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The people's game : football, state and society in East Germany /
"Sport in East Germany is commonly associated with the systematic doping that helped to make the country an Olympic superpower. Football played little part in this controversial story. Yet, as a hugely popular activity that was deeply entwined in the social fabric, it exerted an influence that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Illustrations; A football map of the GDR; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Past and present in East German football; Revising a history of failure?; GDR football in historiographical context; German football before 1945: a brief history; Football in East Germany before 1945; How football was (dis- )organised in the GDR; Sources, structures, and arguments; 2 Football reconstructed; Football at 'zerohour'; Early football competitions; Football of the new type?; Planitz versus the plan.
- Sealing footballs division; Between the lines: reflections on football in the SBZ; Part I Players; Made in East Germany: football as Leistungssport; 3 Footballers lives; Gilded elite? Playing football under communism; Heroes like us: footballers in profile; Footballers and politics; Paid to play: money and GDR football; Life at the top: Hans-Jürgen Kreische and Axel Tyll; 4 The national team; Beautiful losers; Learning to win? GDR football between East and West; Us against us? The 'Sparwassergoal'; Decline in the individualist age? The national team in the 1980s.
- Unqualified failure? Conclusions on the Auswahl; 5 Club football at home and away; Thinking local, acting local; Delegating power: transfers and local politics; A case study in Resistenz: Chemie Leipzig; East Germany and a Europe of football; Not for export? GDR clubs in European competition; Bitter cup: encounters with West Germany; Three stripes good, two stripes better?; 6 Football and the Stasi; 'Death to the traitor'; Football's tyranny of intimacy; Footballers and the West in the 1950s; Footballers and Republikflucht after 1961; The Weber and Müller cases.
- The uncoupling of football and the Stasi; Part II Fans; Watching football under socialism; 7 Spectatorship in the Ulbricht era; Football and the Stalinist aesthetic; (Re- )location: defending local interests in the 1950s; Unsocialist spectatorship: fans behaving badly; Armchair fans: the rise of mediated spectatorship; 8 Fan culture in the Honecker era; Another side of East German youth; Around the wall: encounters with football in the West; 'Dear comrades': football petitions; 'Three cheers for our champions' 96 Fan mail to Dynamo Dresden; The state and football subculture: fan clubs.
- 9 The 'wild East': hooliganism in the GDR; Fighting socialism: fan disorder behind the Iron Curtain; The state and 'real existing' hooliganism; The hooligan in profile; Hooliganism and the state of socialism; 10 'Crooked champions': the BFC problem; 'Together it works': a football conspiracy theory; BFC in the lean years; 'The damned right to watch honest sport': 25 petitions on BFC; State responses to the BFC controversy; BFC and (the decline of) the GDR; Part III The peoples game; 'King football': the game as Massensport; 11 Football and everyday life; The view from the pitch.