Diethelm Blecking

Diethelm Blecking 2020

Diethelm Blecking (born December 10, 1948 in Haldern am Niederrhein, today Rees) is a German sports scientist, historian, author and journalist.

Life

Diethelm Blecking studied sport , history , philosophy and education at the Universities of Münster and Poznań . He received his doctorate in 1985 at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the national Polish Sokol movement , and his habilitation in 2000 with a thesis on sport and social movements at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .

He worked for a long time alternating between schools, most recently as director of studies , and universities. After completing his doctorate, Blecking expanded his scientific fields of work a. a. in the direction of migration research and taught at the University of Münster , the Free University of Berlin , the Universities of Saarbrücken, Essen and Heidelberg, at the German Sport University Cologne as well as in Lille (France) and Iasi (Romania). From 2004 to 2006 he was associate professor at the Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego ("Academy for Physical Education") in Poznań and taught history of sports at the branch of the academy in Gorzów Wielkopolski . In 2009 he became a lecturer at the ISW Business School in Freiburg and from 2011 to 2012 he was professor at the Sports Science Institute at the University of Bremen. In 2008 he became an adjunct professor of sports history at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . He also works as a scientific advisor in development aid , for example in Comrat ( Republic of Moldova ) in 2015 and in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) in 2019 .

In his publications, Blecking devotes himself, among other things, to the Polish Solidarność movement, the history of workers' sports, the history of sports in Eastern Europe as well as historical migration research and the integration of foreigners through sport. He is a freelance writer for print media (e.g. Badische Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau ) and radio (mainly Deutschlandfunk ).

Between 1999 and 2003 Blecking lived temporarily in Krakow, Poland, and in the small Italian town of Pennabilli . An Italian travel book was created here ( Ravenna - Rimini - Urbino ) and from the encounter with Tonino Guerra , the screenwriter Federico Fellini , numerous articles and a radio feature about the Romagna poet and his role in European auteur cinema. This was followed by radio features for Deutschlandfunk , NDR and SWR on contemporary history and literature in collaboration with the Berlin writer Matthias Brand. Blecking turned in Poland in depth to the history of the Polish Roma and Polish Judaism and worked as a contributor to the large encyclopedia Jews in Eastern Europe published in New York .

Blecking has published books and essays on the subject of sport and migration, sport and film as well as sport in Eastern Europe and the new immigration of refugees to Germany, he publishes travel articles and city portraits, such as B. to the Republic of Moldova and Rimini. He is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture and the editorial board of the journal Physical Education, sports and health culture in modern society at Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University in Volhynia.

Diethelm Blecking lives in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Publications (selection)

As an author

• Workers' sport in Germany. Prometh, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-922009-60-3 .
• The history of the national Polish gymnastics organization “ Sokół ” in the German Empire 1884–1939 . Lit, Münster 1987, ISBN 3-88660-366-0 (= Münsteraner Schriften zur Körperkultur , Volume 4, also a dissertation at the Free University of Berlin 1986).
• Culture and Violence - From the Ruhr Area to Galicia. Add. with Rainer Kokenbrink. Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 2000, ISBN 3-923293-61-5 .
• Poles - Turks - Socialists, Sports and Social Movements in Germany. Lit, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5214-8 .
• Ravenna - Rimini - Urbino. Adriatic and hinterland. Drift around - stop by - find shelter. Oase, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-88922-056-8 .

As editor

• The Slavic Sokol movement. Contributions to the history of sport and nationalism in Europe. Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1991, ISBN 3-923293-32-1 .
• Sport moves Europe. Contributions to intercultural understanding. Add. with Petra Gieß-Stüber. Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2006, ISBN 3-8340-0165-1 .
• Sport - Integration - Europe. Widening Horizons in Intercultural Education. Add. with Petra Gieß-Stüber. Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2008, ISBN 978-3-8340-0466-6 .
• Sport - Ethnic - Nation, On the history and sociology of sport in nationality conflicts and with minorities. Add. with Marek Waic. Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2008, ISBN 978-3-8340-0336-2 .
• The ball is colorful. Football, migration and the diversity of identities in Germany. Add. with Gerd Dembowski. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt a. M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-86099-614-0 .
• Athletes in the “century of the camps”. Profiteers, resistors and victims. Add. with Lorenz Peiffer . The workshop, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89533-872-4 .
• From conflict to competition. German-Polish-Ukrainian football history. Add. with Lorenz Peiffer and Robert Traba. The workshop, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-7307-0083-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Diethelm Blecking in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diethelm Blecking, Dr. phil, blecking-kokenbrink.de
2. ↑ Dr. Diethelm Blecking, buero-kopernikus.org
3. ↑ ^{a b} Prof. Dr. Diethelm Blecking, Migration Expert Database, network-migration.org
4. ↑ Diethelm Blecking, sport.uni-freiburg.de ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Diethelm Blecking on the website of the German Academy for Football Culture , accessed on June 21, 2019