Overview
- Lang recounts growing up with her single mother and grandmother in Nürtingen after her parents separated before her birth.
- She describes her father as not an easy person whose life was devoted to art, leaving little room for other things.
- As a child she spent hours in his studio drawing and shaping sculptures, though she later studied law and pursued politics, which he followed with interest.
- She says living with him would have brought a lot of hurt, whereas distance sustained closeness and mutual love.
- Coverage notes Dietz later developed Alzheimer’s and died in January 2019, and reports that her husband, Florian Wilsch, is now the most important man in her life.