1st Edition

German Football History, Culture, Society

Edited By Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young Copyright 2006
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    This topical book provides unprecedented analysis of football's place in post-war and post-reunification Germany.

    The expert team of German and British contributors offers wide-ranging perspectives on the significance of football in German sporting and cultural life, showing how it has emerged as a focus for an expression of German national identity and pride in the post-war era.

    Some of the themes examined include:

    • footballing expressions of local, regional and national identity
    • ethnic dynamics, migrant populations and Europeanization
    • German football’s commercial economy
    • women’s football.

    Key moments in the history of German football are also explored, such as the victories in 1954, 1972 and 1990, the founding of the Bundesliga, and the winning bid for the 2006 World Cup.

     

    Contents

     

    Notes on contributors

     

    Preface German football: history, culture, society

    ALAN TOMLINSON AND CHRISTOPHER YOUNG

     

    Chapter 1 German football: a cultural history

    WOLFRAM PYTA

     

    Chapter 2 Germany versus Austria: football, urbanism and national identity

    ROMAN HORAK

     

    Chapter 3 A tale of two Germanys: football culture and national identity in the GDR

    MARKUS HESSELMANN AND ROBERT IDE

     

    Chapter 4 Soccer hooliganism in the German Democratic Republic

    MIKE DENNIS

     

    Chapter 5 Turkish immigrants in German amateur football

    DIRK HALM

     

    Chapter 6 The future of football is female!? – on the past and present of women’s football in Germany

    GERTRUD PFISTER

     

    Chapter 7 The Europeanisation of German football

    ALEXANDER BRAND AND ARNIE NIEMANN

     

    Chapter 8 German football – a media-economic survey: the impact of the Kirchmedia company on football and television in Germany

    LOTHAR MIKOS

     

    Chapter 9 A game of nations? Football and national identities

    SANNA INTHORN

     

    Chapter 10 Fandom and sub-cultural media

    JURGEN SCHWIER

     

    Chapter 11 Selling sex or dealing with history? German football in literature and film and the quest to normalize the nation

    PAUL COOKE AND CHRISTOPHER YOUNG

     

    Chapter 12 Germany 1974: on the eve of the goldrush

    ALAN TOMLINSON

     

    Chapter 13 All around the Globus: a foretaste of the German football imagination c.2006

    ERIK EGGERS

     

    Chapter 14 German football: theatre, performance, memory. A philosophical epilogue

    GUNTER GEBAUER

    Biography

    Professor Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies in the Sport and Leisure Cultures research group at the University of Brighton, UK and Head of the Chelsea School Research Centre. He is the former editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and author of Badfellas – FIFA Family at War.

    Dr Christopher Young is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German, University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Pembroke College. He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is the author of seven books on German language, literature and culture.

    'German Football...should be required reading for all serious football-as-sociology pundits ahead of this year's World Cup.' - Andrew Baker, telegraph.co.uk, 5 Januray 2006