A serial killer's bawdy poetry
3 autograph manuscripts.
Small folio. Altogether 88 lines on 1 page. In German.
€ 2,500.00
Three previously unpublished bawdy, autobiographical poems, all apparently written at the same time and dedicated to his girlfriend, the then 18-year-old Bianca Mrak, with whom Unterweger escaped to the United States, where he was arrested in 1992.
To his "critics": "[...] Aesthetes know nothing / of gut language!".
About a sex killer's old age: "[...] the prick won't do the job / as well as it used to / let HER say no / a MAN's no longer thirty / better this than make a fool of oneself / giving up is out of the question / smashing in one's head as usual / this silly, damn getting old!".
About "Uschi's change of mind": "[...] hands, lips, tongues / anything but mindless screwing / oral, vaginal, anal / creative, almost artistic [...] The yellow press starts a manhunt / by order of the police. Total prejudgment / a man with a past / a criminal and murders - by the dozen / unsolved for years / presumed innocent - not HIM [...]" (transl.).
While serving a life sentence for the strangulation of a German woman in 1974, Unterweger began to write, attracting the attention of Austria's literary set. Soon considered a model case of criminal rehabilitation, he was released in 1990 and was subsequently embraced by the country's intellectual scene. It was not long before Unterweger was linked to additional femicides in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Los Angeles. Following a chase through Europe and the U.S., he was arrested in Florida, extradited to Austria, charged with eleven murders and sentenced to life in prison without parole on 29 June 1992. He hanged himself in his cell that same night.
