Alex Holznienkemper | Sport, Media, and Culture Minor | University of Notre Dame
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Alex Holznienkemper

Director of Undergraduate Studies (German)

Director of Undergraduate Studies (German)
Email
aholznie@nd.edu

Biography

Alex Holznienkemper is Director of Undergraduate Studies for German in the Department of German, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching focus on the ethics and aesthetics of sports, social and critical theory, Heinrich von Kleist, and the history of incarceration. German and European soccer culture has been a central part of his teaching at Notre Dame, in courses ranging from advanced German language to a general education class on global soccer culture. He has published on fan culture and identity in German soccer in Colloquia Germanica and in the edited volume Football Nation (Berghahn, 2022), and he is now writing on Hannah Arendt’s theory of action in relation to sports and religion.