Talk:Peter Kürten

message: The playwright Anthony Neilson has written a stageplay revolving around the trial of Peter Kürten entitled 'Normal' (which incidentally explores the relationship between Kürten and his wife). I would put this on the page though I'll let someone do it in such a manner that it won't be instantly deleted by the wiki police.
: In 2009 there will be Czech film Normal aka Angels Gone starring Dagmar Havlová, the actress and wife of Czech ex-president Václav Havel in the role of Kürten's wife. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1342408/ , http://www.normalfilm.cz/ Put this information in the article, please. Sorry for my english. Dronte (talk) 15:41, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural impact

message: Why is the fact that his head is housed in Wisconsin Dells dubious?  Having been there and seen it, I can assert that it is.  If pictures are needed, I'll get one the next time I go.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.245.73 (talk) 16:39, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur.  It's quite easy to find a picture of it on the internet.  I believe it is currently in Hawaii in the original owner's possession, but that could be wrong.  Ripley's may still have it.  It appears dissected as it was when they studied it, cut in half.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.111.211.195 (talk) 20:17, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Kuerten's head

message: Would it be possible to have more information about kuertens wife? How did
such a man come to marry and why did she not become a victim?
:Apparently because he was actually very fond of her. He even told her to turn him in and take the reward.(83.13.39.98 (talk) 22:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kuerten's wife

message: Seconds sentence of the second paragraph: "Disturbed from an early age,"
Then, middle of the second to last paragraph: "Kürten was, in fact, in perfect mental health"
Are these reconcililable? Thanx. 68.39.174.238 00:10, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Two things in here contradict themselves:

message: Reference found here:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/kurten/killer_4.html
Do not revert, people.
: Owing to ambiguous punctuation, that citation still raises the question of whether the dogcatcher taught Kurten how to masturbate himself (and how to torture dogs) or taught Kurten how to masturbate dogs as well as torturing them.  Both very strange things for a dogcatcher to teach a kid.  Asat (talk) 06:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kuerten masturbating dogs

message: Why are there no references/notes/external links within the article?  Can we do something about that?  Maria 03:21, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References, etc

message: In the third paragraph of the "Murders" section: "The variety of victims and murder methods gave police the impression that more than one killer was at large: the police had over 900,000 different names on their potential suspect list." Over 900,000 names? That seems too high to be plausible to me, plus the phrase is similar to the "it's over 9,000" meme, which makes me even more suspicious. There doesn't seem to be a citation for it, so I'm not sure if the recourse is to add a "citation needed" tag, or what. Bspatafora (talk) 03:57, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of names on suspect list

message: Randy Newman's composition "In Germany Before The War" is a song about Peter Kürten. For some reason it has been decided that song references ar "verboten", so there is no mention of Newman's song on this page. 
"PLEASE DO NOT ADD SONG REFERENCES, INCIDENTAL THEATER PORTRAYALS, REFERENCES TO INCIDENTAL DEPICTIONS UPON ALBUM COVERS OR OTHER DEPICTIONS UPON TV SHOWS LIKE COMICS, ALBUM COVERS OR OTHER IRRELEVANT TRIVIA HERE. IT DOES NOT BELONG HERE AND WILL REMOVED WITH NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. TRIVIA IS INAPPROPRIATE PER THE PROJECT GOVERNING THIS ARTICLE"
Why not?Who has decided it's "irrelevant trivia"? Arrivisto (talk) 19:47, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This template (or very similar derivatives) exist upon many articles of this nature. See the Ted Bundy one. It existed before I joined Wiki. in 2008. I couldn't agree more with the message personally because believe me, without it, you'll see a deluge of inclusions of incidental mentions by John or Jane Hollywood upon series 4 episode 3 of such and such a sitcom, a fictional crime show, or mention upon a Church of Misery song etc.--Kieronoldham (talk) 01:53, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Randy Newman – In Germany Before The War 

message: Is it really , not ? (cc ) Nardog (talk) 11:33, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The short vowel is correct here ( or ), based on the common pronunciation of the town :Kürten and the name :Dieter Kürten (listen to his own pronunciation here). –Austronesier (talk) 14:57, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks! But I believe we use  after short vowels following Duden and de Gruyter's pronunciation dictionaries. Nardog (talk) 10:59, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation