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Football Nation: the playing fields of German culture, history, and society

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Klappentext: Over the past century, the impact of football on Germany has been manifold, influencing the arts, political debates, and even contributing to the construction of cultural memories and national narratives. Football Nation analyses the game’s fluid role in shaping and reflecting German so...

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Other Authors: Dawson, Rebeccah (Editor) , Heinsohn, Bastian (Editor) , Knabe, Oliver (Editor) , McDougall, Alan (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford Berghahn 2023
Series:Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association 25
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1515/9781800736825
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte 1871-2022
Kulturbeziehungen
Fußball
Deutschland
Kultur
Sozialgeschichte 1871-2022
Künste
Politik
Gesellschaft
Rezeption
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Author Notes:edited by Rebeccah Dawson, Bastian Heinsohn, Oliver Knabe and Alan McDougall
Table of Contents:
  • Inhaltsverzeichnis: Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION Historical Perspectives on the German Football Nation
  • PART I A Border-Crossing Game: German Football and International Cultural Exchange
  • CHAPTER 1 The Introduction and Integration of Football into a Divided Society: Conservative and Socialist Football in Germany from 1871 to 1933
  • CHAPTER 2 Fußball Internationale Toward a Global History of GDR Football
  • CHAPTER 3 Local Fans, Global Players: Contradictions in Postindustrial Football
  • PART II Race, Exclusion, and Otherness in German Football
  • CHAPTER 4 Willy Meisl’s German Football Nation: Internationalism, Austrian Patriotism, and Jewish Pride in Interwar Sports Writing
  • CHAPTER 5 Commodified, Corrupted, and Capitalist: Combatting the Modern Athletic Machine in Melchior Vischer’s Fußballspieler und Indianer
  • CHAPTER 6 Controlling Definitions: Racism and German Identity after Mesut Özil’s National Team Resignation
  • PART III Forming Identities through Football: Class and Gender in German Culture
  • CHAPTER 7 The Making of a Football Myth: Memory, Masculinity, and the Media
  • CHAPTER 8 A Gendered Network of Double Binds in Joachim Hasler’s Football Musical: Don’t Cheat, Darling!
  • CHAPTER 9 From GDR-Emigrant to Third-Class Citizen: Football Stadiums, Social Divides, and East German Identities in Andreas Gläser’s BFC is to Blame for the Wall
  • PART IV The Politics Beyond the Pitch: German Fandom and Spectatorship
  • CHAPTER 10 Educating the Spectator: Athlete-Fan Interplay in the Early German Football Film Th e Eleven Devils by Zoltan Korda
  • CHAPTER 11 Antisemitic Metaphors in German Football Fan Culture Directed at RB Leipzig
  • CHAPTER 12 One Foot on the Ball and the Other Nearly in Jail? Analyzing the Role of Social Work in the Interaction of Supporters, Police, and the Media in Hamburg Football
  • CHAPTER 13 Countering Contingency: Aesthetics and Fan Codetermination in German Football
  • CONCLUSION “Fußball ist alles!” Football’s Importance in German Society
  • INDEX

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