Career
He was one of the few reporters spending time as an embedded journalist with German military snipers in Afghanistan. After sleeping in the apartment of the renowned Salafist preacher Sven Lau and spending a couple of days with him, Würger had to flee the country for security reasons. In 2014 he received the Hansel-Mieth-Preis for a story about an old boxer.
In 2010 Würger was nominated by Medium Magazin as on of the „Top 30 Journalists under 30".