180,000 copies sold: The Spiegel bestseller now available in paperback - with new conversations! "Helmut Schmidt doesn't just smoke cigarettes. Every time he brings snuff and drinks coffee with milk and extra sugar. One would bounce through the halls like Rumpelstiltskin at the thought of this buzz. Schmidt, on the other hand, is only just warming up." Giovanni di Lorenzo in Spiegel. For more than a year and a half, Giovanni di Lorenzo invited the former chancellor to his office in Hamburg every Friday afternoon for a cigarette. Then the verbal sparring began, a play of showing and hiding, provoking and admonishing, observation and analysis, which has thrilled more than a million readers, both old and young: Many of them have started their weekly reading of the magazine right at the back on the last page.