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Willy Meisl’s “German Football Nation”: Internationalism, Austrian Patriotism, and Jewish Pride in Interwar Sports Writing (2022)
Book Chapter
Schiller, K. (2022). Willy Meisl’s “German Football Nation”: Internationalism, Austrian Patriotism, and Jewish Pride in Interwar Sports Writing. In R. Dawson, B. Heinsohn, O. Knabe, & A. McDougall (Eds.), Football Nation: the Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society (83-101). Berghahn Journals. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800736818

The Sport in History Journal (2021)
Book Chapter
Day, D., & Schiller, K. (2022). The Sport in History Journal. In M. Phillips, D. Booth, & C. Adams (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sport History (353-359). Routedge

Der schnellste Jude Deutschlands“ – Sport, Moderne und (Körper-)politik im bewegten Leben Alex Natans (1906–1971) (2019)
Journal Article
Schiller, K. (2019). Der schnellste Jude Deutschlands“ – Sport, Moderne und (Körper-)politik im bewegten Leben Alex Natans (1906–1971). Stadion, 43(2), 185-218. https://doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2019-2-185

This article deals with the biography of the elite Jewish-German sprinter, sports writer and left-wing political activist Alex Natan, „the fastest Jew in Germany“ (Alfred Flechtheim) during the 1920s. Hailing from an assimilated family of the Berlin... Read More about Der schnellste Jude Deutschlands“ – Sport, Moderne und (Körper-)politik im bewegten Leben Alex Natans (1906–1971).

Siegen für Deutschland? Patriotism, Nationalism and the German National Football Team, 1954-2014 (2015)
Journal Article
Schiller, K. (2015). Siegen für Deutschland? Patriotism, Nationalism and the German National Football Team, 1954-2014. Historical social research. Supplement (Köln), 40(4), 176-196. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.40.2015.4.176-196

»Siegen für Deutschland? Patriotismus, Nationalismus und die Deutsche Fußball-Nationalmannschaft 1954-2014«. This article discusses the relationship between expressions of patriotism, nationalism and national identity and the fortunes of the German n... Read More about Siegen für Deutschland? Patriotism, Nationalism and the German National Football Team, 1954-2014.

The 1974 World Cup in West Germany: A Non-Event? (2014)
Book Chapter
Schiller, K. (2014). The 1974 World Cup in West Germany: A Non-Event?. In S. Rinke, & K. Schiller (Eds.), The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010 : politics, commerce, spectacle and identities (220-239). Wallstein Verlag

Fußball und Politik im Münchner Olympiastadion (2014)
Book Chapter
Schiller, K. (2014). Fußball und Politik im Münchner Olympiastadion. In S. Rinke, & C. Peters (Eds.), Global play : football between region, nation and the world in Latin American, African, and European history (85-108). Heinz Verlag

Munich '72: Selling the Games to Foreign Audiences and at Home (2013)
Journal Article
Schiller, K., & Young, C. (2013). Munich '72: Selling the Games to Foreign Audiences and at Home. Sport in History, 33(3), 373-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2013.822411

After the terrorist attack on the Israeli team, the 1972 Munich Olympics could be considered a PR disaster for the Federal Republic of Germany. In the years before the Games, however, the organizers orchestrated a finely tuned campaign, which used li... Read More about Munich '72: Selling the Games to Foreign Audiences and at Home.

Motion and landscape: Otl Aicher, Günther Grzimek and the graphic and garden designs of the 1972 Munich Olympics (2010)
Journal Article
Schiller, K., & Young, C. (2010). Motion and landscape: Otl Aicher, Günther Grzimek and the graphic and garden designs of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Urban History, 37(2), 272-288. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926810000350

This article focuses on Otl Aicher's design and Günther Grzimek's garden architecture for the 1972 Munich Olympics. We argue that the functionalist aesthetics of the Munich Olympic site should be interpreted as a translation into graphic and landscap... Read More about Motion and landscape: Otl Aicher, Günther Grzimek and the graphic and garden designs of the 1972 Munich Olympics.