Engagement at Vereinsfußball: Nutzt die Anziehungskraft!

A glimpse into the political fan culture at FC Carl Zeiss Jena. The club is active in the right-wing youth program. A commentary.

Fans of FC Carl Zeiss Jena with correct message in Fanblock: no hassle with fast players Photo: Karina Hessland/imago

“Unsurprisingly against ihre Repressions! Free Lina! Wir sind all §129!” is written on a Spruchband at a Heimspiel of FC Carl Zeiss Jena. The Horda Azzuro, Jena’s largest fan group, in solidarity with the autumn Lina E. Die Leipziger in the summer of 2023 after paragraph 129 Strafgesetzbuch weighen einem beibeit einem behringer Vereinigung van een haftstrafe verurteilt – begleitet wurde der Prozess von Demonstrationen und Unverständnis in der linken Szene .

Look at the football of the football club for the political Botschaften – in Jena, but also in the whole of Germany. There is a rainbow bond and the Wolfsgruß. This sports police never got off the ground: an infringement of the fight is quickly half of the German sports and political politics.

In both cases, it is the case that the association is one of the most neutral political parties, how the fans can exercise a political political activity, which is sober in politics, a position that can be played in the long term. It is a man who is one of the rival Erfurt, the verhassten DFB or NOFV, a Pyrotechnik-verbot, but also a larger theme. Um Rassismus, Rechtsextremismus and Kapitalismus.

Besides the fact that the stadium is involved in fans’ politics: So the organization of the Verein Interperspective Veranstaltungen, the über Xenophobia, Sexismus and Homophobia can be completed. The association organizes Fußballturniere, coupled with political Vorträgen über integrative Aspekt des Sports.

Fan project for young people

One of the many examples of fan projects Jena: “Football is the foundation, why young people come to us”, explains Project Manager Matthias Stein in conversation. There is a fan project that lasts for years and deals with the interests of fans living in the city of Jena. In the small house of the stadium it meets young fans, one of the many players who play to the world, Tischkicker after the guilt of the game or when he goes to Reden brauchen. Darin orders the mainstream of fan projects: for young people as they are. When the time comes, active youth players: in Zusammenarbeit mit Lernort Stadion, a Verein, of political images in the football stadium, find workshops on themes with climbing protection and social justice, about a drive to Buchenwald and Vorträge gehören zum Programm.

The fans play a bigger role in the political development of the country – beyond the youth. The reign over the fan projects or the consuming insights of the sector, which are functional, political and sports, are active.

Dario Holz (22) If you live in Jena, you can enjoy your stay and enjoy your (Vita-)Cola-Sucht nach.