Stefan Lenz served as mayor of Höchstädt, seven days a week responsive. Then he suffered a heart attack and fell into a coma. On the Wake of the work and the arduous journey back to life.

Thomas Balbierer

On the evening of the 21. November 2016 is the heart of Stefan Lenz. Almost he would have died on the road between Wellingborough and Wertingen. But he was lucky: Only his old life went on that Monday. More than two years later, he sits at the kitchen table of his house, the sun shines through the window, and drinking coffee. He speaks like a happy person: “It would have been better can’t run.”

Stefan Lenz, 58, was mayor of the city of Höchstädt an der …