2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of the Modern German Play Movement of Braunschweig
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22700628
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Sports science
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| Research Institution | Meiji University (2011-2013)
Rissho University (2010) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | サッカー / フースバル / 体操遊戯 / コンラート・コッホ / トゥルネン＝スポーツ抗争 / 国民自由党 / 国民祭 / 教養市民 |
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| Research Abstract |
Adherents of the Turnen(gymnastics) movement in latter 19th century Germany rejected sports as being culturally foreign. Yet in the town of Braunschweig, an organized sports movement began as part of an initiative to revive the indigenous German play movement.
This study looks at the invention of the first German vocabulary relating to the game of football and the creation of a base for the diffusion of sports, both which came out of the development of the Braunschweig play movement. It then elucidates how the political and economic vulnerability of Germany's Bildungsbuergertum, which was behind the play movement, saw sports incorporated into pre-First World War nationalism.
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