Kaiser Franz and the Communist Bowl

This article focuses on the stadium as a site of cultural space. Its key example is that of the Olympiastadion, which was built for the Munich Olympics 1972 and subsequently passed on to Germany's largest soccer club, Bayern Munich. It examines a double problematic relation: that between architecture and the legacy of history (World War II), typified by the stadium's original purpose of presenting a New Germany on the world stage, and that between symbolism and the body, exemplified by the soccer club's abandonment of the site. The article poses wider questions about the role of bodies and history in the discipline of sports geography

Abandonment (legal) · Ancient history · Archaeology · Club · Communism · First world war · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Sociology · Stadium · World War II · Architecture · European history and politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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