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@PHDTHESIS{Fusenig:62058,
author = {Fusenig, Annette},
othercontributors = {Heinen, Armin},
title = {{W}ie man ein '{W}eltfest des {P}ferdesports' erfindet -
{D}as {A}achener {S}pring-, {R}eit- und {F}ahrturnier 1924
bis 1939},
address = {Aachen},
publisher = {Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University},
reportid = {RWTH-CONV-123656},
pages = {323 S.},
year = {2004},
note = {Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2004},
abstract = {The ‘Concours Hippique International Officiel’ (CHIO)
organised by the Aachen Laurensberger Rennverein (A.L.R.V.)
and self-appointed ‘world festival of equestrian sport’
constitutes until today the largest riding and driving event
of the world. The key to a story of success has been the
ability of the organisers to adapt and prevail over all
economic and political turmoils and to maintain its
character of a cultured public festival ever since its
beginnings. A decisive factor for this was the city
council’s and the organisers’ joint ambition to increase
symbolic capital and prestige for Aachen. The event
qualified from the start to launch independent symbols with
a unified definition and new, unrelated connotations. During
both political systems - the Weimarer Republic and the
‘Third Reich’ - the city council as well as the
association (A.L.R.V.) proved to be capable of using the
symbolic capital of the tournament for their own concerns,
to foster them and to obtain financial benefits from them.
An important aspect of this achievement was, that for the
Aachen riding and driving event the symbols and the personal
world of the aristocracy, the middle classes and the working
classes all existed and interacted at the same time to
create a community festival of which the bourgeois elites of
Aachen took guidance. In order to give a clear survey of the
situation, the dissertation is structured into four
chapters: Equestrian sport before 1924, the Weimarer
Republic, the ‘Third Reich’ and post World War 2. This
dissertation focuses on the years 1924, the beginning of the
Aachen equestrian event in its present form, to the year
1939, when the last tournament before the war took place.
The first part of the text examines the origins of
equestrian sport in Aachen pre 1924 with an emphasis on its
origins in the 19th century as well as on the political and
socio-economic structures of the region between 1918 and
1924. Both of the two main chapters commence with an
investigation on the journalism on horse riding and the
Aachen tournament, before describing the course of the
events themselves. In addition, the history of the A.L.R.V.
and the support conferred by the city for this sports
festival have been analysed. Furthermore, the sequence of
events within the tournament and the way certain elements of
it interact and interconnect are depicted: the preparation
and progression of the tournament, the festive speeches, the
spectators’ responses to the winners of the competitions
and the connotations and effects of the symbols and
pictures. The thesis also explains the meaning and influence
of certain groups, such as politicians, civil servants of
the city of Aachen, prominent officials and outstanding
horsemen. The Aachen horse riding championship is in a
cursory manner used as a model to identify changes in the
mentality of the middle classes, their bourgeois
self-confidence, values and goals in the 20th century. The
tournament can be seen as a micro historical model or a
burning glass for the political and social self-esteem of
the regional citizens in the first half of the 20th century.
Its success stems from its character as a ‘public
festival’ and the high degree of self-identification of
the citizens of Aachen with their annual event. Throughout
the following decades the riding and driving event took its
position as the ‘world festival for equestrian sport’ in
the communal recollection of the city. To the present day,
the celebrations of carneval, the presentation of the
Karlspreis and the ‘calvalcade’ form the established
highlights of the cultural life of Aachen.},
cin = {700000},
ddc = {796},
cid = {$I:(DE-82)700000_20140620$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-opus-10008},
url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/62058},
}
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