Hans Bonde
Biographic Data
| ID | 3861771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Bonde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonde |
| SIGNATURE | BONDE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7962-7732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
New conceptual apparatus for political orientation in relation to sporting mega-events – case
The Football World Cup in Qatar 2022 is used as a case study to examine which novel concepts can be used by human rights-oriented national sports federations to act adequately politically at sporting mega-events. The key concepts outlined here are: (1) ‘Policy monopoly’: The legitimate right of a host nation or an international sports organization (FIFA/IOC) to politicize. (2) ‘Over-politicization’: The politicization of the host nation, internat…
Fra Frelse Til Helse
Den bedst kendte danske amatørsportsmand i 1890’erne og med sit fitnessprogram Mit System fra 1904 verdensberømte danske hygiejniker, J.P. Müller, er præstesøn og teologisk skolet. I den tidlige modernitet er det svært gnidningsløst blot at aflægge sine religiøse følelser og overgive sig til den moderne verdensanskuelse. Begrebet ‘den dobbelte kristendom’ dækker over en tendens til, at kristent inspireret arvegods diffunderer uden for kirken og v…
Niels Bukh's Gymnastics School in Denmark, 1912–1933
Around 1916–1917 the Danish gymnastics pedagogue Niels Bukh (1880–1950) created, in an international sense, a revolutionary men's gymnastics, and in 1920 he established Denmark's and the world's first folk high school of physical education and sport. During the 1930s, Niels Bukh and his team of gymnasts first became a symbol for the dynamic Danish farming community, and then for the face of Denmark both at home and abroad. Bukh changed the stereo…
The Politics of the Male Body in Global Sport
Danish sport has been associated with Europe and the World; not least through I.P. Muller and Niels Bukh and the Danish Gymnastics revolution with its emphasis on male aesthetics and hygiene in the first half of the twentieth century. At the same time, Denmark has stood apart from Europe in the early moments of its history of sport with the rural revolution of the farming communities as a statement of political independence and assertion. However…
Politics of the Male Body in Global Sport
Projection of Male Fantasies
About 100 years ago, in 1909, the Danish medical doctor Johannes Lindhard (1870–1947) became associate professor, and in 1917 professor, of the theory of gymnastics at the University of Copenhagen. Lindhard's collaboration with the physiologist and 1920 Nobel Prize winner August Krogh (1874–1949) laid the foundation for the birth of exercise physiology in Scandinavia. In addition to his basic-level studies of physiology, Lindhard also became deep…
Gymnastics – an Emerging National University Discipline – Johannes Lindhard's Struggle to Institutionalise Gymnastics as a Subject at the University of Copenhagen 1909–1940
From 1909 to 1940 the medical professor Johannes Lindhard, struggled to establish gymnastics as a subject at the University of Copenhagen and in doing so, he faced a complex situation. He had to make sure that he did not lose his scientific integrity; that the intellectual authority in gymnastic matters was transferred to the university in a way that did not undermine the political support that had made it possible to add gymnastics to the subjec…
Det ekstreme køn - Radikalisering af unge mandlige fodboldtilskuere under den tyske besættelse af Danmark
Sport and Politics – Danish–German Sport Collaboration during World War II
After the enforced break due to the riots of the Admira soccer match in Copenhagen in June 1941, the Danish and German authorities were so concerned about the events of the Admira game being repeated that around 50 security officers were brought in for a boxing tournament in Copenhagen on 8 October 1941. However, Danish–German sporting relations got underway again, even with national team matches going on in Germany and matches with other Axis-po…
Return of the Ritual
In this essay I want to demonstrate that not only male competitive sport in general but the Oriental martial arts in particular show that female dominance in the education of modern boys is not at all total. In Oriental martial arts we find a number of rituals and a kind of manhood test where boys and young men are taught masculine codes of behaviour. In our non-sensuous, highly technological society it seems that young people and especially youn…
The Devil in the Flesh
In the history of Danish radio broadcasting the founder of Danish radio gymnastics, Captain Jespersen (1883–1963), stands out as a charismatic figure who still today appeals as an intriguing voice from the past. After some dramatic falls from his horse Captain Jespersen was injured several times, but through the personal experience of a religious call he felt obliged not only to seek recovery himself but to spread the message of human perfection …
The Gymnastics ‘Sexual Revolution’
Niels Bukh became a key exponent in Continental Europe's attempt to maintain gymnastics' precedence over British competitive sport. His revolutionizing concept of male gymnastics mainly gained its fame through its effects on the male sex role regarding norms for touching other men, for the rhythmic expression of the male body and for the exposure of the naked and sensual male body in public. These features of Bukh's gymnastics broke with existing…
Danish Sport and the Nazi Seizure of Power
At the Berlin Olympics in 1936 Danish sports officialdom in its near entirety mustered and could report on the series of impressive German victories and the organizers' fantastic ability to create an atmosphere and sense of unity at the most grandiose Olympics up until that time. Only among Danish Communists, cultural radicals, workers' sports movements, Jewish sports and in the social-democratic press was there resistance to a racist, military r…
Globalization Before Globalization
This article is about a man who was one of the best known Danes abroad in the 1930s. His name was Niels Bukh, and from 1920 on he built an imposing gymnastics school in the small town of Ollerup on South Funen. His team of young elite gymnasts demonstrated his gymnastics on several continents – in the East, in North and South America, in Africa and in many European countries. For instance Bukh's gymnasts gave demonstrations in the US in 1923 and …
The Great Male Cycle
Sport today is one of the few areas where men can meet without women. In the workplace, and from the church to the pub, the sexes mix. Therefore contemporary sport has become extremely overloaded, as the field designated to bear a large part of the male project, to identify what is masculine in relation to other men. However, today a chasm has appeared between a group of highly-trained body-conscious men and the broad majority suffering under wel…
Prologue
Outward loss, inward gain. [1] What justifies a volume specifically devoted to Danish sport history in its exchange with general European trends in the sphere of sport? Denmark is a small nation, b
Sport, the Olympics and Politics
The broad base of sporting activity in China functions as a hatchery for an elite, by which is generally meant the Olympic elite since China commits itself with full force to those Olympic disciplines that have the most medals and which are easiest to win. For the leaders of the Chinese state, the primary aim of the Beijing Olympic Games was a facelift that would demonstrate that the country had finally become a modern superpower. All opening cer…
The Struggle for Danish Youth
This article demonstrates the potential fascination of Nazi ideology outside Germany's borders in a country declared by the Nazis to be a friendly and racially pure zone and with the celebration of the athletic body as the common denominator. The article also shows that the use of sexuality as a political weapon is not a new phenomenon invented by modern American politics. The great paradox of the life of the internationally renowned Danish gymna…
Political Assertion
The Danish Grundtvigian spiritual and national revival in the decade around 1900 contained a high degree of enthusiasm and a strong collective feeling, which was demonstrated not least through gymnastics displays where young farm-lads' and girls' teams marched into and out of the arena singing patriotic anthems, led by a gymnast carrying a huge Danish national flag. Through gymnastics rural ideas and values were dramatized and embodied, making gy…
From Hygiene to Salvation
The internationally renowned Danish gymnastics pedagogue and hygienist I.P. Muller became a propagandist for the blessings of water, air and light at a time when these concepts were gaining an increasingly important role in the emerging science of medicine. He spread the evolving medical profession's gospel of hygiene and purification to the broad public by his own example and his simple ritualistic scheme of gymnastics. In his writings and in hi…
Epilogue
The Time and Speed Ideology
Around 1900 there was a revolution in the Danish sportsman's pattern of movement with the transition from the elegant figure skating to the race against the clock that is speed skating. We can note a trend in which the male ideal, in parts of the bourgeoisie, changed from having been ‘the elegant man’ – which in turn was based on the standards of aristocratic exercises – to being ‘the fast man’. Concepts such as grace, style and perfection of for…
Nationalism in the Age of Extremes
The inter-war period was characterized by the intense struggle for supremacy between communism and fascism with the seemingly fragile democratic states being increasingly involved in the confrontation. In 1931 at a ‘world tour’ of Danish gymnastics the great globetrotter Niels Bukh landed right in the middle of these political antagonisms. In the Soviet Union, around 1931, the authorities initially showed an interest in Bukh's rural gymnasts, who…
Turn of the Tide
During the German occupation of Denmark the arch-rivalry on the football field between Denmark and Sweden was transformed into an atmosphere of fraternal neighbourliness from 1940 to 1943 because of the pressure of occupation and war. However, the intense Swedish-Danish sports cooperation during the first years of the Second World War was not just a neutral exchange but was embedded in a close triangular collaboration with Germany. Attempts by th…
Revolt
The Danish ‘peace occupation’ meant that, initially, the German sports propaganda was most successful in Denmark, when compared with other German-occupied countries. Therefore, a full-scale sports exchange with Germany (and Sweden) could take place. The Danish case, on the other hand, also demonstrated the vulnerability of the German strategy of a flourishing and to some extent voluntary sports exchange with an occupied nation. This became quite …
Gymnastics and politics
A man's biography should be written by a conscientious enemy The concept of folkelighed, translated here as democratic national sentiment, is central to an understanding of the thinking of the Dani
The Gymnastics ‘Sexual Revolution’
Niels Bukh became a key exponent in Continental Europe's attempt to maintain gymnastics' precedence over British competitive sport. His revolutionizing concept of male gymnastics mainly gained its fame through its effects on the male sex role regarding norms for touching other men, for the rhythmic expression of the male body and for the exposure of the naked and sensual male body in public. These features of Bukh's gymnastics broke with existing…
The Great Male Cycle
Sport today is one of the few areas where men can meet without women. In the workplace, and from the church to the pub, the sexes mix. Therefore contemporary sport has become extremely overloaded, as the field designated to bear a large part of the male project, to identify what is masculine in relation to other men. However, today a chasm has appeared between a group of highly-trained body-conscious men and the broad majority suffering under wel…
Political Assertion
The Danish Grundtvigian spiritual and national revival in the decade around 1900 contained a high degree of enthusiasm and a strong collective feeling, which was demonstrated not least through gymnastics displays where young farm-lads' and girls' teams marched into and out of the arena singing patriotic anthems, led by a gymnast carrying a huge Danish national flag. Through gymnastics rural ideas and values were dramatized and embodied, making gy…
From Hygiene to Salvation
The internationally renowned Danish gymnastics pedagogue and hygienist I.P. Muller became a propagandist for the blessings of water, air and light at a time when these concepts were gaining an increasingly important role in the emerging science of medicine. He spread the evolving medical profession's gospel of hygiene and purification to the broad public by his own example and his simple ritualistic scheme of gymnastics. In his writings and in hi…
The Time and Speed Ideology
Around 1900 there was a revolution in the Danish sportsman's pattern of movement with the transition from the elegant figure skating to the race against the clock that is speed skating. We can note a trend in which the male ideal, in parts of the bourgeoisie, changed from having been ‘the elegant man’ – which in turn was based on the standards of aristocratic exercises – to being ‘the fast man’. Concepts such as grace, style and perfection of for…
National identity and the body
Gymnastics as a rite of passage
Return of the Ritual
In this essay I want to demonstrate that not only male competitive sport in general but the Oriental martial arts in particular show that female dominance in the education of modern boys is not at all total. In Oriental martial arts we find a number of rituals and a kind of manhood test where boys and young men are taught masculine codes of behaviour. In our non-sensuous, highly technological society it seems that young people and especially youn…
Danish Sport and the Nazi Seizure of Power
At the Berlin Olympics in 1936 Danish sports officialdom in its near entirety mustered and could report on the series of impressive German victories and the organizers' fantastic ability to create an atmosphere and sense of unity at the most grandiose Olympics up until that time. Only among Danish Communists, cultural radicals, workers' sports movements, Jewish sports and in the social-democratic press was there resistance to a racist, military r…
Globalization Before Globalization
This article is about a man who was one of the best known Danes abroad in the 1930s. His name was Niels Bukh, and from 1920 on he built an imposing gymnastics school in the small town of Ollerup on South Funen. His team of young elite gymnasts demonstrated his gymnastics on several continents – in the East, in North and South America, in Africa and in many European countries. For instance Bukh's gymnasts gave demonstrations in the US in 1923 and …
Prologue
Outward loss, inward gain. [1] What justifies a volume specifically devoted to Danish sport history in its exchange with general European trends in the sphere of sport? Denmark is a small nation, b
Sport, the Olympics and Politics
The broad base of sporting activity in China functions as a hatchery for an elite, by which is generally meant the Olympic elite since China commits itself with full force to those Olympic disciplines that have the most medals and which are easiest to win. For the leaders of the Chinese state, the primary aim of the Beijing Olympic Games was a facelift that would demonstrate that the country had finally become a modern superpower. All opening cer…
Nationalism in the Age of Extremes
The inter-war period was characterized by the intense struggle for supremacy between communism and fascism with the seemingly fragile democratic states being increasingly involved in the confrontation. In 1931 at a ‘world tour’ of Danish gymnastics the great globetrotter Niels Bukh landed right in the middle of these political antagonisms. In the Soviet Union, around 1931, the authorities initially showed an interest in Bukh's rural gymnasts, who…
The iconic symbolism of Niels Bukh
Masculine movements
L'A. montre que le sport a pris une place tres importante dans la vie sociale au Danemark. Il etudie le lien qui unit la pratique du sport a certains mouvements masculins dans ce pays. Il examine l'importance culturelle et educative du sport, dans la societe danoise de la fin du 19 e siecle, sur le plan de la construction de la masculinite. Il presente et examine un certain nombre de donnees collectees entre 1880 et 1920 au sein de la presse spor…
Farmers’ gymnastics in Denmark in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Sport and history in Scandinavia
Sport and history in Scandinavia
Farmers’ gymnastics in Denmark in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Gymnastics as a rite of passage
National identity and the body
Masculine movements
L'A. montre que le sport a pris une place tres importante dans la vie sociale au Danemark. Il etudie le lien qui unit la pratique du sport a certains mouvements masculins dans ce pays. Il examine l'importance culturelle et educative du sport, dans la societe danoise de la fin du 19 e siecle, sur le plan de la construction de la masculinite. Il presente et examine un certain nombre de donnees collectees entre 1880 et 1920 au sein de la presse spor…
The iconic symbolism of Niels Bukh
Sport and anti‐communism
The White Man's Body
Extracted from text ... * This article is based on material from a research trip to the State Archives in Cape Town (hereafter CA) in July 1995 and from the archives of Niels Bukh*s Gymnastics High School in Ollerup (hereafter OA), as well as interviews with participants in the tour. The article is part of a larger dissertation on Niels Bukh, which will be published at the end of 2001. 1. Bukh*s official speech to the National Advisory Board for …
Gymnastics and politics
A man's biography should be written by a conscientious enemy The concept of folkelighed, translated here as democratic national sentiment, is central to an understanding of the thinking of the Dani
Return of the Ritual
In this essay I want to demonstrate that not only male competitive sport in general but the Oriental martial arts in particular show that female dominance in the education of modern boys is not at all total. In Oriental martial arts we find a number of rituals and a kind of manhood test where boys and young men are taught masculine codes of behaviour. In our non-sensuous, highly technological society it seems that young people and especially youn…
The Devil in the Flesh
In the history of Danish radio broadcasting the founder of Danish radio gymnastics, Captain Jespersen (1883–1963), stands out as a charismatic figure who still today appeals as an intriguing voice from the past. After some dramatic falls from his horse Captain Jespersen was injured several times, but through the personal experience of a religious call he felt obliged not only to seek recovery himself but to spread the message of human perfection …
The Gymnastics ‘Sexual Revolution’
Niels Bukh became a key exponent in Continental Europe's attempt to maintain gymnastics' precedence over British competitive sport. His revolutionizing concept of male gymnastics mainly gained its fame through its effects on the male sex role regarding norms for touching other men, for the rhythmic expression of the male body and for the exposure of the naked and sensual male body in public. These features of Bukh's gymnastics broke with existing…
Danish Sport and the Nazi Seizure of Power
At the Berlin Olympics in 1936 Danish sports officialdom in its near entirety mustered and could report on the series of impressive German victories and the organizers' fantastic ability to create an atmosphere and sense of unity at the most grandiose Olympics up until that time. Only among Danish Communists, cultural radicals, workers' sports movements, Jewish sports and in the social-democratic press was there resistance to a racist, military r…
Globalization Before Globalization
This article is about a man who was one of the best known Danes abroad in the 1930s. His name was Niels Bukh, and from 1920 on he built an imposing gymnastics school in the small town of Ollerup on South Funen. His team of young elite gymnasts demonstrated his gymnastics on several continents – in the East, in North and South America, in Africa and in many European countries. For instance Bukh's gymnasts gave demonstrations in the US in 1923 and …
The Great Male Cycle
Sport today is one of the few areas where men can meet without women. In the workplace, and from the church to the pub, the sexes mix. Therefore contemporary sport has become extremely overloaded, as the field designated to bear a large part of the male project, to identify what is masculine in relation to other men. However, today a chasm has appeared between a group of highly-trained body-conscious men and the broad majority suffering under wel…
Prologue
Outward loss, inward gain. [1] What justifies a volume specifically devoted to Danish sport history in its exchange with general European trends in the sphere of sport? Denmark is a small nation, b
Sport, the Olympics and Politics
The broad base of sporting activity in China functions as a hatchery for an elite, by which is generally meant the Olympic elite since China commits itself with full force to those Olympic disciplines that have the most medals and which are easiest to win. For the leaders of the Chinese state, the primary aim of the Beijing Olympic Games was a facelift that would demonstrate that the country had finally become a modern superpower. All opening cer…
The Struggle for Danish Youth
This article demonstrates the potential fascination of Nazi ideology outside Germany's borders in a country declared by the Nazis to be a friendly and racially pure zone and with the celebration of the athletic body as the common denominator. The article also shows that the use of sexuality as a political weapon is not a new phenomenon invented by modern American politics. The great paradox of the life of the internationally renowned Danish gymna…
Political Assertion
The Danish Grundtvigian spiritual and national revival in the decade around 1900 contained a high degree of enthusiasm and a strong collective feeling, which was demonstrated not least through gymnastics displays where young farm-lads' and girls' teams marched into and out of the arena singing patriotic anthems, led by a gymnast carrying a huge Danish national flag. Through gymnastics rural ideas and values were dramatized and embodied, making gy…
From Hygiene to Salvation
The internationally renowned Danish gymnastics pedagogue and hygienist I.P. Muller became a propagandist for the blessings of water, air and light at a time when these concepts were gaining an increasingly important role in the emerging science of medicine. He spread the evolving medical profession's gospel of hygiene and purification to the broad public by his own example and his simple ritualistic scheme of gymnastics. In his writings and in hi…
Epilogue
The Time and Speed Ideology
Around 1900 there was a revolution in the Danish sportsman's pattern of movement with the transition from the elegant figure skating to the race against the clock that is speed skating. We can note a trend in which the male ideal, in parts of the bourgeoisie, changed from having been ‘the elegant man’ – which in turn was based on the standards of aristocratic exercises – to being ‘the fast man’. Concepts such as grace, style and perfection of for…
Nationalism in the Age of Extremes
The inter-war period was characterized by the intense struggle for supremacy between communism and fascism with the seemingly fragile democratic states being increasingly involved in the confrontation. In 1931 at a ‘world tour’ of Danish gymnastics the great globetrotter Niels Bukh landed right in the middle of these political antagonisms. In the Soviet Union, around 1931, the authorities initially showed an interest in Bukh's rural gymnasts, who…
Turn of the Tide
During the German occupation of Denmark the arch-rivalry on the football field between Denmark and Sweden was transformed into an atmosphere of fraternal neighbourliness from 1940 to 1943 because of the pressure of occupation and war. However, the intense Swedish-Danish sports cooperation during the first years of the Second World War was not just a neutral exchange but was embedded in a close triangular collaboration with Germany. Attempts by th…
Revolt
The Danish ‘peace occupation’ meant that, initially, the German sports propaganda was most successful in Denmark, when compared with other German-occupied countries. Therefore, a full-scale sports exchange with Germany (and Sweden) could take place. The Danish case, on the other hand, also demonstrated the vulnerability of the German strategy of a flourishing and to some extent voluntary sports exchange with an occupied nation. This became quite …
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