"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 society, and spans its focus on modern German history, from the Wilhelmine era to the early 21st century. Expounding on topics of gender, class, fandom, spectatorship, antisemitism, nationalism, and internationalism, a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars offer a novel approach to understanding the many influences of football throughout its extensive history which until recently has only been available to a German-speaking readership"--
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 society, and spans its focus on modern German history, from the Wilhelmine era to the early 21st century. Expounding on topics of gender, class, fandom, spectatorship, antisemitism, nationalism, and internationalism, a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars offer a novel approach to understanding the many influences of football throughout its extensive history which until recently has only been available to a German-speaking readership.
Arvustused
A fascinating and enjoyable read, Football Nation offers a significant contribution to existing work which examines the place of football in German society using a series of case studies which expertly investigate sociocultural factors influencing German football. Rory Magrath, Solent University
Football Nation is an interesting volume that examines football in Germany from numerous angles and through multiple disciplinary lenses. Many of the opinions expressed in it will elicit intense debate, but it is of a high scholarly standard and will undoubtedly prove a valuable addition to what is already a fairly dense canon Darren OByrne, University of Cambridge
Introduction: Historical Perspectives on the German Football Nation
Rebeccah Dawson, Bastian Heinsohn, Oliver Knabe, And Alan McDougall
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
Thomas Adam
Chapter
2. Fußball Internationale: Toward a Global History of GDR Football
Alan McDougall
Chapter
3. Local FansGlobal Players: Contradictions in Post-Industrial
Football
Stephan Schindler
Part II: Race, Exclusion, and Otherness in German Football
Chapter
4. Willy Meisls German Football Nation: Internationalism,
Austrian Patriotism, and Jewish Pride in Interwar Sports Writing
Kay Schiller
Chapter
5. Commodified, Corrupted and Capitalist: Combatting the Modern
Athletic Machine in Melchior Vischers Football Players and Indians
Rebeccah Dawson
Chapter
6. Controlling Definitions: Racism and German Identity after Mesut
Özils National Team Resignation
Kate Zambon
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
Friederike Emonds
Chapter
8. A Gendered Network of Double Binds in Joachim Haslers Football
Musical Dont Cheat, Darling!
Kaleigh Bangor
Chapter
9. From GDR-Emigrant to Third-Class Citizen: Football Stadiums,
Social Divides, and East German Identities in Andreas Gläsers BFC is to
Blame for the Wall
Oliver Knabe
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 The Eleven Devils by Zoltan Korda
Bastian Heinsohn
Chapter
11. Antisemitic Metaphors in German Football Fan Culture Directed at
RB Leipzig
Pavel Brunssen
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
Fabian Fritz
Chapter
13. Countering Contingency: Aesthetics and Fan Codetermination in
German Football
Alex Holznienkemper
Conclusion: Fußball ist alles! Footballs Importance in German Society
Timm Beichelt
Rebeccah Dawson is Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Kentucky (USA). Currently, she serves as co-editor for a Colloquia Germanica special issue on football in German literature and film and the editor of H:SportGerman Journal Watch.
