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need to justify it every day for themselves. We only give hints like Rob's pet rabbit in Nekromantik or
with Schramm you have this footage from his childhood. I was afraid that if I explained something it
would become a cliche.
The cutting of the flesh in the films is where the characters are the most vital.
It's a sad moment, because she's cutting up someone she likes and even if he's dead, its kind of a
orange situation for her. On one side she wants to be normal again, and wants to have a living normal
bovfriend, and on the other hand, she is sad that she is giving up her way of life.
In her running commentary to the film, Monika M. said that Schramm feels incomplete. The charac-
ter's amputated leg is never explained.
I think it's his feeling of not being a real man, not a whole thing, maybe impotence. If his leg falls
off he will not be able to run away from himself.
In the film you have this draw which has lipsticks and a knife with goo attached to it and later the
image of a vagina dentata. Why is there so much emphasis on imagery associated with female sexuality in
the film?
That's the stuff he collects from his victims and that's why his bedroom is about all the dead
women transformed into that draw into this biting vagina! The lipsticks for me were a very easy
way to tell the audience, it didn't work in the end, that he killed a lot of women already. That's why
he has all those lipsticks in his drawer. Having a serial-killer plotline would have been an excellent
excuse to show shots of women getting killed, but we have only a little bit of killing - this is not
important. The lipsticks represent the killing we did not show.
When Monika is tied up in the house, why didn't you show what happens inside that house?
Because we had no convincing actors.
Aren't they like old Nazis? Isn't that the whole point of it? Why does she have to dress up in the Nazi
stuff?
You can assume that these guys are maybe old Nazis or some people who do worse things than
Florian can even imagine. It is also a way of feeling Florian is someone who would have the chance to
rescue Monika, but because he fell off the ladder he can't do it anymore. Schramm is not only a killer,
he can also also be a saviour.
I can get confused by the characters. On the hand, Schramm seems quite a nice guy when he is with
Monika. He doesn't appear to enjoy his sex stuff either, so why does he do it?
He feels the need to have sex, but normally people don't feel satisfied with the things that they do.
In a way it's like the concept of necrophilia. They do something because they can't get the real
thing.
Are there any autobiographical similarities between your father in Mein Papi and the character of
Schramm? They both seem to have this problem with their head.
He looks in his brain, but there's no sickness involved, and I didn't want to have this connection
because it makes it seem that these bad things are only done by accident then, and not chosen.
He's also quite plump and he's got brown hair. He's not unlike your father in Mein Papi?
But he's younger and he's not that big. I mean my father couldn't kill anybody really because he
was too plump I think!
Are you happy with the Der Todesking?

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