When 500 Chicago Fire fans greeted Bastian Schweinsteiger at O’Hare in March 2017, little did the German soccer star know he was about to embark on what Swiss author Martin Suter would later call “the happiest time of his life.”
The Tribune recently spoke with Schweinsteiger and Suter about the book. This interview was edited for length and clarity.I was sitting one day with a very good friend of mine on a bench in Munich in a beautiful square called Hofgarten, and I was talking about people who are writing a book. I got some offers before for someone to write a biography about my life but I was never convinced.
It took about five minutes before we had “du.” You don’t have that in English, but in German that is how friends call each other.After 10 minutes, we shook hands even though it was prohibited because of the pandemic and said, “Let’s do this.”OK, bro . But I like to write stories, and the big difference between a novel based on facts of living people and a free-written novel is that I have to check with the people. I cannot just write anything about the living person.I was never convinced about a classic biography. That’s why I liked the idea of Martin so much.
I could not invent the facts like I do in a novel because I cannot write, “They lost the final.” That’s a bit exaggerated, of course, but I have to stick to the facts. Some of them have read the book. It’s interesting. I got many reactions, the word “goose bumps” many times. That “goose bumps” was their answer when they read it.
That’s for me the biggest compliment. But I really have no quality in writing a book. That’s Martin’s job and that’s why he did it so brilliantly. And when you have those kinds of reactions on a plane, on the street, that is what matters, to reach out to the hearts of people.As much as “One of You” is about Bastian Schweinsteiger the footballer, the book in some ways is more about Basti’s relationships with family, friends, teammates and Ana.
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