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“You come out of the Karstadt and grin at yourself, horrific”
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Still likes to get involved in day-to-day political business: retired Federal Minister. D. and long-time SPD member of the Bundestag and Landtag, Renate Schmidt.
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Renate Schmidt, former family minister, embodies one of the most successful times of social democracy in Bavaria. A conversation about the SPD – then and now, and the question of what it’s like to see campaign posters of yourself.
Interview by Katja Auer and
Olaf Przybilla, Nuremberg
An Italian restaurant in Nuremberg, high level, Renate Schmidt chose it. The Federal Minister a. D. arrives on time, in a good mood and at an impressive speed of thinking and speaking. After half an hour of compressed content, she asks: “Do you want to write a novel?”
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