StadionPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-90
G. Armstrong, H. Hognestad
{"title":"Congregations and the Nomads: An Exploration of the Words, Deeds and Journeys of Football Fandom","authors":"G. Armstrong, H. Hognestad","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-90","url":null,"abstract":"Football support is enacted in local cultural contexts encompassed with transnational possibilities. Such support offers arenas for playing with identity and the chance to validate a host of social relations. In what follows analysis attempts to explain the journeys of two Norwegian brothers whose excursions to England to visit as many football grounds as they could required time, funding, motivation and planning. The inquisitive academics who sometimes accompanied them on such sojourns sought a rationale for such movement; what was the motivation? And what inspired the expending of such time and energies? Aware of commentators of the global game often speaking about football support as being akin to a “religion” for its devoted followers, the potential of quasi-religious analysis being applied to football support is a feasible route of inquiry. However, the two brothers that this analysis focuses on did not theorise their pursuit. They acted on their mutual enthusiasm, not without forethought and reflection, but did not feel any need to justify what they did. Their journeys carried the task of completing a collection, but one they set themselves and on a route that suited them. Such movement provoked considerations around notions of pilgrimage; but to what extent was anything sacred and to what potential revelation their journeys were carried out for was hard to realise. Essentially a study of trans-national (sporting) fascination the brothers’ journeys carried both the sense of the routine and the exceptional and were in essence a never-ending celebration of of encounters that in some ways replicated that the brothers similarly enjoyed in their domestic sphere but in some ways was very different.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"88 10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84060129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-57
Andreas Praher
{"title":"Die Rückkehr der „Ehemaligen“: Belastete „Skihelden“ und das nationalsozialistische Erbe im österreichischen Skisport","authors":"Andreas Praher","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-57","url":null,"abstract":"Alpine skiing played a central role in the nation-building process of the Second Austrian Republic. To this day skiing in Austria is a national affair of the highest rank. In post-war-narratives, celebrated stars became untouchable. They served as national heroes and role models for the tourism industry and media. Sport officials and state politicians made it their task to present skiing as the national sport and to emphasize Austria’s hegemonic role in it. In the wake of this operetta-like depiction, myths and male-dominated heroic stories have inscribed themselves in the seemingly innocent white of the snow. In this way, the illusion of a snow-covered idyllic parallel world has been powerfully feeding the “ski nation” Austria for decades – a nation with lost memory. The analysis focuses on the National Socialist legacy in Austrian skiing in the post-war-years and describes how mostly male athletes and sport officials used the victim myth to wash themselves clean. This article shows how the National Socialist past was repressed and reinterpreted.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78396978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-5
Noemi Steuerwald
{"title":"Modest Riding Missies or Victorious Amazons? A Gender Historical Approach to the History of Women’s Equestrianism in Switzerland (1900–1940)","authors":"Noemi Steuerwald","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-5","url":null,"abstract":"Until the beginning of the 20th century, female riders were subject to rigid gender-specific conventions in Swiss equestrian sport. They were expected to ride in the demure yet dangerous side-saddle, to practise the sport in a moderate manner and to dress according to fashion dictates of the time. In addition, women were not allowed to participate in equestrian competitions. However, in the 1920s and 1930s, female riders started to challenge these customs by riding astride in breeches or participating in women-only competitions. From the mid-1920s onwards, they were also admitted in mixed-gender competitions, where their performance was directly comparable to that of male riders. Through their sporting successes, women riders refuted the female gender role and the prevailing gender order in a concrete, visible and measurable way. Despite these interesting insights in relation to the category of gender, women’s equestrianism in Switzerland has received little scholarly attention. This article thus provides the first account of the sport’s development in Switzerland from a cultural, gender and sport historical perspective. Furthermore, by examining how general trends for female liberation are reflected in equestrian sport, the contribution explores the interference between societal gender norms and historical sporting practice.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"124 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88080327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-28
H. Teichler
{"title":"Die deutsch-französischen Sportbeziehungen von 1919 bis 1942","authors":"H. Teichler","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2023-1-28","url":null,"abstract":"The article begins with Germany’s exclusion from the Olympic Games 1920 in Antwerp and 1924 in Paris. Whereas sports relations between Germany and France slowly returned to normal in bourgeois sports, French workers’ sportsmen already in 1922 visited the festival of the workers’ sport federation in Leipzig. After these preliminary remarks the article focuses on the National Socialist era. From 1933 to 1939 France was Germany’s most favoured sport partner. The German Reich used the Olympic Games of 1936 to present itself as a peace-loving country. However, as the occupation of the demilitarized Rhineland on March 7, 1936 shows – between the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (February 6–16) and the Summer Olympics in Berlin (August 1–16) – this was only camouflage. The article enlarges on the initially very positive, but in the end exceedingly critical French press coverage of the Olympic Games in Berlin. The harsh criticism of the “jeux défigurés” provoked the well-known reply by Coubertin, who expressed himself positively about the “Berlin Games illuminated by Hitlerist strength and discipline”. The German-French skiing leisure activities 1938, organized by the Hitlerjugend (HJ), were exploited by the propaganda as a symbol of common understanding. The gestures of understanding culminated in a joint cultural conference in Baden-Baden, where for the first time a bust of Coubertin was set up. In spite of the violation of the Munich Agreement and the occupation of Prague by German troops, several French sports associations came to athletic competitions to Germany in summer 1939. The article ends with the Reichssportführer’s futile attempts to continue sports relations with France during war time.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"272 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76782872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2022-2-173
Amichai Alperovich, Robin Streppelhoff
{"title":"A Short History of (Eretz) Israel’s Way into the International Olympic Movement","authors":"Amichai Alperovich, Robin Streppelhoff","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2022-2-173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2022-2-173","url":null,"abstract":"As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has always followed its own sporting geography differing from political geography, it thereby takes a twofold approach to the states of the world. On the one hand, it recognizes National Olympic Committees (NOCs) which are the only eligible entities to nominate athletes to the Olympic Games. The NOCs are in most cases representatives of internationally recognized states even though they have to be independent from the government according to IOC regulations. On the other hand, the personal members of the IOC represent the IOC in their respective countries. With the example of Mandatory Palestine and, later on, Israel, this paper illustrates in the first part the difficulties organized sport faced in a contested political state in order to get a National Olympic Committee formed and recognized by the IOC. The British Mandate and the (sport) political power struggles within Mandatory Palestine call for a close look at the sources in order to get a clear picture of how the regional NOC came into force. Some books and articles have at least dealt with this topic but some historical works seem to overlook each other due to language barriers. The second part of this paper gives an insight into the quest of Israelis for personal IOC membership. In the cases shown it becomes clear that dealing with IOC membership is also dealing with politics.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80521732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-91
P. Weiss, J. Meyer
{"title":"Getting on the Good Foot and Showing True Colors: Football, Diversity, and Nation-Building in France and Germany, 1950–2018","authors":"P. Weiss, J. Meyer","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-91","url":null,"abstract":"In Germany and France, football federations and clubs have now affirmed for decades their determination to fight racism and social or ethnic discrimination. Doing so, they persistently proclaim their faith in football’s integrative virtues, in its capacity to transform diversity into a force and its considerable contribution to nation-building. Yet, for most sports historians and sociologists, the number of studies required to draw robust conclusions on such a complex issue has not yet been produced. The present paper aims to question a few prevailing representations and sheds light on the advantages of a French-German comparative socio-historical approach considering a chronogical period going from 1950 to 2018. Its initial part is dedicated to a necessary liminary step: the definition of a conceptual tool-box. Then, it will focus on professional football. This is certainly the aspect of football retaining most of the attention of both the general public and the scholars when refering to the neighboring country. The final part of this article breaks down specific participation modalities of ethnic and national minorities in the system of football as a popular leisure sport in France and Germany. It thus explores to what extent one may mention a crucial influence of national integration and citizenship models in this context.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80144386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-110
Kristoffer Klammer
{"title":"Entscheidungsautoritäten und elementare Akteure des „Weltsports“: Pfade einer Kulturgeschichte der Schiedsrichter","authors":"Kristoffer Klammer","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-110","url":null,"abstract":"These days, referees and umpires are considered to be indispensable protagonists in modern sport. But despite their crucial significance for sport, historical scholarship has so far hardly considered their history. This article demonstrates why it is worth dealing with the cultural history of referees and umpires, in what ways this can be done, and what insights such an approach potentially offers. Empirically, the article focuses on football and tennis, while advocating the combination of questions of the history of sports with those pertaining to general history. It suggests several paths of investigation for this purpose. One finding is that the history of referees and umpires provides insights into the emergence and development of a decision-making authority in modern societies. Here, different forms and variants of the circulation of knowledge and processes of globalisation can be highlighted. In the second part, the article examines an important building block of this story. Here, the formation and entrenchment of international refereeing courses in football between 1948 and the mid-1970s will bring together the article’s programmatic objectives and empirical observations. It will trace which actors led the charge in establishing the courses, how they fostered the global dissemination and standardization of refereeing knowledge, and to what extent they contributed to expanding the boundaries of world football as a global arena of competitive comparison.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79798630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-51
J. O'brien
{"title":"Foreshadowing Apocalypse: Football, Politics, and Culture in Spain, 1920–36","authors":"J. O'brien","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-51","url":null,"abstract":"Spanish football was a barometer for Spanish society between 1920 and 1936. It was a pivotal time for the game as it built on its foundations in the last decade of the nineteenth century to become more politicised within the fabric of Spain’s cultural identity. Critical developments within football took place during an era which began with the struggling Monarchy of Alfonso XIII, and concluded with Spain’s descent into Civil War. Football, Culture, Politics and Violence became intertwined to blemish the game’s reputation and image. The article focusses on four key case studies; the Spanish team’s participation in the Antwerp Olympic Games of 1920; the closure, by Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship, of FC Barcelona’s Les Corts stadium in 1925; the advent of a national, professional football league in 1929; and the last season before the Civil War, 1935-36, when Spain stood on the brink of implosion. They reveal that football is inextricably linked to historically contested notions of Spanish history and political culture, and is a vehicle for the complex representations of alternative nationalisms which lie at the core of Spain’s centre-region dichotomy. The approach of the study is inter-disciplinary, drawing from literature, the arts, history and political ideology to elucidate the complex constructions and representations of the game during a period of seismic change.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"2010 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86274972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-6
H. Teichler
{"title":"Coubertin und Hitler","authors":"H. Teichler","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2022-1-6","url":null,"abstract":"Based on one of Coubertin’s eulogies to Hitler of 8 May 1935, Coubertin’s admiration for Hitler, which has been negated or glossed over by research, is re-examined. A thorough evaluation of the diaries of Carl Diem (Secretary-General of the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936) shows Coubertin’s early and consistently positive interest in the “Führer”. Coubertin saw Germany as the “guardian of Olympism” and suggested “the foundation of an institute for the permanent study of the Olympic Games”, to which he bequeathed “his papers and unfinished projects”. As a result, an International Olympic Institute (IOI) was founded in Berlin on 22 April 1938, which received indirect recognition from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by publishing the Olympic Review as its official communication organ. The article concludes with Carl Diem’s attempts to use Coubertin as propaganda for the Third Reich even after his death by emphasising, among other things, “the military nature of his attitude”.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"2006 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86979589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StadionPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5771/0172-4029-2022-2-195
Lars Amenda
{"title":"„Major Taylor, der schwarze Star!“ Radrennsport in Deutschland um 1900 zwischen Fairness und Rassismus","authors":"Lars Amenda","doi":"10.5771/0172-4029-2022-2-195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2022-2-195","url":null,"abstract":"Marshall Walter „Major“ Taylor (1878–1932) was a massively popular Black US American cyclist around 1900. In late 19th century United States he encountered severe racism in cycling and beyound despite (or because) his obvious sportive talent. In 1899 he won the world championship in sprinting the mile and became a professional track cyclist. In Europe, in France in particular, the cycling world impatiently looked forward for him particpating in races. In 1901 he finally travelled abroad for his first European tour. The paper examines Major Taylor’s appearances in Germany, focusing on the years 1901 to 1903. His first ever start in Europe took place in Berlin-Friedenau on April 8, 1901. Major Taylor was regarded as a huge sensation in the highly popular track cycling around the turn of the 20th century. The influential German cycling newspaper Rad-Welt promoted him and welcomed him personally in their Berlin office after his first races. German rivals such as Willy Arend from Hannover faced the Black US American cyclist with highest respect. Nevertheless, a few riders and parts of the audience showed some racist behavior, including blackfacing before his first ever start. However, the Rad-Welt strongly condemmed unfair tactics against Major Taylor and generally called for fairness. Major Taylor successfully participated in a number of track races in German cities such as Berlin, Hannover, Cologne and others from 1901 to 1903 and remained a sport celebrity in Germany for many years. In the course of the 20th century his fame then waned both in the US and Germany.","PeriodicalId":82798,"journal":{"name":"Stadion","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86903913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}