‘Poison’, Peer Meter reconstructs the history of the poisoner of Bremen, who killed his 3 children. rtve.es. Jan. 07, 2012. Also her parents, her two husbands and another 8 peoples.She was the last publicly executed criminal in Bremen in 1831. ‘"The mere fact of having poison … that was particularly pleased to … I tell them that I will not." In the middle square of the Cathedral of Bremen can be seen, even today, the plaque that commemorates the place where he was beheaded last criminal executed in public in that city: the famous poisoner of Bremen, Gesche Gottfried, that killed 15 people (including including three children, his parents and two husbands) and supplied poison to at least 19 others. Even the custom persists among the neighbors, to spit on the plate. Read more in Spanish

Watch video: Venomous Women: Poison murderesses in nineteenth-century Germany (23 Feb 2010). UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Venomous Women: Poison murderesses in nineteenth-century GermanyProfessor Susanne Kord (UCL German)
Women and poison have long been thought of as elective affinities: poison is presumed to be a ‘woman’s weapon’, and poison murder as quintessentially ‘female’. An example documenting these assumptions is the case of Germany’s most famous serial killer, Gesche Margarethe Gottfried (1785-1831), convicted of murdering fifteen people, including her entire family. 
This lecture offers an analysis of her interrogation records, her psychological profile (one of the earliest in Germany) and of contemporary fiction about the case. The focus will be on Gottfried’s motives, which she refused to reveal and which have remained mysterious to this day. Can these motives be seen not only as those of a female killer, but as more generally ‘female’?