of a Swiss author who, at the age of 19 , stabbed a girl and her boyfriend in Villingen (Schwarzwald-Baar district) in December 1982 when Mertens and the girl in the Bed surprised. Then he showered the two of them with rum and lit them. At this point the girl was still alive. For the court expert Reinhart Lempp, Mertens wrote down the events leading to this murder at the end of 1983: a childhood marked by alcoholism and domestic violence on the part of the parents in Villingen and Orsingen, failure at school, one's own slipping into alcoholism and crime, as well as suicide attempts. The autobiography I wanted to love and learned to hate later emerged from the more than 500 pages of handwritten notes ! . Mertens later described the act itself in the book You Die, too, lonely wolf .
Mertens was sentenced to eight years' youth imprisonment in 1983. He died in 2008 of complications from a stroke.
Works
- I wanted love and learned to hate! Autobiography. Diogenes, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-257-21539-8 .
- You die too, lone wolf. Diogenes, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-257-21794-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Mertens in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Book review
- ↑ History of the book at buecher.de (in fact, it is the preface to the book by Reinhart Lempp)
- ^ Villingen-Schwenningen - 1982: The murderer as a bestselling author , schwarzwaelder-bote.de, May 30, 2015, accessed on June 4, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mertens, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1963 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2008 |