When Dietmar Hahlweg made Erlangen the “German Environment Capital”, his daughter Barbara was pinned down for her father’s “insane” policies. She left town when she was 18. And ended up on ZDF. a conversation
Interviewed by
Olaf Przybilla, Erlangen
Dietmar Hahlweg was Mayor of Erlangen for 24 years from 1972. His daughter Barbara Hahlweg has been moderating the main news program on ZDF for 15 years. A conversation in the Hahlwegs’ house about cycling as a pioneering act, Protestant admiration for old Bavaria and what it’s like to become a figure in world literature.