A famous novel by
Mary Shelley, the full title is
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (get the full text of the book there!). The author wrote the book in 1816, at the age of 19, while living in
Geneva.
The story: A student of
medicine,
Victor Frankenstein, creates an artificial being who, realizing that it will always be feared and hated, becomes homicidal.
More widely known than the novel is the 1931 movie adaption directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff.
The setting of the novel is Ingolstadt, a small town in southern Germany, about 80km north of Munich. Ingolstadt had, at that time, one of the oldest universities in Europe, which was later incorporated into Munich's LMU. This university was also where the Illuminati were founded, an academic secret society the most famous member of which had been Goethe. Marry Shelley's husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley had connections to them, and this was probably also a source of inspiration for the book.