German Football Museum

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German Football Museum
DFB Museum Dortmund.jpg
Museum building on Königswall
Data
place Dortmund coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 58.5 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 30.8 ″  EWorld icon
Art
Sports museum and event location
architect Office HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg + Partner, Düsseldorf
opening October 23, 2015
Number of visitors (annually) more than 200,000
operator
management
Website

The German Football Museum was opened on October 23, 2015 as the national football museum of the German Football Association (DFB) in Dortmund . The plans came from the DFB-Stiftung Deutsches Fußballmuseum gGmbH based in Dortmund.

History of origin

After the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany, the DFB decided to use the profits from the World Cup to finance the establishment of a national German soccer museum. In May 2007, the DFB Presidium selected the cities of Cologne, Oberhausen, Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund from 14 cities that had applied as a location for the football museum and thus decided on a location in the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia . At an extraordinary Bundestag of the DFB on April 24, 2009, the delegates decided on the area close to the city center south of Dortmund's main train station , which had been used as a bus station until construction began on the museum.

German Football Museum under construction (opposite the main train station)

Construction work on the museum began in September 2012; The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 20th in the presence of DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach , Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft and Mayor Ullrich Sierau .

The foundation stone was laid on April 29, 2013. Among others, Wolfgang Niersbach, Reinhard Rauball and Ute Schäfer were present . A year later, in 2014, the topping-out ceremony could be celebrated.

Land and building

location

The German Football Museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the main train station and is part of an art and culture mile between the creative center Dortmunder U and the Dortmund concert hall .

Architecture competition

The city of Dortmund, in cooperation with the DFB, had announced an international architectural competition for the building . On May 4, 2011, the jury of the competition awarded three designs from 24 submitted works. There was no unqualified winning design. Instead, the judges awarded a group of awards with three equal awards to the architects HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg + Partner (Düsseldorf), ARGE Petersen BWM Architects and Partners (Dortmund) and pmp Architects (Munich). In addition, the jury gave recognition to the offices of Bolles + Wilson (Münster), LOOC / M (Frankfurt / Main) and Schulte-Frohlinde (Berlin) for their work.

Architecture detail DFB Museum
View of the main entrance

On June 29, 2011, at a joint press conference between the City of Dortmund and the DFB Football Museum, it was announced that the offices of HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg + Partner, Düsseldorf and pmp Architekten, Munich, were equally awarded first place in the international architecture competition. ARGE Petersen BWM Architects and Partners, Dortmund, achieved third place. Based on the jury's recommendation, the final winning design was determined in discussions and published in the daily press on September 26, 2011.

Content orientation

Custom-made football by Adi Dassler with the signatures of all players in the first Bundesliga season in 1963/64

The German Football Museum should be a living place of remembrance and experience of German football history. The focus is on information about historical football events and the development of sport in all its facets, as well as social and societal issues relating to football. “The museum should be designed specifically to be visitor-oriented and strive for a high quality of experience and attractiveness. It should inform, stimulate thought, surprise, touch, inspire - in one word: entertain. To do this, it uses the most modern exhibition concepts and media. ”The museum is intended to serve as a“ forum for encounters and discussions for [...] fans and associations, friends and supporters, partners and sponsors ”. "Events such as galas and receptions, award ceremonies and press conferences, readings and TV productions in a separate event area contribute to this," says the mission statement of the DFB-Stiftung Deutsches Fußballmuseum.

Mario Götze donated his shoe, with which he scored the decisive goal in the World Cup final against Argentina , for the largest donation to the aid organization Ein Herz für Kinder . An unknown donor submitted the maximum amount of two million euros on the evening of December 6, 2014. National coach Joachim Löw then announced that the sports historical footwear would be exhibited in the new German Football Museum. In fact, the right shoe is on display. In July 2020, Götze also gave the museum his award for the goal of the decade which he scored in the 2014 World Cup final.

construction

Draw for the 1st round of the DFB Cup 2017/18 in the multifunctional arena
View into the multifunctional arena during the unveiling of the Dortmund / Rostow-Rhinos 2018

The tour of the museum begins on the second floor. This is dedicated to national football. Via a 3D cinema, the visitor reaches the first floor, which deals with club football. In the basement there is a multifunctional arena that can be used for various event formats. The entire building is designed to be barrier-free.

Culture and event program

The cultural and event program of the German Football Museum ANSTOSS deepens topics from the museum's permanent exhibition as well as from the daily debates with different formats from film and song evenings to discussion groups and readings. The museum also has a 3D cinema for this purpose .

In February 2017, for example, soccer coach Thomas Tuchel and humanities scholar Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht philosophized about the beauty of the game. Since the 2017/18 season , the DFB Cup draws have also taken place on the Sunday after the respective cup round from 6 p.m. in the football museum and are broadcast live in the sports show . In 2018, as part of the celebration of the forty-year twinning between Dortmund and Rostow-on-Don , the Dortmund / Rostow-Rhino , another winged rhinoceros was unveiled in the German Football Museum, which will be installed on the Rostov-on-Don square after the World Cup .

Regardless of events accompanying football, the museum's rooms can also be used for other purposes - for children's birthdays, award ceremonies or nightly tours through to performances by famous personalities.

Walk of Fame

On the forecourt of the museum, a Walk of Fame shows footprints or signatures of famous German footballers.

Hall of Fame

For the new Hall of Fame of German football , eleven players and a coach were selected in November 2018. The Hall of Fame opened in April 2019 as part of the house's permanent exhibition. The admission of the founding members was celebrated with a gala. In 2019, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the European title of German women at the home European championship in 1989, a female founding eleven is to be elected.

Players: Sepp Maier , Franz Beckenbauer , Andreas Brehme , Paul Breitner , Fritz Walter , Lothar Matthäus , Matthias Sammer , Günter Netzer , Gerd Müller , Uwe Seeler , Helmut Rahn

Trainer: Sepp Herberger

Organization and DFB Foundation German Football Museum gGmbH

The DFB-Stiftung Deutsches Fußballmuseum gGmbH, based in Dortmund, is headed by the managing directors Manuel Neukirchner (DFB) and Klaus Berding (City of Dortmund). Michael Keßeler, who previously represented the city of Dortmund as managing director and supervised the building work, took on a new role in 2018. The shareholders' meeting of the non-profit GmbH consists in equal parts of representatives of the DFB Presidium and the city of Dortmund.

Awards

  • 2017: European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) - nomination
  • 2017: Luigi Micheletti Award and DASA Award of the European Museum Academy (EMA) - nomination
  • 2017: Location Award, category cultural location for events - nomination
  • 2018: Location Award, category event locations for incentives - nomination

criticism

The taxpayers' association criticized the German Football Museum . The use of public funds for a museum with reference to football history and football culture is the expenditure of "too much tax money for a minor matter". In October 2019 it became known that the treasury of German football is recording high losses. Since the DFB is only liable for 250,000 euros per year, the rest of the costs have to be raised by the city of Dortmund. This has already planned a sum of 660,000 euros for the 2020/21 double budget for the football museum. The DFB insists on further loss takeover by the city, since they gave Dortmund a house. The high admission prices for the museum also caused problems for football fans. This is one of the reasons why the expected number of 300,000 visitors per year was far from being reached. Due to a lack of sponsors, the subsidy from the city of Dortmund is to increase to 727,000 euros in 2019 and to 900,000 euros per year from 2020.

In his report, the author Moritz Rinke takes the opinion that a visit to the German Football Museum allows visitors to experience “touching back into their own life, childhood, memories” and that the exhibition is “scenographically and multimedia-based”.

The chief correspondent of the New York Times Alison Smale writes in her essay A Museum about football - and about Germany that the museum is not afraid to compare it with the German past: “The national team from 1941 is shown with Nazi salute before the game against Sweden . A notorious propaganda film from 1944 shows the Jewish inmates in the Nazi ghetto Theresienstadt [...] playing football and allegedly leading a relaxed life. In reality, most of them were deported to Auschwitz ”.

Christian Wacker wrote that “most objects are copies, facsimiles or second objects”. He also criticized the insufficient involvement of the visitors with the words "Like a provincial museum from the eighties".

Exhibitions

Special exhibition in the German Football Museum 2017: Herberger's World of Books - The unknown pages of the coaching legend
Special exhibition in the German Football Museum 2018: Shift change - FußballLebenRuhrgebiet
  • 2015: 25 years of German football unity
  • 2016: 50 years of Wembley - The myth in snapshots
  • 2017: Between success and persecution - Jewish stars in German sport until 1933 and after
  • 2017: Herberger's world of books - the unknown pages of the trainer legend
  • 2018: Shift change - FußballLebenRuhrgebiet

literature

  • Manuel Neukirchner (Ed.): More than a game. The book about the German Football Museum. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-0973-1
  • Manuel Neukirchner: Wembley 1966: The myth in snapshots. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8375-1622-7
  • Manuel Neukirchner: Herberger's world of books - The unknown pages of the trainer legend. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7307-0340-3
  • Jochen Hieber , Manuel Neukirchner (ed.): Finds from the German Football Museum. The opening volume of the Kleine Fußball-Bibliothek series in the edition of the German Football Museum, Dortmund 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-057313-2

Web links

Commons : German Football  Museum - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Alexandra Neuhaus: Construction work for the DFB Museum begins. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. September 20, 2012, accessed March 15, 2018 .
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  10. ↑ Mario Götze provides the award. July 31, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020 .
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  12. ↑ Looking for the beautiful. In: taz.de. February 3, 2017, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  13. ↑ In the football museum: New TV format for cup draws. dfb.de, May 12, 2017, accessed May 26, 2017 .
  14. ↑ 40 years of city partnership. focus.de, May 7, 2018, accessed on May 16, 2018 .
  15. ↑ ExtraSchicht 2018 - Aftermovie Deutsches Fußballmuseum Dortmund on www.youtube.com; accessed on January 5, 2019.
  16. ↑ Twelve German football idols elected into the new Hall of Fame. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 22, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Eleven football legends and a coach icon ( Memento from November 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ^ Hall of Fame website
  19. ^ WORLD: Beckenbauer, the «Bomber» and Co .: The German Hall of Fame . In: THE WORLD . November 22, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed November 23, 2018]).
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  24. ↑ German Football Museum nominated for museum awards . In: DIE ZEIT , edition April 7, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  25. ↑ Top locations nominated. In: ahgz.de. July 7, 2017, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  26. ^ The nominees - Location Award. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  27. ^ German Football Museum: Financing under criticism. In: derwesten.de. May 29, 2009. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
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  29. ↑ DFB insists on further loss takeover of the city. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. October 17, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Entry to the football museum in Dortmund is even more expensive than expected. In: wr.de. March 6, 2015, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Losses at the football museum: OB Sierau catches up with angry prophecy. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. October 2, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  32. ↑ 900,000 euros more per year: Football Museum is getting more and more expensive for the city of Dortmund , rp-online.de , November 28, 2019
  33. ↑ Moritz Rinke: When we were still cheering . In: DIE ZEIT , issue 45/2015 of November 5, 2015. Accessed March 15, 2018.
  34. ^ Alison Smale: A Museum About Soccer, and About Germany . In: The New York Times , April 3, 2017 issue. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  35. ^ Christian Wacker: German Football Museum: Like a provincial museum from the eighties. In: Zeit Online. December 16, 2015, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  36. ↑ Opened with Wosz special exhibition on football unity. In: dfb-fussballmuseum.de. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
  37. ↑ Two who have nothing to say to each other . In: FAZ of July 30, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  38. ↑ Football Museum shows a show about Jewish athletes ( memento from June 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: WDR from October 9, 2017.
  39. ↑ football tactics with Plato, Mao and Co. . In: FAZ of March 24, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  40. ↑ Football Museum shows an exhibition on ball sports and mining . In: Focus from March 2, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2018.