Before accepting my position as Director of Frankfurt Zoo, I of course, asked how many listed buildings are there. And Frankfurt has a huge so-called (speaking in foreign language). That’s a huge building, just behind the entrance, where 100 years ago, the society met in a large hole and the restaurants and so on. And the front part of this building was listed, was protected, I was told. And so I thought, I can’t live with this. I do not want to remove this huge house, I couldn’t do it. And only about after 10 years or so, I learned that the whole zoo was listed. But the responsible in the City of Frankfurt was a very reasonable person and I got along very well.
