Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany
This book presents the first in-depth study of the German boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) as a national hero and representative figure in Germany between the 1920s and the present day. It explores the complex relationship between sport, culture, politics and national identity and draws on a century of journalism, film, visual art, life writing and fiction. Detailed chapters analyse Schmeling's emergence as an icon in the Weimar Republic, his association with America, his celebrity status in the Third Reich, and his rivalry with Joe Louis as a focus for an extraordinary propaganda and ideological contest. The book also examines how Schmeling's…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-51136-8
- EAN: 9783319511368
- Produktnummer: 24159786
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 329 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'020 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
- Abbildungen: 9 schwarz-weiße und 2 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Jon Hughes is Senior Lecturer in German and Cultural Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of a monograph on the journalist and novelist Joseph Roth, and has also published on topics including the 'New Objectivity', mountaineering in Austrian culture and the representation of sport.
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