Katharina Volckmer 'Germans say they've dealt with their past. But I don’t think you can'
over 3 years in The guardian
The Appointment’s darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity has not been published in the author’s home country – yet. But she wants to break the awkward silence over German history
The subtitle of Katharina Volckmer’s debut novel is revealed only on the title page: “The Appointment (Or, The Story of a Cock)”. In the US edition, it’s a “Jewish Cock”. Volckmer has said the subheading was kept off the cover “as a surprise” – making it the first of many unsteadying gear shifts in a monologue that sets out to unsettle.
In a plush private practice in London, one Dr Seligman examines a new patient, a young German woman who has recently come into some money. The Appointment follows her intimate confession as she unburdens herself to the physician – about her obsession with Hitler, her outré sexual fantasies (often involving Hitler), and the multifaceted shame she feels as a woman, as a daughter, and as a German. Continue reading...
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