The DRV's chief executive, Dr. Henning Ehlers, writes on her homepage: "In the orientation of DWV, the cooperative positions have recently played almost no role". What positions are these?
Fiss: To put it figuratively: We have drifted apart. A development that is quite similar to the course of an interpersonal relationship. At some point you realise that it no longer makes sense to live together under one roof. Individual reasons for this are difficult to pinpoint. It has been a longer process that ultimately led to separation or, in the case of the cooperative group, to leaving the German Winegrowers' Association.