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The People's Game
From star players to rioting fans, The People's Game examines how football shaped the history of communist East Germany.
Becoming East German
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Nineteen
The Blizzard is a quarterly football publication, put together by a cooperative of journalists and authors, its main aim to provide a platform for top-class writers from across the globe to enjoy the space and the freedom to write what they like about the football stories that matter to them. Issue Nineteen contains 22 articles in 11 different sections: ---------------- Mourinho ---------------- * The Devil's Party, by Jonathan Wilson - The manager, his methods, and why it always goes wrong in the third season ---------------- Poetry ---------------- * The Unknown Football Fan, by Craig Smith * A Striker Fires Wide, by Craig Smith ---------------- Memories ---------------- * This Sporting Ha...
Football Politics in Central Europe and Eastern Europe
Football in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe has long functioned as a carrier of the three “non-normal” socio-political drivers that were effective below the surface of modernity, including the official self-image of European political systems, since the second half of the 20th century: Tribal Politics, Imaginal Politics, and Contextual Politics. All three are trends that are currently surfacing prominently on an international and global level. Long before the return of the now proverbial “Political Tribes” by the means of populisms and neo-authoritarianisms in societies around the world, football in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe worked as a subconscious vehicle of group insti...
The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics
This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 case studies covering five continents. It provides a detailed picture of this relation in a wide number of European, American, African, and Asian states, as well as a comparative assessment of football in a global perspective, thus combining the general and the local. It examines themes such as the political origins of football in the studied country, the historical club rivalries, the political aspects of football as a sports spectacle, and the contemporary issues linked to the political use of football. By following the same structure with each study, the volume allows for the comparison between largely investigated cases and cases that have seldom been addressed. The Handbook will be of use particularly to students and scholars in the fields of sport studies, political science and sociology, as well as cultural studies, anthropology and leisure studies.
Seltsam unverbunden
Sport war im »Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat« DDR ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Alltags vieler Millionen Menschen und war dort sogar in der Verfassung verankert. Jan Kleinmanns zeigt in seiner quellengesättigten Studie, wie Sportgemeinschaften in der DDR eigene, verkapselte Teilöffentlichkeiten entwickelten, die als geschlossene Einheiten gegenüber zentralen Institutionen auftraten. Innerhalb dieser Gruppen blieben Bekenntnisse zur Entwicklung der sozialistischen Gesellschaft oftmals Lippenbekenntnisse. Mit der Untersuchung dieser Begebenheiten legt die Studie Mechanismen des Nebeneinanders von Partei und Gesellschaft in der DDR offen und zieht Schlüsse für die ostdeutsche Nachkriegsdiktatur, die weit über den Bereich Sport hinausgehen.
25 Years Berlin Republic
25 Years Berlin Republic takes stock of the state of German unification a quarter of a century into the ongoing project that is the Berlin Republic. Thirteen scholars, artists, and public figures from diverse backgrounds document the changing hopes and fears, successes and challenges, that face the republic as it negotiates its way through the 21st century. Taking up a broad assessment of German culture ranging from sports to religion, painting to map-making, film to foreign policy, these studies combine personal experiences with critical analysis in order to understand the Berlin Republic today. The resulting portrait reveals a complex, diverse, and constantly-developing Republic that continues to ask the same essential question that has been at the center of discussions since the dramatic events that gave birth to the Republic: "Sind wir ein Volk?"
Origins and Birth of the Europe of football
‘The Europe of football’ is one of the aspects of the history of European integration that has generated the smallest amount of academic research. However, the successive invention of sporting traditions with a European calling since the Belle Epoque, followed by the creation of various European cups during the interwar constitute at the same time an original form of ‘Europe-building’ and a lasting contribution to the creation of a European space and spirit. The target of the authors in this book is to look back on the genesis of European competitions that leads to the creation of the European cups now organised by UEFA. It also seeks to show how football has made possible the settin...
Im Schatten des Spiels
Kaum war die großartige Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft vorbei und Gastgeber Deutschland als weltoffenes Land gepriesen, so zeigten unübersehbar auch hässliche Seiten im Fußball: gewaltsame Rangeleien unter "Fans", rassistische Schmähungen gegenüber dunkelhäutigen Spielern, antisemitische Pöbeleien. Autor Ronny Blaschke schildert ausführlich die jüngere Entwicklung in Deutschland, beleuchtet aber auch die Szene der Hooligans in England und anderen europäischen Ländern. Eindrucksvoll dokumentiert er auch die Situation der Opfer, beispielsweise eines nigerianischen Spielers in Leipzig, der Spieltag für Spieltag mit Anfeindungen zu kämpfen hat. Zugleich fragt Blaschke nach den Ursachen des Phänomens, etwa im ausführlichen Porträt eines ehemaligen deutschen "Hools", der kritisch seine Vergangenheit reflektiert. Und er prüft die Gegenstrategien von Fanprojekten und Ordnungskräften, wobei insbesondere das Vorgehen der Polizei auch bei friedlichen Fans nicht selten auf Kritik stößt. Eine längst fällige Betrachtung von Gewalt im Fußball, die engagiert argumentiert, ohne übertriebene Horrorszenarien zu zeichnen.
Dislocation and Reorientation
DISLOCATION AND REORIENTATION: Exile, Division and the End of Communism in German Culture and Politics -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Aus: Machwerk oder Das Schichtbuch des Flick von Lauchhammer -- A polso teso. Portrait der Poesie Volker Brauns -- Political dislocation and poetic reorientation in Volker Braun's Bodenloser Satz -- 'Totentänze': Volker Braun's late poems - Postscripts on the end of utopia -- Überlegungen zu Volker Brauns Rede zur Verleihung des Schiller-Gedächtnispreises 1992: 'Ist das unser Himmel? Ist das unsre Hölle?' -- Die deutschsprachige Exilpresse und das Attentat des 20. Juli 1944 -- 'The fog of peace and war': German exiles in postcolonial Anglophone wr...
