32.1 - Sports and Dictatorship
Special Issue
- Teichler, Hans Joachim: Zur Erinnerungskultur im deutschen Sport nach 1945.
- Teichler, Hans Joachim: Die faschistische Epoche des IOC.
- Reinhart, Kai; Krüger, Michael: Funktionen des Sports im modernen Staat und in der modernen Diktatur.
- Bahro, Berno: Der Sport und seine Rolle in der nationalsozialistischen Elitetruppe SS.
- Peiffer, Lorenz: "... unser Verein ist judenfrei": die Rolle der deutschen Turn- und Sportbewegung in dem politischen und gesellschaftlichen Wandlungsprozess nach dem 30. Januar 1933.
- Riordan, James: The impact of Communism on sport.
- Young, Christopher: Carrying a German flame: the Olympic torch relay and its instrumentalization in the age of 'Ostpolitik'.
- Balbier, Uta Andrea: Die Grenzenlosigkeit menschlicher Leistungsfähigkeit: Planungsgläubigkeit, Konkurrenz und Leistungssportförderung in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR in den 1960er Jahren.
- Wiese, René: Staatsgeheimnis Sport - die Abschottung des Leistungssportsystems der DDR.
- Braun, Jutta: "Very nice, the enemies are gone!": coming terms with GDR sports since 1989/90.
Mixed Issue
- Schulz, Sandra: Film und Fernsehen als Medien der gesellschaftlichen Vergegenwärtigung des Holocaust: die deutsche Erstausstrahlung der US-amerikanischen Fernsehserie 'Holocaust' im Jahre 1979.
- Braun, Jutta: Zeitgeschichte des Sports: der Arbeitsbereich Zeitgeschichte des Sports der Universität Potsdam.
- Diebolt, Claude: Cliometrics or the quantitative projection of social sciences in the past.
- Komlos, John; Meermann, Lukas: The introduction of anthropometrics into development and economics.
- Oertel, Ingrid: Die Einwohnerdatenspeicher der örtlichen Staatsorgane (EDS) und ihre Nutzung im Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen der DDR.
HSR Vol. 32 (2007) No. 1: Special Issue: Sports and Dictatorship
Jutta Braun & René Wiese (Eds.): Sports and Dictatorship: On the Political and Social Role of Sports in the German Dictatorships of the 20th Century
Fun, play, soulfulness – those are some of the spontaneous associations with sports in general. Accordingly, the value of sports as a scientific object often remains underestimated. This is particularly the case for the field of dictatorship research, which sometimes leaves out sport completely. However, sport played an important role both in the self-image and power technologies of modern dictatorships. Today, the sport organizations, to a large extent, even still ignore today the political and social function sport held in National Socialism as well as in GDR’s Socialism. This HSR Special Issue presents various research results regarding the involvement of sports in dictatorial governance and outlines some key issues of scholarly output. The seemingly harmless sports helped the two German dictatorships forcing their internal and external striving for power very effectively. Sports as arena of international competition turned out to be a perfect spot of representation. It is remarkable that FRG regarded GDR‘s way of organizing sports as a emulating example both during the Cold War and after ’89. Therefore, the question is whether sports is able to maintain the self-image as cultural “world of its own” which is neutral towards political circumstances.