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Film: The Boy Is Gone: East Belgium in the 1940s

Cinematek Rue (Rue Baron Horta 9, Brüssel

A little boy dreams of soaring through the skies as a pilot. He joins a gliding club where he spends his free time, while all around him in Europe, a war rages whose full scale he can hardly grasp. As a child, director Christoph Bohn discovers a photo of his father in uniform inside a […]

Reading and discussion with Tonio Schachinger, Echtzeitalter (German Book Prize 2023; Rowohlt Verlag)

European School Brussels II Avenue Oscar Jespers 75

An elitist Viennese boarding school, housed in the former summer residence of the Habsburgs, the class teacher an antiquated and despotic man. What can one learn from life there? Till Kokorda can’t do much with either the canon or the snobbish environment. His passion is gaming, specifically the real-time strategy game Age of Empires 2. […]

Reading and discussion with Tonio Schachinger, Echtzeitalter (German Book Prize 2023; Rowohlt Verlag)

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege Plus à Anvers (École-PASCH) Frankrijklei 91, Antwerp

An elitist Viennese boarding school, housed in the former summer residence of the Habsburgs, the class teacher an antiquated and despotic man. What can one learn from life there? Till Kokorda can’t do much with either the canon or the snobbish environment. His passion is gaming, specifically the real-time strategy game Age of Empires 2. […]

Review of the week for German 2024