Abstract des Autors

Vom 05. bis 06. September 2008 fand in Hamburg die Tagung “Social and cultural history of sport and physical culture in the Soviet Union” statt. Die Referenten und ihre Beiträge der Tagung sind: Ekaterina Emeliantseva - Sports visions and sports places: the topography of sports in late imperial St Petersburg and its photographic representation (1890-1914); Burcu Dogramaci - Heading into modernity: sports, architecture, and photography in the young Turkish republic; Sandra Budy - Changing images of sport in the early Soviet press; Alexandra Köhring - Exploring the power of the curve: the project of an “International Red Stadium” in Soviet Moscow of the 1920s; Bettina Jungen - Frozen action: the sport motive in Soviet sculpture; Christina Kiaer - Deineka and the Vtorova sisters: the representation and experience of sport in the 1930s; Pat Simpson - Liberation and containment: re-visualizing the eugenic and evolutionary ideal of the Fizkul’turnitsa in 1944; Eva Maurer - An academic escape to the periphery? The socio-cultural milieu of Soviet mountaineering from the 1920s to the 1950s; Robert Edelman - The Sal’nikov affair of 1950: Soviet football’s most scandalous transfer; Manfred Zeller - When Lev Jaschin was sent off the field. Soviet soccer in retrospect – An oral history; Olga Chepurnaya - Moscow Olympics - Individual biographies; Kateryna Kobchenko - Emancipation within the ruling ideology: Soviet women in physical culture and sport in the 1920-1930s; Anke Hilbrenner - Soviet women in sports: the female body between gender stereotypes and equal opportunity utopia; Stefan Wiederkehr- “… if Jarmila Kratochvilova is the future of women´s sports, I´m not sure I´m ready for it.” Media, gender, and cold war. Der vorliegende Tagungsbericht vom 05.11.2008 stellt die wesentlichen Inhalte der Tagung dar.