German Football

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.

Notes on contributors, vii

Preface: German football: history, culture, society, xi

1 German football: a cultural history, 1
WOLFRAM PYTA

2 Germany versus Austria: football, urbanism and national identity, 23
ROMAN HORAK

3 A tale of two Germanys: football culture and national identity in the German Democratic Republic, 36
MARKUS HESSELMANN AND ROBERT IDE

4 Soccer hooliganism in the German Democratic Republic, 52
MIKE DENNIS

5 Turkish immigrants in German amateur football, 73
DIRK HALM

6 The future of football is female!? On the past and present of women’s football in Germany, 93
GERTRUD PFISTER

7 The Europeanization of German football, 127
ALEXANDER BRAND AND ARNE NIEMANN

8 German football – a media-economic survey: the impact of the KirchMedia company on football and television in Germany, 143
LOTHAR MIKOS

9 A game of nations? Football and national identities, 155
SANNA INTHORN

10 Fandom and subcultural media, 168
JÜRGEN SCHWIER

11 Selling sex or dealing with history? German football in literature and film and the quest to normalize the nation, 181
PAUL COOKE AND CHRISTOPHER YOUNG

12 Germany 1974: on the eve of the goldrush, 204
ALAN TOMLINSON

13 All around the Globus: a foretaste of the German football imagination, c. 2006, 225
ERIK EGGERS

14 German football: theatre, performance, memory. A philosophical epilogue, 237
GUNTER GEBAUER

Index 249