German football : history, culture, society / edited by Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomlinson, Alan.

Young, Christopher, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Social aspects--Germany.

Soccer.

Soccer--Germany--History.

Nationalism and sports--Germany.

Nationalism and sports.

History.

Soccer--Social aspects.

Germany.

Physical Description:

xiv, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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.

Contents:

German football : a cultural history / Wolfram Pyta

Germany versus Austria : football, urbanism, and national identity / Roman Horak

A tale of two Germanys : football culture and national identity in the German Democratic Republic / Markus Hesselmann and Robert Ide

Soccer hooliganism in the German Democratic Republic / Mike Dennis

Turkish immigrants in German amateur football / Dirk Halm

The future of football is female!? : on the past and present of women's football in Germany / Gertrud Pfister

The Europeanization of German football / Alexander Brand and Arne Niemann

German football : a media-economic survey : the impact of the KirchMedia company on football and television in Germany / Lothar Mikos

A game of nations? : football and national identities / Sanna Inthorn

Fandom and subcultural media / Jürgen Schwier

Selling sex or dealing with history? : German football in literature and film and the quest to normalize the nation / Paul Cooke and Christopher Young

Germany 1974 : on the eve of the goldrush / Alan Tomlinson

All around the globus : a foretaste of the German football imagination c.2006 / Erik Eggers

German football : theatre, performance, memory : a philosophical epilogue / Gunter Gebauer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415351952

0415351960

0203698681

OCLC:

60323413

Publisher Number:

9780415351959 (hbk.)

9780415351966 (pbk.)