The big interview

Will you get through all this, Ms. Schilling?

Serious accusations, a failed press conference and then support from the FPÖ: things couldn't have been worse for Lena Schilling this week. Conny Bischofberger met the Green EU top candidate for an interview that was actually planned as a Mother's Day interview.

The "Raimann" in Vienna-Meidling is one of those suburban coffee houses where a Melange costs less than 4 euros. And it is the favorite café of Christina Schilling, the mother of Lena Schilling, who describes herself as a native Viennese. "I often come here to read a book or newspapers," explains the social worker when we meet there on a Friday afternoon, "it's a great place to be anonymous." Lena Schilling sits next to her and drinks raspberry juice.

She has put her hair up and is wearing a green velvet shirt. Our Mother's Day interview was also supposed to be about places of retreat, family support and private moments. Then a tsunami of accusations broke out against the Green top candidate in the EU elections. Lena Schilling decided to do the interview anyway. And her mother also agreed.

"Krone": There are events that break biographies - into a life before and a life after. Was last Tuesday, when the "Standard" published the story about you, such an event?