INTRODUCTION Historical Perspectives on the German Football Nation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION Historical Perspectives on the German Football Nation 1
4. PART I A Border-Crossing Game: German Football and International Cultural Exchange
5. CHAPTER 1 The Introduction and Integration of Football into a Divided Society: Conservative and Socialist Football in Germany from 1871 to 1933 23
6. CHAPTER 2 Fußball Internationale Toward a Global History of GDR Football 43
7. CHAPTER 3 Local Fans, Global Players: Contradictions in Postindustrial Football 62
8. PART II Race, Exclusion, and Otherness in German Football
9. CHAPTER 4 Willy Meisl’s German Football Nation: Internationalism, Austrian Patriotism, and Jewish Pride in Interwar Sports Writing 83
10. CHAPTER 5 Commodified, Corrupted, and Capitalist: Combatting the Modern Athletic Machine in Melchior Vischer’s Fußballspieler und Indianer 102
11. CHAPTER 6 Controlling Definitions: Racism and German Identity after Mesut Özil’s National Team Resignation 119
12. PART III Forming Identities through Football: Class and Gender in German Culture
13. CHAPTER 7 The Making of a Football Myth: Memory, Masculinity, and the Media 143
14. CHAPTER 8 A Gendered Network of Double Binds in Joachim Hasler’s Football Musical: Don’t Cheat, Darling! 164
15. 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 181
16. PART IV The Politics Beyond the Pitch: German Fandom and Spectatorship
17. CHAPTER 10 Educating the Spectator: Athlete-Fan Interplay in the Early German Football Film Th e Eleven Devils by Zoltan Korda 201
18. CHAPTER 11 Antisemitic Metaphors in German Football Fan Culture Directed at RB Leipzig 218
19. 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 240
20. CHAPTER 13 Countering Contingency: Aesthetics and Fan Codetermination in German Football 258
21. CONCLUSION “Fußball ist alles!” Football’s Importance in German Society 276
22. INDEX 295