In the organizer's words:

Two professionals, two worlds - and yet they have an astonishing amount in common: When soccer world champion Christoph Kramer and former professional cyclist Rick Zabel meet, it's about far more than victories, training and competition. It's about life afterwards - and about the question of how sporting ambition, personal experience and narrative passion can be transformed into literature. Both have recently published books that have topped the bestseller lists: Kramer's Das Leben fing im Sommer an is a warm-hearted coming-of-age novel about friendship, first love and growing up in the shadow of the 2006 World Cup. Zabel's On the Road. Von der Freiheit auf dem Rennrad tells of the ups and downs of a professional career between pain and euphoria, of the search for meaning on two wheels. In conversation, Kramer and Zabel approach the interfaces between performance and ease, success and self-doubt, sport and language. Moderator: Okka Gundel