Millerntor Roar

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The Millerntor Roar! is a former fanzine of sympathizers of FC St. Pauli . From July 29, 1989 to April 18, 1993, a total of 28 issues of the publication with the subtitle “Fans, Fußball, Viertel” appeared at irregular intervals. After the last issue, the editorial team separated by mutual agreement and, from August 1993, produced the independent successor sheets Der Übersteiger and Unhaltbar . The publisher was the "Fan Initiative St. Pauli Hamburg (FISH) eV"

founding

The issue arose from a district initiative that on April 6, 1989 prevented the new construction of a “sports and event center based on the American model” or a multifunctional arena with the name “Sportdome” on the site of the Millerntor Stadium . The editorial team consisted of punks, FC St. Pauli fans and local residents. The editorial role model was English-language fanzines, mainly When Saturday Come , which has been published since 1986 . According to co-founder Sven Brux, editorial meetings initially took place “in private apartments and usually ended late in the evening in the pub” because there was no editorial room.

1000 copies of the 16-page first edition in A4 format were printed and sold for 50 pfennigs. The fanzine was named with the English term Roar ( rɔ: ʳ, ) after "the unmistakable background noise that the fans of the brown and white fabricated at home games".

meaning

According to the news magazine Der Spiegel , the Millerntor Roar! as the first German-language football fanzine to play a pioneering role. In the early 1990s, the fanzine gave the new left-wing fan scene a medium to articulate their messages, and it enabled “the FC St. Pauli fan scene to find out about upcoming decisions in club politics, district politics or the 'professional football system' as well as had the opportunity to discuss them or to organize countermeasures. ”According to the ethnographer Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber, the Millerntor took Roar! "Played a key role in the process of forming an alternative, politically committed fan scene".

The one from Millerntor Roar! printed stickers and patches »St. Pauli Fans gegen Rechts «, on which a fist smashes a swastika, was adapted by many football clubs in the following years. According to the author Christoph Nagel, the Millerntor Roar! the "mother of all fanzines".

reception

"Humorous, intelligent, political and with a large portion of self-irony, the fans reported on their everyday life as supporters, protested against soulless stadium construction and the destruction of standing room, described adventurous trips away and ridiculed all the attempts of the club to turn supporters into customers want."

- Christoph Biermann, Philipp Köster : "Almost everything over 50 years of the Bundesliga"

“In this context, the popularity of the Millerntor Roar! Published by St. Pauli supporters from 1989 to 1993 can serve as an initial spark for the spread of pluralistic, critical and ironic football interest that began in the early 1990s . be considered. The decisive demarcation from classic sports reporting in the mass media and especially from the journalistic processing of football in the local and national daily newspapers is constitutive for the self-image of the zines produced by football enthusiasts in their spare time and possibly semi-professional. "

- Jürgen Schwier, Oliver Fritsch : "Fan culture and media practice"

literature

  • Fanladen St. Pauli (Ed.): 15 years Fanladen St. Pauli. 20 years of politics in the stadium. 2nd edition, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-00-016101-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber: FC St. Pauli: On the ethnography of a club . Lit Verlag , Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-8258-7006-5 , pp. 224 .
  2. ↑ Martin Kraus: Carried out of the curve. In: The time . December 15, 2006, accessed November 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Millerntor Roar! . In: German National Library .
  4. ↑ Jan Feddersen : FC St. Pauli stops the sports dome . In: The daily newspaper . April 8, 2010, ISSN 0931-9085 .  
  5. ↑ a b Thomas Praßer: Too much cult in the Kiez? - The fans of FC St. Pauli and the commercialization of football. In: Federal Center for Political Education . June 18, 2014, accessed November 18, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Sebastian Wolff: The (hopeless?) Fight for FC St. Pauli. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . February 16, 2000, accessed November 18, 2015 .
  7. ↑ a b Tim Juergens, Jens Kirschneck: The children of the revolution . In: 11 friends . No. 74 , January 30, 2008, ISSN  1860-0255 ( 11freunde.de ).
  8. ↑ Kay Werner: Sven Brux - From punk rocker to safety officer of FC St. Pauli . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 92 , 2010, ISSN  1618-2103 ( ox-fanzine.de ).
  9. ↑ a b c d The big bang of the fanzine scene. In: Spiegel Online . March 26, 2010, accessed November 17, 2015 .
  10. ↑ a b c Christoph Nagel, Michael Pahl: FC St. Pauli - Everything in it: The club and its neighborhood . Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50202-2 , p. 160 .
  11. ↑ jwo: St. Pauli continues to sell stickers against the right. In: The world . October 26, 2006, accessed November 19, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Christoph Biermann, Philipp Köster : Almost everything over 50 years of the Bundesliga . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04500-0 , pp. 223 .
  13. ↑ Jürgen Schwier, Oliver Fritsch: Fan culture and media practice . In: football, fans and the internet . Schneider Verlag Hohengehren. 2003. (PDF; 3.64 kB) ( archive.org )