Images and politics of the body in the National Socialist era
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Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Vorstellungen und Koerperpolitik im Nationalsozialismus |
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Autor: | Alkemeyer, Thomas |
Erschienen in: | Sport science review |
Veröffentlicht: | 4 (1995), 1, S. 60-90, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 1056-6724 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU199505101261 |
Quelle: | BISp |
TY - JOUR AU - Alkemeyer, Thomas A2 - Alkemeyer, Thomas DB - BISp DP - BISp KW - Körperbild KW - Körperkultur KW - Körperlichkeit KW - Leibeserziehung KW - Nationalsozialismus KW - Sportgeschichte KW - Sportsoziologie KW - Vorstellung LA - eng TI - Images and politics of the body in the National Socialist era TT - Vorstellungen und Koerperpolitik im Nationalsozialismus PY - 1995 N2 - The politics of the National Socialist state were largely politics of the body. They were aimed at appropriating people's senses and bodies in order to be able to form their inner selves, theri "characters". The intention was to produce functioning subjects of power. At the same time, the body served as an impressive and easily understandable medium of ideology: images of perfect, athletic bodies were publicly presented in fascism as (racial) models, representing a new Germany, restored to health and setting itself distinctly apart from a past "marked by illness" and apart from other groups and nations. The contribution examines the interrelationship of politics concerned with the body, "political physical education" (Politische Leibeserziehung), and the iconography of the perfect body in fascist public life. The real significance to the National Socialist state's inclination to present itself in images of the perfect, powerful body is discussed, as well as the close connection between the cult of the strong body and the destruction, in reality, of the weak body and the body of the "other" in the Third Reich. Verf.-Referat SP - S. 60-90 SN - 1056-6724 JO - Sport science review IS - 1 VL - 4 M3 - Gedruckte Ressource ID - PU199505101261 ER -