MARGRET - Chronik einer Affäre

MARGRET - Chronik einer Affäre; collected materials and photographs; essays by Veit Loers and Susanne Pfeffer; 142 pages; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König; 2012

A married businessman has an affair with a married woman, his secretary. She is in her early twenties, he is approaching forty. In principle, there is nothing particularly noteworthy about this. As it turns out, things appear to be a ménage à quatre with two non-participating partners, since the man’s wife knows of the affair (he has to make his wife apologize to his lover, who had been called a floozy and now threatens to withhold further sex), and the woman’s husband might or might not be aware of what’s going on. We know all of this because the man decides to document their affair, taking photographs and collecting material, such as restaurant menus, train tickets, hotel bills, some of her hair (pubic and otherwise), some of her nail clippings, even a scab from her wrist. On top of that, the man writes a diary, using a typewriter, chronicling events: When and where they go and/or meet, the various photographs taken, their love making, and more. Decades later, the material is found in a black suitcase, sold at an estate sale, somewhere in Cologne (Germany).

Conscientious | Review: MARGRET - Chronik einer Affäre

Jan 3, 2013 – A married businessman has an affair with a married woman, his secretary. She is in her early twenties, he is approaching forty. In principle

Conscientious | Review: MARGRET - Chronik einer Affäre

A married businessman has an affair with a married woman, his secretary. She is in her early twenties, he is approaching forty. In principle, there is nothing particularly noteworthy about this. As

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