GDR mass sport as a stubborn social phenomenon?

Competitive sport, state security and doping are the terms that dominated the public and scientific discussion about sport in the GDR for a long time. This work on mass sport breaks with the prevailing patterns of interpretation in several respects. On the one hand, with the area of ​​non-performance-oriented sport, it turns to a research field that is less well known to the public. On the other hand, with the application of the everyday historical approach of the "participatory dictatorship" according to Mary Fulbrook, it promotes a socio-historical opening of GDR sports.

Details

• Title: GDR mass sport as a stubborn social phenomenon?
• Subtitle: On the social function and impact of non-performance-oriented sport in the GDR
• Author: Robert Brichta
• Edition: 1st edition
• University: Humboldt University of Berlin
• Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Gerd Dietrich
• Cover photo: © ADN
  
• Published: 1st edition 12/30/2011
• Subject: Sports Science
• Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
• Product type: Master's thesis
• Language: German
• Binding: Softcover (paperback)
• Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
• Scope: 106 pages
• Condition: New (shrink-wrapped in foil)
• Keywords: BAV complex, company sports community, mass sports, Budo sports, GDR, GDR sports, German Gymnastics and Sports Federation, doping, DSA, DTSB, own sense concept, FDGB, FDJ, free German youth, leisure and recreational sports, cultural society, Competitive sport, mass sport, participatory dictatorship, Rennsteiglauf, state security, Stako, popular sport, decline in values

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 State of research and sources

3 Methodological approach and basic assumptions
3.1 Starting point "Own concept of meaning"
3.2 "Participatory dictatorship" according to Fulbrook

4 Definitions
4.1 Mass, mass and popular sport
4.2 Leisure and recreational sport
4.3 Construct “GDR mass sport”

5 Individual (sensible) social dimensions of sport?
5.1 Buss/Güldenpfennig: Sport as part of cultural society

6 "Permanence" in the "differentiated" sports system?
6.1 On the sporting function of state institutions
6.1.1 The beginnings: FDJ, FDGB and DSA
6.1.2 On the development and function of Stako and DTSB
6.2 Structural anchoring of mass sport
6.2.1 Company sports associations
6.2.2 Society for Sport and Technology (GST)
6.3 Mass sport measures and campaigns
6.3.1 The BAV complex
6.3.2 Example of a running movement
6.3.3 Other mass sporting events
6.4 Fixing medals and mass sport exclusion
6.5 Mass sporting reality – “social niche”?
6.5.1 Rennsteiglauf
6.5. 2 Systemic threats from Budo sports?
6.5.3 Bodybuilding as an example of western decline in values?
6.5.4 (high seas -) sailing

7 Evaluative conclusions
7.1 Answering the main questions
7.2 Criticism and outlook

Bibliography

Author

Robert Brichta, M.A., studied modern/contemporary history, ancient history and political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a focus on GDR (sports) history. This thesis, revised in 2011, forms the basis of his ongoing dissertation project on "Swimming in the GDR" at the Chair of Contemporary Sports History at the University of Potsdam under Prof. Hans-Joachim Teichler.

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