Takis Würger & Florian Christl – "Für Polina" in concert

In the organizer's words:

Musical reading by and with Takis Würger & Florian Christl - live on the big & beautiful stages of the country in fall 2025.

"Für Polina", the latest novel by Takis Würger (Der Club, Stella), went straight to number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list in spring 2025 and is still in the top 3 a good quarter of a year later! "Für Polina" was also voted the favorite book of booksellers in German-speaking Switzerland in 2025.

In "Für Polina", Takis Würger tells the story of Hannes Prager, who falls in love with the girl Polina at the age of 14. To show her his love, the wondrously talented boy composes a melody that encompasses all of Polina's longings and desires.

But his life takes an unforeseen turn, Hannes stops playing the piano and he and Polina go their separate ways. After years of feeling nothing but emptiness, Hannes realizes that he must find Polina again. And the only thing he can reach her with is her melody.

The live contributions of Takis Würger & Florian Christl complement each other extremely harmoniously in this superbly staged musical reading.
The atmospherically dense interplay of reading & music - including works by Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven & others from the classical and neo-classical periods - turns the touching story of this fascinating novel into an acoustic experience.

Takis Würger lives in Berlin. He grew up in Wennigsen am Deister. After graduating from high school, he worked as a volunteer in a development aid project in Peru. He completed a traineeship at the Munich Abendzeitung and attended the Henri Nannen School. He then joined Der Spiegel as an editor. He also studied at Cambridge University (Human, Social & Political Science).
Würger has reported from Afghanistan, Egypt, Mexico and Ukraine, among other places. He has won various journalism awards, including the German Reporter Award and the CNN Journalist Award.
In 2017, he was awarded the Debutant Prize at lit.Cologne for "Der Club", as well as the Aspekte Literature Prize from ZDF.
His complex work "Stella" from 2019 was named Book of the Month by NDR, among others, and the Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung praised the novel as "credible and unsparing".