Language in Routes

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I have a problem using routes and pages with additional data.

According to the example in the documentation I built the following route:

array(
        'pattern' => 'key/(:any)',
        'action'  => function($key) {
                $data = array('key' => $key);
                return array('specials/archive', $data);
            }
    ),

That code produces the following error:

FastCGI: server “/…/…/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi-*-80-mydomain” stderr: PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function code() on null in /…/…/web/kirby/kirby.php on line 526

This is the code snippet that produces the error:

if($this->site()->multilang()) {
  // path for the language file
  $file = $this->roots()->languages() . DS . $this->site()->language()->code() . '.php';
  // load the file if it exists
  if(file_exists($file)) include_once($file);
}

I also tried to build the route as de/key/(:any) or call the page as de/specials/archive without success.
How can I set a language information in a route to make this work?