Spiegel bestseller and book prize winner 2023: “Real Age” belongs on every reading list. Tonio Schachinger won the German Book Prize 2023 with his novel “Echtzeitalter” The setting for Schachingers’ “ real-time strategy game “Age of Empires 2” is an elite Viennese boarding school where the children of the nobility, the rich and the super-rich spend their days.

At just 15, Till Kokorda was the youngest top 10 player in the world, without his mother or other classmates having any idea.