“My hero of the evening!” – Math Ace admits to “Who wants to be a millionaire?” away

Konrad Krugs performing in “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” can be described perfectly in one word: superior. Monday evening therefore starts promisingly for the candidate: although it took him ten full seconds, he was the only one who knew the selection question.

Krug is a mathematician and a journalist – what a combination! Günther Jauch is also impressed. And wants to know whether he would therefore work strategically and would therefore be a good candidate. Krug – who is one of the few to choose the ‘Schisser variant’, so only three jokers, for protection of 16,000 euros – says he has practiced a bit with the app ‘Who wants to become a millionaire?’. But otherwise he is not a great strategist.

Hard to imagine given his academic career: Krug was so good at math that he got to write his Abitur thesis in 9th grade. In 5th grade he learned something from Pythagoras “that you can use it to calculate distances”. Somehow that interested him.

However, Krug was only four years ahead in math, otherwise he was a relatively average student – but in 9th grade he had already failed once before.

Speaking of sitting still: Krug did that for quite a long time on this Monday night. Only at 16,000 euros does he need the fifty-fifty joker, the man from Berlin can deduce the 64,000 and the difficult 125,000 euros questions himself.

And so Krug confidently plays up to the 500,000 euro question – without embarrassing stories, without slips of the tongue and without unpleasant blocking moments.

The one area in his life where the mathematician lacks any sovereignty is his weight. Krug describes himself as having a “yoyo-changing effect”. With his 1.96 meter height, he has already weighed 150 and then again 85 kilos. Now it is about 115 kilos. “And how did you always manage to do that?” wants Gunther Jauch to know. “Iron discipline and then no more.”

When he only had to throw in the towel when he was asked the question of 500,000 euros – and after confident thinking, puzzling, calling – Konrad Krug said very modestly: “Sometimes the world is not meant for heroes!”

And Jauch, for his part, probably the most confident of all moderators, responds, “Oh, you know what, you’re my hero tonight!”