Funktionen des Sports im modernen Staat und in der modernen Diktatur

'The article disapproves the theory of sport constituting an 'Eigenwelt' and points out the functions that gymnastics, exercise and sports fulfilled in modern society and especially under the conditions of a dictatorship. The argumentation follows Michel Foucault's theory of power and the subject. While in the 18th and 19th century the Prusso-German physical education can be regarded as a 'technol…