German Football: History, Culture, Society

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-02-13
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors vii
Preface: German football: history, culture, society xi
German football: a cultural history
1(22)
Wolfram Pyta
Germany versus Austria: football, urbanism and national identity
23(13)
Roman Horak
A tale of two Germanys: football culture and national identity in the German Democratic Republic
36(16)
Markus Hesselmann
Robert Ide
Soccer hooliganism in the German Democratic Republic
52(21)
Mike Dennis
Turkish immigrants in German amateur football
73(20)
Dirk Halm
The future of football is female!? On the past and present of women's football in Germany
93(34)
Gertrud Pfister
The Europeanization of German football
127(16)
Alexander Brand
Arne Niemann
German football -- a media-economic survey: the impact of the KirchMedia company on football and television in Germany
143(12)
Lothar Mikos
A game of nations? Football and national identities
155(13)
Sanna Inthorn
Fandom and subcultural media
168(13)
Jurgen Schwier
Selling sex or dealing with history? German football in literature and film and the quest to normalize the nation
181(23)
Paul Cooke
Christopher Young
Germany 1974: on the eve of the goldrush
204(21)
Alan Tomlinson
All around the Globus: a foretaste of the German football imagination, c. 2006
225(12)
Erik Eggers
German football: theatre, performance, memory. A philosophical epilogue
237(12)
Gunter Gebauer
Index 249

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