Football Nation

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:Sport—German Journal Watch.

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 Fans—Global Players: Contradictions in Post-Industrial Football

Stephan Schindler



Part II: Race, Exclusion, and Otherness in German Football



Chapter 4. Willy Meisl’s “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 Vischer’s Football Players and Indians

Rebeccah Dawson



Chapter 6. Controlling Definitions: Racism and German Identity after Mesut Özil’s 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 Hasler’s Football Musical “Don’t Cheat, Darling!”

Kaleigh Bangor



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

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!” Football’s Importance in German Society

Timm Beichelt