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Uta Andrea Balbier
(b.1974) is a historian and researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research in the research unit "Theory and history of violence".
Eurozine Articles
"Zu Gast bei Freunden"
How the Federal Republic of Germany learned to take sport seriously
Haunted by memories of 1936, West Germany had tried to keep politics out of sport throughout the 1950s. In 1972, however, the ideologically motivated sporting policy of the GDR prompted a return to the use of the Olympic Games for national self-projection. [more]
09.06.2006