After having sex, chopped off Brandes' penis which the pair ate together

Gave graphic insight into the shocking 2001 killing for a new documentary

Meiwes described his first bite of human flesh as 'very strange' in interview

A notorious German cannibal has described in shockingly graphic detail how he killed and ate his gay lover ‘with his permission’.

Armin Meiwes became one of the most infamous cannibals in history after killing and consuming 43-year-old computer technician Bernd Brandes in 2001.

The pair met after Brandes posted an advert online entitled ‘Dinner – or your dinner’ and offering ‘the chance to eat me alive’.

Meiwes, 42, from Rotenburg, has given horrific insight into the killing which stunned the country.

Killer: Notorious German cannibal Armin Meiwes (pictured) has described how he killed and ate his gay lover 'with his permission' in 2001, in a shocking interview for a new documentary

‘I decorated the table with nice candles,’ he said. ‘I took out my best dinner service, and fried and piece of rump steak – a piece from his back – made what I call princess potatoes, and sprouts,’ he said, in an unprecedented interview for new documentary ‘Docs: Interview with a Cannibal’.

‘After I prepared my meal, I ate it.

‘The first bite was, of course, very strange. It was a feeling I can’t really describe. I’d spent over 40 years longing for it, dreaming about it.

‘And now I was getting the feeling that I was actually achieving this perfect inner connection through his flesh. The flesh tastes like pork but stronger.’

Victim: Bernd Brandes (pictured) posted an advert online offering himself to 'be eaten alive'

Meiwes became the first person in Germany to be charged with murder for sexual satisfaction, or ‘love cannibalism’.

After the pair met they went to Meiwes isolated farmhouse, where they had sex. But, according to Meiwes, Brandes was not satisfied because ‘he wanted to be eaten alive’.

Brandes then swallowed 20 sleeping tablets with half a bottle of schnapps before Meiwes cut off his penis ‘with his agreement’, and fried it for them both to eat.

Meiwes later ran a bath for Brandes, and read a Star Trek novel while checking on him every 15 minutes.

He eventually killed Brandes in the early hours of the morning, by stabbing him in the neck and then chopping him into pieces.

He put parts of him in the freezer, and buried his head in his garden.

Meiwes filmed much of the gruesome killing, and 19 minutes of the four-hour video were later shown during his trial.

But according to the documentary the video is ‘too disturbing to show’.

Meiwes – who has become known as Der Metzgermeister, or the Master Butcher – blames his father for his behaviour, after he abandoned his family when Meiwes was just five years old.

He was left as the only ‘man of the house’ when both of his older brothers also left.

It was only after the death of his mother that Meiwes stumbled across the world of cannibalism online, where he discovered chatrooms of people offering themselves to be eaten.

Scene of the crime: Meiwes became the first person in Germany to be charged with 'love cannibalism'. The pair went to Meiwes' isolated farmhouse (pictured) before they had sex and Meiwes killed and ate Brandes

Meiwes was arrested in December 2002, after police were tipped off by a young Austrian student that Meiwes had killed and eaten someone.

Police visited his isolated farmhouse, and discovered meat that Meiwes claimed was wild pig in a freezer, which had a false bottom.

At his trial, several men who harboured fantasies of eating human flesh testified that there was a large network of like-minded individuals who connected through cyberspace in a bid to satisfy their fantasies.

Meiwes’ obsession with eating someone began as a teenager, he said during his trial.

But after killing Brandes he admitted that he ‘had my big kick and I don’t need to do it again’.

He said his victim ‘came to me of his own free will to end his life. For him, it was a nice death’.