ABSTRACT
Over the last decade at different football clubs, an awareness of the importance of club history has increased, a view that goes beyond naming titles and defining only big sporting successes as important. The number of publications dealing critically with club history, especially during the period of the Third Reich, has grown. This article will analyze how Eintracht Frankfurt and its supporters and fans deal with club history and the inclusion and exclusion of Jewish club members during the Third Reich and in the context of antisemitism. We will therefore first introduce some fundamental facts about the history of the club and explain why Eintracht Frankfurt has been seen from at least the 1920s as a “Jewish Club,” and why player and fans have been called “Juddebube.” Following this, we will look at the activities of fans and at the Eintracht Frankfurt Museum as actors in the field of remembrance culture and will examine how they cooperate and are networked and how these activities shape the remembrance culture and identity of the club. Finally, we will demonstrate how the club history functions as an educational tool while fighting antisemitism by introducing the concept of the workshop named “Juddebube and Schlappekicker,” and explaining the educational theory and teaching-related principles of this workshop.
