realsoccer: Ultras #1
Confession to make: One of the company’s co-owner’s is a soccer nut. That’s me. Die hard fan (and member) of soccer’s finest Eintracht Braunschweig, supporting soccer dad of nine-year-old daughter playing the Philipp-Lahm-position at Berlin club Türkiyemspor’s E-girl-team.
Confession #2: I like to mingle with the ultras in the stadium. Ultras - for those few readers unaware - are committed fans rejecting soccer’s general move into commercialism and transforming fans into customers. Ultras can be easily spotted in each stadium forming a tightly knitted mass of chanting, jumping, flag-waving bodies, mostly male&young. And that’s 90 min. plus half-time-break plus before and after the game (especially ‘after’ as we’re often the last ones being allowed to leave the cage designated for us and monitored by uniformed authority). (more…)




From June 29 to July 4, 2010 the event series “Rencontres Internationales: New Cinema and Contemporary Art” will be showing at the “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” in Berlin.
