"The studio door opened, and in walked a lanky young fellow with big eyes and a broad grin. He had no media background yet, but he had a positive attitude. Ironic and friendly at the same time. That was in the summer of 2008.
That hasn't changed over the years. Even at the last "official" meeting at the beginning of May, the question came up as to how I actually managed to stay with the club for so long... Again, the irony and the wink...
The photo requests of everyone involved with him among his trophies were taken before he asked again whether we really had everything. He was leaving now and would then be gone...
It's to be feared that he's really gone now, from the Bundesliga. Not from memory... The whole boy - a pleasure!" Christian Kaufmann, photographer.
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Photographer Christian Kaufmann