ABSTRACT
RC: So, to begin at the beginning – where you were born, what your parents did.
JL: I was not born into a really ‘gutbürgerliche family situation’. But it would have been, if . . .! My father Wilhelm Waitzmann met my mother during his studies in Freiburg in Breisgau, a very interesting, although very catholic university city in the southwest of Germany, in the so-called Higher Black Forest. My mother, Frieda Ketterer, was an apprentice in fashion design. My mother told me I was the gift of her great love and so she treated me in my childhood like a treasure. As my parents didn’t marry, I was born as Juliane Maria Ketterer. When I was two years old, my mother left her home village near Freiburg and went to Stuttgart, where she met her first husband Dieter Lorenz. He gave me his name, and as I felt he was my father, I would say that from then on there was nothing preventing me from feeling I had an ordinary family background. My stepfather and my mother had two children, so I have a seven years younger brother and a ten years younger sister.
