Stadtteilbibliothek Bad Cannstatt: Michaela Maria Müller liest aus „Klinsmann – ein Briefroman“

This summer is the men's World Cup. In the library on the Neckar, we take a look back: a girl in the Bavarian province was deeply in love in 1987. With Jürgen Klinsmann, of all people, who was still at VfB Stuttgart at the time. An entertaining evening full of memories of soccer, everyday life and pop culture in the late 1980s!

"Klinsi was my first love, in 1987 in the village. Rick Astley and Bono didn't even need to unpack. I liked everything about Klinsi: the shy look, the baker's blonde hair, the golf convertible that I would have loved a lift in, his modesty, which I assumed was in his smile, and of course his forward play on the pitch. Yet I was an FC Bayern fan and he played for VfB Stuttgart.

Being a soccer fan as a girl led to isolation. It was the boys' sport and other girls weren't interested in it. I started writing letters to Klinsi. No one else listened to me. My life began to fall into place."

Müller's novel is a declaration of love for being an outsider and the discovery of how old loves still shine. Soccer, everyday life, pop culture - an entertaining evening full of memories of the late eighties! Limited seating, please book in advance.

Michaela Maria Müller, born in Dachau, grew up on a farm among rhubarb stalks and raspberry bushes. After finishing secondary school, training as a publisher and working as a bookseller in New York, Munich and Berlin, she studied history and political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her fan status: unaffiliated (no club), ex-FC Bayern (ah, yes) and ex-Union Berlin (because cardless). She has written three novels so far, most recently "Zonen der Zeit" (Quintus-Verlag, 2024). She also writes essays and portraits for ZEIT Online, Merkur, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Europäisches Denken and taz.die tageszeitung.