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German Literature and World Soccer

http://germanistik.blogspot.com

Introduce a work of German literature and comment on events in the world of soccer - erm, football. How's that for a mismatch? For any fan of the beautiful game, but especially for anyone facing a sizable reading list in German studies. I hope it helps with keeping works straight. This strange blog sticks to canonical texts and mixes them with soccer news.

• Added on: May 17th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Brains
• Listed in: Books Soccer
• Tags: soccer literature german Germany german literature germanistik

Recent Posts

• On Hiatus

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 22:18

  This blog is on hiatus. How weakly typical of a blog by an anonymous writer who gets two to three visitors per day! Recently I became really busy: I'm translating three articles with deadlines for Routledge Press and Columbia University Press, I'm su...

• Anatol

  Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 02:35 in fin-de-siècle, eurocup

  I’ve found the forerunner to the modern sitcom: a cycle of seven one-act plays from 1893 by Arthur Schnitzler titled Anatol. In the act “Episode,” our philandering hero Anatol is bitterly disillusioned when Bianca, a circus-girl with whom he ha...

• Money Foibles, Then and Now

  Posted on Sunday October 5th, 2008 at 15:04 in fifa, expressionism

  You know you're actions are insidious when you're prosecuted for financial turpitude in Switzerland. Three Swiss judges in a fraud trial against Fifa ruled that the organization misled detectives during an investigation into the loss of 90 million do...

• Moshing at a Madonna Concert?

  Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 01:37 in philosophy, bundesliga, fin-de-siècle

  Friedrich Nietzsche accomplished two things in his first book, Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik, 1872 (Eng.: The Birth of Tragedy). First, he earned himself a professorship at the age of 25 and, second, he assailed the dominant view ...

• Lending Support to the Red Devils

  Posted on Saturday September 20th, 2008 at 20:55 in premiership, romanticism

  It was eerie to see Manchester United sporting their usual AIG-sponsored jerseys at this week's Champions League match against Villareal. Manchester United (nickname: Red Devils) played a great draw, bore the seal of failure on their illustrious ches...

• All about the Chemistry

  Posted on Saturday September 13th, 2008 at 15:04 in leagues, weimarer klassik

  The transfer window at most international leagues closes in a week and there's a lot of talk about chemistry and loyalty. Should X leave team Y and take a job at Z? Between Y and Z, where is the better chemistry? There is a pledge to pursue “winnin...

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Ferdinand

Great blog. Congratulations mate!!!

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