Coubertin und die Antike

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Autor:Müller, Norbert
Erschienen in:Nikephoros
Veröffentlicht:10 (1997), S. 289-302, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Deutsch
ISSN:0934-8913
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Erfassungsnummer:PU199912404055
Quelle:BISp

Abstract des Autors

"Celebrating Olympic Games means celebrating history". Thus said Coubertin in his intellectual legacy in the year 1935. By "history" Coubertin, with regard to his life's work - the modern Olympic Games and movement -, meant primarily Greek antiquity. As a pupil he das received crucial impulses through Father Carron at the Jesuit-College in Paris. He believed the only right way to regain harmony of mind and body as an educational principle for the people of the dawning 20th century to lay in the revival of the ancient Olympic Games, which he perceived, in accordance with the "Zeitgeist", as idealised manner. In his extensive writings, Coubertin many times deals not only with Olympia but also with classical Greece and its education. The ancient gymnasium and the institution of the Olympic Games should be places where democracy was practised, and should be open to every citizen as modern urban sports offer free access to physical activity. Modern Olympism gained from its relationship with art and culture, together with the social component of "sport as dowry of all peoples and races", a holistic meaning which today is more of a burden than an honour. Verf.-Referat