Gymnastics, physical education, sport, and Christianity in Germany.

Autor/in	Krüger, Michael
Titel	Gymnastics, physical education, sport, and Christianity in Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Turnen, Leibeserziehung, Sport und Christentum in Deutschland.
Quelle	In: The international journal of the history of sport, 35 (2018) 1, S. 9-26 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-3367; 1743-9035
DOI	10.1080/09523367.2018.1496084
Schlagwörter	Körper (Biol); Geschichte (Histor); Kulturgeschichte; Ethik; Protestantismus; Religion; Körperkultur; Schulsport; Sport; Sportgeschichte; Sportsoziologie; Sportunterricht; Turnbewegung; Turnen; Forschungsstand; 19. Jahrhundert; Entwicklung; Konzept; Körperbild; Deutsches Reich; Deutschland
Abstract	Germany is both the country of origin of Protestantism and of Turnerism, which has led to a specific concept of national gymnastics. In 2017, the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's act of nailing his theses to the door of the Church of Wittenberg (on 31 October 1517) was celebrated. About 300 hundred years later, Ludwig Jahn, son of a Protestant minister, started to run a gymnastics ground at a park in Berlin, where young boys and students were educated in 'body and mind' according to Jahn's slogan (which later became the brand of the German Turner movement) frisch, fromm, fröhlich, frei ('fresh, pious, cheerful, free'). The notion of piety has been widely discussed by contemporary gymnasts, because even then, some regarded piety as old-fashioned and in fact incompatible with a free and enlightened world. The purpose of this paper is to consider the Christian impact on German gymnastics and sport since the beginning of a civil movement of body culture in clubs and societies in the nineteenth century. The paper is based on a wide range of academic research and other selected sources. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2021/2