He will always have produced the most blatant sentence of his life: "Ref, is this the final?" asked the brain-shaken Christoph Kramer in the final. Since the 2014 World Cup, Kramer's brain has recovered and developed well. While still active, the ex-Gladbacher became well-known and popular as a ZDF expert (FAZ: "informative, eloquent, quick-witted [...], always relaxed and unagitated"). Kramer's brain wants more. After training, the eloquent footballer sits down at his desk and writes a novel about 15-year-old footballer Chris during the 2006 summer fairytale. But, watch out! Das Leben fing im Sommer an is not a soccer book, but a coming-of-age novel about first love, friendship and self-discovery. To what extent this Chris is also that Chris, let the soccer-loving Alexander Solloch (NDR Kultur) ask.

The event will take place in the Audimax in the Welfenschloss!