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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2014
Print publication year:
2014
Online ISBN:
9781107280311

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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 few institutions or pursuits could match. The People's Game examines the history of football from the interrelated perspectives of star players, fans, and ordinary citizens who played for fun. Using archival sources and interviews, it reveals football's fluid role in preserving and challenging communist hegemony. By repeatedly emphasising that GDR football was part of an international story, for example, through analysis of the 1974 World Cup finals, Alan McDougall shows how sport transcended the Iron Curtain. Through a study of the mass protests against the Stasi team, BFC, during the 1980s, he reveals football's role in foreshadowing the downfall of communism.

Reviews

‘A lively and informative history of football in the GDR from the bottom up. By employing Germany's most popular sport as a lens through which to understand the complex workings of power and people, everyday life and culture under the East German dictatorship, McDougall masterfully demonstrates the value of sport for the modern historian.’

Kay Schiller - University of Durham

‘Football may have played little part in making East Germany a European sporting superpower but as Alan McDougall explains in this splendid new book there was a voluntarist ethos to the game that made it dynamic at both regional and national levels. Football mattered because it was popular and it was popular because it mattered. This is the best account of football behind the Iron Curtain since Robert Edelman, written with clarity, style and wit.’

Tony Mason - De Montfort University

'If Olympic sport was the GDR's perfect child, football was its unruly but ever popular sibling. In this extensively researched, stylishly written and highly accessible survey, McDougall has provided an English-speaking audience with its first full-scale account of the people's game in East Germany. The result is an excellent and essential contribution to our understanding of GDR society and the peculiarities of football in the wider transnational context of Cold War sport.'

Christopher Young - University of Cambridge

'… represents an excellent example of research using football to illustrate the colourful ambiguities of everyday life in the GDR.'

David Brentin Source: Central Europe Journal

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Contents

Works cited

Interviews

Tino C., Berlin, 25 May 2011 (Union Berlin fan)

Tim E., Berlin, 25 May 2011 (footballer at Empor Beelitz)

Holger Fuchs, Berlin, 23 May 2011 (DFV functionary)

Jens Genschmar, Dresden, 18 May 2011 (Dynamo Dresden fan)

Heiko H., Toronto, 13 October 2011 (Lokomotive Leipzig fan)

Thomas (Theo) Körner, Berlin, 26 May 2011 (Union Berlin fan)

Klaus L., Berlin, 12 May 2011 (football section leader at Rotation Prenzlauer Berg)

Frank L., Berlin, 25 May 2011 (Union Berlin fan)

Sven S., Berlin, 24 May 2011 (Union Berlin fan)

Heinz Werner, Berlin, 24 May 2011 (coach of Hansa Rostock, Union Berlin, Stahl Brandenburg, FC Karl-Marx-Stadt, and the national team)

Rainer, 29 May 2011* (BFC fan)

Toralf, 29 May 2011* (BFC fan)

Olaf S., 29 May 2011* (BFC fan)

Group interview with BFC fans, Berlin, 29 May 2011

(* Written response to questions sent by email)

Archival sources

Archivgut des Deutschen Fußballverbandes der DDR (DFV)

Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (BLHA)

Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (BStU)

Hauptstaatsarchiv (HStA) Dresden

Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Abteilung Merseburg (LHASA, MER)

Stiftung der Parteien und Massenorganisationen, Bundesarchiv (SAPMO-BArch)

  • DC 4 (Amt für Jugendfragen)

  • DO 1 (Ministerium des Innern)

  • DO 101 (SV Dynamo)

  • DP 3 (Generalstaatsanwalt der DDR)

  • DR 5 (Staatliches Komitee für Körperkultur und Sport bzw. Staatssekretariat für Körperkultur und Sport)

  • DR 8 (Staatliches Komitee für Fernsehen)

  • DR 509 (Büro der Förderung des Sports in den Betrieben)

  • DY 12 (Deutscher Sportausschuß bzw. Deutscher Turn- und Sportverband)

  • DY 24 (Freie Deutsche Jugend)

  • DY 30 (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands)

  • DY 34 (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftbund)

  • DY 41 (Gewerkschaften Medizin)

  • DY 46 (IG Metall)

Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar (ThHStAW)

Union Berlin Archive

Newspapers

Deutsches Sport-Echo (1947, 1953)

Junge Welt (Berliner Ausgabe) (1947, 1948)

Die Neue Fußball-Woche (1949, 1953–7, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1973–4, 1983–6, 1988)

Films

Frauen am Ball (dir. Ted Tetzke, 1988)

Nicht schummeln, Liebling! (dir. Joachim Hasler, 1973)

Und freitags in die ‘Grüne Hölle’ (dir. Ernst Canzler, 1989)

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