Gerd Dembowski

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Gerd Dembowski (* 1972 in Recklinghausen ) is a German social scientist , freelance author , speaker, singer , exhibition organizer and lecturer .

biography

As a working class child of ethnic repatriates from Giżycko , Poland , he studied social sciences and education at the Gerhard-Mercator-Universität-GH in Duisburg from 1993 to 1998 . It was there in 1995 that the sociologist Dieter Bott opened the way to sociological analyzes of football for the then club soccer player.

Since 2009 he has received a doctoral scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation and is writing his doctoral thesis with Gunter Gebauer and Christoph Wulf at the Free University of Berlin on "Discrimination and anti-discrimination in English and German football" . Since September 2012 Dembowski has been working for the competence group Fan Cultures and Sport-Related Social Work (KoFaS) at the Institute for Sport Science at Leibniz University Hannover . On January 18, 2013, the German international television broadcaster Deutsche Welle broadcast a portrait of him. Since 2013 he has been a member of the anti-discrimination working group at the DFB . He lives in Berlin. In October 2014, he started working as a Corporate Social Responsibility Program Manager at the world football association FIFA in Zurich . Dembowski is an appointed member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Services

First activities in fan scenes

Dembowski worked alongside Dieter Bott in the first Duisburg fan project, organized the first football fanzine festival with him in 1996 in the Salvador-Allende-Haus in Oer-Erkenschwick and published the MSV Duisburg- related fanzine "Blutgrätsche". In 1996 he became national spokesman for the Alliance of Active Football Fans (BAFF) for several years and played a key role in the organization of the nationwide fan congresses from 1997 to 1999. From 1998–2000 Dembowski was employed in the second Duisburg eV fan project, where he further developed Bott's approach to structural social work in terms of youth policy, which aims to empower young and adult football fans in a way that is oriented towards the world of life. This became the subject of his diploma thesis in 1998. In 1998 he was part of the socio-educational World Cup team at the Fan Projects Coordination Office (KOS) and co-edited the “AlleZmagne” fan magazine in France.

Touring exhibition Tatort Stadion

At the end of 1999 Dembowski moved to Berlin and curated the socio-historical touring exhibition and anti-discrimination campaign “Tatort Stadion” for BAFF and the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network . Racism and Discrimination in Football ” , which was shown over a hundred times by 2006. He is also involved in its successor "Tatort Stadion 2", which has been touring Germany and Austria since 2010.

After the opening in 2001, “Tatort Stadion” caused a scandal, as it not only located discrimination in fan rows, but also looked where, for example, B. the then DFB President Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder expressed himself discriminatory and acted. The DFB withdrew promised funds and called on its clubs , together with the German Football League (DFL) , not to support the exhibition. From a long-term perspective, the public debate and committee work that “Tatort Stadion” launched in 2001 has contributed significantly to opening up football in terms of anti-discrimination. In 2001 Dembowski was there when BAFF received the title “Ambassador for Tolerance” from the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance for “Tatort Stadion”. The traveling exhibition was also part of the FARE program, which in 2002 received the “Free Your Mind” award from the music TV station MTV. In 2003 this was followed by the Jean Kahn Prize of the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC).

Further exhibitions

In 2003 Dembowski co-curated the art exhibition “Kultort Stadion” in Basel for Littmann cultural projects in Gundeldinger Feld . “Kultort Stadion” could also be seen at the end of 2004 in the Zeche Zollverein in Essen and in 2008 in the Sala de la Obra Social Caja Madrid in Barcelona. In 2006 Dembowski also worked on the exhibition “Heimspiel. Location - Sport - Spectacle ”in the New Society for Fine Arts (NBGK) in Berlin, a critical agitprop commentary on the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In the same year he carried exhibits to the exhibition “You'll Never Walk Alone. Football and fan culture ”that Thomas Edlinger put together in the OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz. The touring exhibition “BallArbeit”, designed by Dembowski with the floodlight project group, has been touring since 2006. Scenes from Soccer and Migration ”through Germany. In 2006 she won the Herbert Wehner Medal of the ver.di union .

For Football Against Racism in Europe

From 2000 to 2007 Dembowski helped establish FARE as a recognized network - also at UEFA and FIFA. In 2001 he spoke at the FIFA Congress in Buenos Aires / Argentina and helped to get the later FIFA agenda against racism on the way. In the same year he was project manager of FARE's German action program when FARE received the “UEFA Charity Check”. At FARE he was also involved in the development of the first UEFA conferences “Unite Against Racism” at Chelsea FC in London in 2003 and at FC Barcelona in 2006, with which UEFA put the fight against racism, anti-Semitism, antigypsyism and homophobia on its agenda for a long time. He was also involved in the anti-discriminatory FARE program for the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal and the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Committee work and teaching assignments

In 2007 he sat for the project group Floodlight and FARE in the DFB Task Force AG against Discrimination, since 2008 as a social scientist in the AG Fan Dialog of the DFB and the DFL. As an appointed member of the German Academy for Football Culture, he was a member of the jury for the Academy Award “Learning Impulse” in 2007. In the same year his “Football vs. Country Music ”nominated for Football Book of the Year. After "social interventions with football fans" at the Catholic University of Social Sciences in Berlin in 2006, lectureships at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg , at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and again at the Catholic University of Social Sciences in Berlin followed .

Publications and reading tours

He not only accompanies his anti-discriminatory project work with book contributions and guest articles in daily newspapers and football magazines, he also works on post-structuralism and left-wing alternative topics, pop culture and subversion and is involved on site. As early as 1996 he had attended Helmut Postel for George Tabori's play “Mutters Courage” at the Oberhausen Theater . Dembowski was a columnist for the “Tageszeitung - TAZ” (“Die randigste Frandsportart”), for the St. Pauli fan magazine “Der Übersteiger” and the Austrian soccer magazine “ Ballesterer” (“Aus dem Fanexil”). Dembowski has been organizing his literary spoken word performances since 2000 and has performed a. a. with Wiglaf Droste , Fritz Tietz, Markus Flohr, Marvin Chlada , Thomas Ernst , Thomas Brussig , Ghost Mice, Paul Baribeau, Spoonboy, atomiclily and the Austrian artist group monochrom . In addition, there are countless lectures, workshops and panel participations in which he appears across Europe on discrimination , nationalisms , migration / integration , commercialization and repression in football. In 2001 he spoke z. B. also for FARE at the FIFA World Congress in Buenos Aires / Argentina, in 2006 at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Sao Paulo / Brazil and in 2008 at the University of Vienna .

From 2006 to 2010 he lived and worked not only in Berlin, but also frequently in Brighton in the south of England, in the village of Corrie on the Scottish island of Arran and on the road. It was during this time that he began his involvement in US “do it yourself” scenes revolving around punk , alternative country , riot folk and folk punk - especially for his friend Chris Clavin's Plan-It-X label. In 2008 he toured in the opening act and as a co-singer with children's instruments with the American folk punk band Ghost Mice through England, Poland and Germany. In 2009 he went on an extensive "Cold Water" reading tour with the punk band Imperial Can and the "Up the Puppets Theater" in the USA. In 2010 he performed at the Plan-It-X Festival in Bloomington, Indiana . He calls Dembowski's literary, satirical faction program Riot Reading, a mixture of reading, singing, toy noises and mania. Since October 2011 he has been publishing the four-monthly LitZine called Ground Scores .

Works

As editor
  • Foucault's labyrinth. An introduction. Add. with Marvin Chlada. Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2002, ISBN 3-932710-32-0 (and Commercial Press: 2nd edition. Beijing 2011.)
  • Crime scene stadium. Racism, Anti-Semitism and Sexism in Football. together with Jürgen Scheidle. Papyrossa, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89438-238-4 .
  • Ball possession is theft. Fans between culture and commerce. Add. with the Alliance of Active Football Fans. The workshop, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-430-8 .
  • Home game. Sport - location - spectacle. Add. with AG Heimspiel and New Society for Fine Arts. NGBK, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-938515-02-3 .
  • The ball is colorful: football, migration and the diversity of identities in Germany. Add. with Diethelm Blecking. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt a. M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-86099-614-0 .
Books
  • Ball & pear. To the criticism of the prevailing football culture. together with Dieter Bott, Marvin Chlada. VSA, Hamburg 1998.
  • The broken window. Hools and Nazi skins between violence, repression, consumer terror and social fire brigade. together with Andreas Buderus, Jürgen Scheidle. Pahl-Rugenstein successor, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-89144-285-8 .
  • The New Saints, Volumes I and II. Together with Marvin Chlada. Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2001, ISBN 3-932710-27-4 and ISBN 3-932710-35-5 .
  • In the zebra territory. The history of MSV Duisburg. together with Dirk Piesczek, Jörg Riederer. The workshop, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-307-7 .
  • Is it all pop? Capitalism and subversion. together with Marvin Chlada, Deniz Ünlü. Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2003, ISBN 3-932710-48-7 .
  • Soccer vs. Country music. Essays, Satires, and Antifolk. Papyrossa, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89438-369-5 .
  • A Tiny Taste of Freedom (feat. Atomic Lily). Secret Sailor Books, Bloomington, IN 2014, ISBN 978-0-9848829-8-4 .
Book contributions
  • "To put my writing in this lousy world". Football and fanzines. In: Uwe Husslein / Ralf Bornowski (eds.): Fandom Research. Reader and index on German-language fanzines. Ventil, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-930559-38-2 .
  • Interfering in youth politics against racism. In: Thomas Schneider, Michael Gabriel, Gerlinde Schrapel (eds.): KOSMOS 2: Controlled Offensive - Texts for the self-image of the fan projects. Edition KOS, Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach 1998, ISBN 3-89152-583-4 .
  • The Brighton case. together with Hardy Grüne. In: Arndt Aschenbeck: Football fans offside. Agon, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-130-4 .
  • About football as a man's thing. Plea for the conscious discovery of masculinity in the conspicuous, youthful fan scene. In: New Practice - Journal for Social Work, Social Pedagogy and Social Policy. 30th year, issue 2, Luchterhand, Neuwied 2000, ISSN  0342-9857 .
  • And the soccer shoe pinches every day. Selected standard situations. In: Torsten Fremer, Marcus S. Kleiner, Holger Oswald (Eds.): Quadrature - Culture Book: Sport Worlds . Issue 3, FKO, Duisburg / Cologne 2000, ISSN  1437-5591 .
  • Kicking is a man's job. Experience from the soccer province. In: Marvin Chlada, Jochen Zimmer (ed.): Critical theory in the province. Trikont, Duisburg 2001, ISBN 3-88974-105-3 .
  • Critical social science as folklore. Abysses of the Duisburg fan project work. In: Marvin Chlada, Jochen Zimmer (ed.): Critical theory in the province. Trikont, Duisburg 20o1, ISBN 3-88974-105-3 .
  • Crime scene stadium. An exhibition shows football as a stage for right-wing ideas. In: University of Applied Sciences (Hrsg.) Standpunkt: Sozial. Hamburg Forum for Social Work. Issue 1, Hamburg 2002, ISSN  0937-5791 .
  • Pile of pixels with boobs. The perfected time wash by Lara Croft. In: Marvin Chlada, Wolfgang Haible: Lara Croft, a myth is deconstructed. Trikont Duisburg, Duisburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-711-9 .
  • Swan goose. In: Elffriede: people drawings . Edition Monochrom, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-9500731-3-2 .
  • Of gorillas and clearing blocks. Fans have always protested. In: Alliance of active football fans (ed.): The 100 "most beautiful" harassment against football fans - repression and arbitrariness around the stadium. Nevertheless, Grafenau 2004, ISBN 3-931786-35-8 .
  • Freedom on the horizon - cross passes with Johnny Cash. In: Christoph Ruf (Ed.): The undead from the Millerntor. The suicide of FC St. Pauli and its lively fans. Papyrossa, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89438-310-0 .
  • Why Country? Thinking about decelerating rural exodus in the urban desert. In: Uwe Altrock, Simon Güntner et al. (Ed.): Landliebe - Landleben. Rural space in the mirror of social sciences and planning theory. Altrock, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937735-03-8 .
  • Between the floodlights and the sea. In: Fanladen St. Pauli (ed.): “You can't get rid of us that easily!” 15 years of the Fanladen St. Pauli - 20 years of fan politics in the stadium. Self-published, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-00-016101-5 .
  • Nationalism with a shot - now we're flattening the Latvians. together with Dieter Bott. In: Stefan Gillich (Ed.): Excluded & Deported. Street work as an opportunity. Triga, Gelnhausen 2005, ISBN 3-89774-411-2 .
  • Keywords about football, masculinity, German nationalism and domination. together with Dieter Bott. In: Georg Spitaler, Eva Kreisky (Ed.): Arena of masculinity. About the relationship between football and gender. Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 2006, ISBN 3-593-38021-8 .
  • Racism: magnifying glass football. In: Wilhelm Heitmeyer (ed.): German conditions. Episode 5, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12484-0 .
  • On the role of football fans in the fight against racism and discrimination. In: Michaela Glaser, Gabi Elverich (ed.): Right-wing extremism, xenophobia and racism in football. Prevention experiences and perspectives. German Youth Institute, Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-935701-24-2 . (online) (PDF; 9.9 MB).
  • Tatort Stadion - New ways of political education. In: Practice Political Education. Materials - analyzes - discussions. 13th year, 3rd year, issue 3, Juventa, Weinheim 2009, ISSN  1433-4755 .
  • How soft is German nationalism? In: AG Nationalismuskritik (ed.): Insanity of normality. Aspects of the re-articulation of German nationalism . 2nd Edition. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89691-779-9 .
  • Interview with Gerd Dembowski on politics and football. In: AK Wantok (ed.): Perspectives of autonomous politics. Unrast, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89771-500-4 .
  • They just want to play. Football fan scenes and football clubs as docking points for neo-Nazi influence in rural areas. Add. with Martin Endemann. In: Friedrich Burschel (Ed.): Stadt - Land - Rechts. Brown everyday life in the German province. Dietz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-320-02201-3 . (online) (PDF; 858 kB).
  • Red Rice in Middlesborough: The Axis of Evil as a Four-Man-Defense Line. In: Kuhn, Gabriel (ed.): Soccer vs. The State. Tackling Football and Radical Politics . PM Press, Oakland, CA 2011, ISBN 978-1-60486-053-5 .
  • The Most Important Referee in the World. Remembering John Blankenstein. In: Kuhn, Gabriel (ed.): Soccer vs. The State. Tackling Football and Radical Politics . PM Press, Oakland, CA 2011, ISBN 978-1-60486-053-5
  • Gilles Deleuze as prompter. The Müller machine docks. In: Marvin Chlada (ed.): The Universe of Gilles Deleuze. An introduction. 2nd Edition. Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86569-022-7 .
  • "I have nothing against gays, but ...". Keywords for the modernization of hegemonic masculinity in German football. In: Faninitiative Innsbruck (ed.): Football without prejudice. Accompanying volume to the exhibition Tatort Stadion, self-published, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02472-4 .
  • A necessary invention of the self. Notes on the identity formation of ultras as individualized communities. In: Martin Thein / Jannis Linkelmann (ed.): Ultras offside? Portrait of a daring youth culture. The workshop, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-389533-847-2 .
  • Invent a mission statement. To create an identity at Ultras as football fan groups between culture and commerce. In: Klaus-Jürgen Bruder / Christoph Bialluch / Benjamin Lemke (eds.): Social psychology of capitalism - today. On the topicality of Peter Brückner. Psychosocial, Giessen 2013. ISBN 978-3-8379-2226-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kofas-ggmbh.de/
  2. ↑ https://www.sportwiss.uni-hannover.de/sportwissenschaft.html?&no_cache=1
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hannover.de
  4. ↑ Talking Germany: Gerd Dembowski, Football Fan Researcher
  5. ↑ Gerd Dembowski: I'm gone. October 3, 2014, accessed October 8, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Erik Eggers: Fan researcher moves to FIFA. Deutschlandradio, October 6, 2014, accessed on October 8, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Gerd Dembowski. German Academy for Football Culture, accessed on August 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dembowski, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen