Autonama

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The Autonama during their training camp in Nuremberg in 2007

Autonama is the acronym for car ren na tional ma nnschaft and refers to the German football team of writers. The team was founded in 2005 by Thomas Brussig . The team is or has been looked after by prominent football coaches such as Hans Meyer , Jörg Berger , Dettmar Cramer and Uwe Rapolder , especially in international matches . Honorary captain of the Autonama was Ror Wolf until his death in 2020 . The majority of the members live and work in Berlin , where the team regularly trains together.

history

In the spring of 2005, the well-known football fan Thomas Brussig received an invitation from Tuscany : In the small town of San Casciano dei Bagni a tournament with four European teams of writers will take place in October. A German team can also participate. Since such a team did not yet exist at that time, Brussig asked around for kicking authors, was able to win over the football coach Hans Meyer , who was then working for Hertha BSC , to coach the team on a voluntary basis, and organized a training camp in the Mecklenburg province. At the tournament in San Casciano called First World Writers' League , the Autonama came second after a win against the Italian team and a loss against the Swedish team of authors.

After the tournament, the team's player base grew steadily. So far there have been over 40 writers for the Autonama. Highlights of the team's history included a. Participation in the World Authors' Championship organized by Moritz Rinke in June 2006 in Bremen and in the European Word Cup in June 2007 in Malmö . In February 2008, the Autonama traveled to Riyadh for a guest appearance against Saudi journalists , and in June 2009 it won 4-0 against the English team of authors in London . In May 2008 there was an encounter with the national team from Israel in Berlin , which ended 4: 2, in December of the same year for the second leg in Tel Aviv (2: 4). In September 2009 the Turkish team of authors was defeated 7-1 in Hamburg's Millerntor Stadium .

Since 2008 Autonama has been supported by the German Football Association's cultural foundation and the Federal Foreign Office . Sponsors are the sporting goods company of ex-national goalkeeper Dieter Burdenski and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

European Champion 2010

From April 29 to May 2, 2010, the largest tournament to date for authors' football teams took place in Unna and Dortmund . Under the title RuhrLitCup 2010 , teams from Germany, Sweden, England, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Turkey and FC Criminale , an international team of crime writers, competed against each other at RUHR.2010 . The Autonama, supervised by Jörg Berger and January Böttcher , was able to prevail in the preliminary round against Italy, Hungary and the FC Criminale, defeated in the semifinal to defending champion Sweden with 4: 0 (1: 0) and won the final at the Stadion Rote Erde against Turkey 5-4 on penalties. Moritz Rinke and Jürgen Schmieder were the tournament's most successful goal scorers with five goals each .

publication

In March 2008 Suhrkamp Verlag published the anthology Titelkampf , which contains texts by Autonama members on the subject of football. The book was voted 6th in the choice of the best football book of 2008 by the German Academy for Football Culture.

Current squad (selection)

Former or currently inactive players (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt: Interview with Hans Meyer, accessed on April 17, 2015
  2. ↑ Falko Hennig: How was it with the feared opponent? berliner-zeitung.de, accessed on December 28, 2014
  3. ^ DFB national team of authors , accessed on October 18, 2014
  4. ↑ GERMAN AUTHORS WIN THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP