The Fear Before the Wife

<p>Imprisoned in a lunatic asylum Professor Karl Barkentin writes the confession of how he came to murder his wife.</p><blockquote><p>I watched Lilli wordlessly for quite some time and then - then it climbed up in me for the first time; an uncanny delight beset me with the thought "If this women were to lie dead before you then you would be single and rid of all the worrying; death is the actual lover she needs he will hold her fast and guard her.</p></blockquote><p>Georg Julius Leopold Engel (1866-1931) was a German author and dramatist whose works were banned and grave desecrated by the Nazis. A number of his novels were bestsellers and some were adapted into movies during his own lifetime.</p>