Heather L. Dichter is associate professor of sport management and sport history in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. She is the author of Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO and editor of Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football Since 1914.  Molly Wilkinson Johnson is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where she teaches German and European history. She is the author of Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany.

“Berlin Sports is a fascinating and multi-faceted collection of essays on Germany’s capital of sport from the Empire to the present. Dichter, Wilkinson, and their expert contributors convincingly show that Berlin’s sporting history cannot be reduced to the Nazi Olympics of 1936. Students and aficionados of modern sport and culture will find this engaging collection essential.” - Kay Schiller, co-author of The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany“By telling the story of Victorian-era equestrians and Cold War skateboarders, Turkish footballers and Jewish Olympians, this vividly written, empirically rich, and theoretically sophisticated volume shows us that there was more to sport in Berlin than the 1936 Olympic Games, offering dynamic new perspectives on the character and contradictions of German modernity.” - Eric Kurlander, author of Modern Germany: A Global History

Heather L. Dichter is associate professor of sport management and sport history in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. She is the author of Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO and editor of Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football Since 1914.  Molly Wilkinson Johnson is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where she teaches German and European history. She is the author of Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany.

“Berlin Sports is a fascinating and multi-faceted collection of essays on Germany’s capital of sport from the Empire to the present. Dichter, Wilkinson, and their expert contributors convincingly show that Berlin’s sporting history cannot be reduced to the Nazi Olympics of 1936. Students and aficionados of modern sport and culture will find this engaging collection essential.” - Kay Schiller, co-author of The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany“By telling the story of Victorian-era equestrians and Cold War skateboarders, Turkish footballers and Jewish Olympians, this vividly written, empirically rich, and theoretically sophisticated volume shows us that there was more to sport in Berlin than the 1936 Olympic Games, offering dynamic new perspectives on the character and contradictions of German modernity.” - Eric Kurlander, author of Modern Germany: A Global History

Heather L. Dichter is associate professor of sport management and sport history in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. She is the author of Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO and editor of Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football Since 1914.  Molly Wilkinson Johnson is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where she teaches German and European history. She is the author of Training Socialist Citizens: Sports and the State in East Germany.

“Berlin Sports is a fascinating and multi-faceted collection of essays on Germany’s capital of sport from the Empire to the present. Dichter, Wilkinson, and their expert contributors convincingly show that Berlin’s sporting history cannot be reduced to the Nazi Olympics of 1936. Students and aficionados of modern sport and culture will find this engaging collection essential.” - Kay Schiller, co-author of The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany“By telling the story of Victorian-era equestrians and Cold War skateboarders, Turkish footballers and Jewish Olympians, this vividly written, empirically rich, and theoretically sophisticated volume shows us that there was more to sport in Berlin than the 1936 Olympic Games, offering dynamic new perspectives on the character and contradictions of German modernity.” - Eric Kurlander, author of Modern Germany: A Global History