Business Lunch
Q&A with Alex Boden, Producer and Executive Producer of Film and TV
In a live online conversation on Tuesay, 19th November, Alex Boden will speak to the Goethe-Institut London about his career and his experiences with German and in Germany and answer your students’ questions.
Please register via the form below. This event is free of charge, but we ask teachers to collect questions in German or English from their pupils and share those with the Goethe-Institut before the event. This way, Alex can answer those questions live and enter into conversation with your students.
Download the Guideline for teachers including teaching materials and recommendations on how to prepare for the event:
Zielgruppe: Y9 - Y13
About Alex Boden
I really enjoyed learning languages when I was young. One of the many reasons was that it meant that I could speak to millions more people around the world, if I spoke their language - so it was a no-brainer, really, wanting to learn French, then German! Languages have been an absolute gamechanger for me and my career. They have helped to open doors where I might not otherwise have had great opportunities.
I studied German and Drama at Exeter University, which turned out to be the best place for both subjects. Most exciting for me was that I was able to go out to Berlin for a year where I worked as an English Assistant Teacher at a German school, as well as working on some really exciting theatre projects that might never have come my way, if I was working in the UK.
It was thirteen years after graduating when I was back in Berlin, now using my drama as well as cultural and language skills on film productions including ‘The Reader’ which won Kate Winslet an Oscar and a few years after that, producing the film ‘Cloud Atlas’. That’s when I felt that all the hard work learning German had really delivered.
Among other things, learning German encouraged me to take bold risks and to enjoy challenges, to live and work overseas and to take new adventures in my stride! I have recently been working in Japan, producing the TV series "Tokyo Vice" and have started learning Japanese.
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