Friendship is a phenomenon to be found in all epochs and cultures. However, the character of the relationship that is understood and practiced as friendship is subject to constant change. In the courtly epic of the High Middle Ages, research has mainly focused on love, whereas f…
Introduction -- Spiritual friendship.
The abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147-1167 explores the spiritual nature of human friendship, defining it as sacramental and as a vehicle for God to transmit his love to all his creatures.
The abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147-1167 explores the spiritual nature of human friendship, defining it as sacramental and as a vehicle for God to transmit his love to all his creatures.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Russland 1915: In einem kleinen Dorf verhindert der sechzehnjährige Bauernsohn Georgi ein Attentat auf ein Mitglied der Zarenfamilie. Zar Nikolaus II. ruft Georgi daraufhin nach St. Petersburg, wo er ihn zum Leibwächter seines einzigen Sohnes ernennt, der nicht nur als Thronfolg…
"Freundschaft kann man genausowenig erklären wie Liebe; doch was wären wir, wenn wir es nicht versuchten?" Boyroth ist mutiger, unangepasster, charismatischer als andere. Und er hat eine schöne, geheimnisvolle Schwester. Als Hanspeter ihm zum ersten Mal begegnet, weiß er, dass s…
