12th DAGS* Symposium marking 100 years of the Museum für Leibesübungen (Museum of Physical Education) in Berlin from September 30 to October 2, 2025, in Berlin – (Registration deadline: July 31, 2025) – Forum for Sports History

With the founding of the Museum für Leibesübungen zu Berlin (MfL) 1925 in the Weimar Republic, the growing role of sport in society was given greater cultural and cross-sport significance for the first time.

Please note the registration deadline for the symposium on July 31, 2025!

The museum’s initiators were the first to recognize the cultural heritage value of material artifacts related to sports and sports art, and they recognized the importance of knowledge transfer and education about sports and physical exercise in general and in all their diversity.

The symposium will address the question of how far we have come in Germany in preserving our sporting heritage as a basis for sports history research and as a prerequisite for diverse and attractive educational work.

The focus is on the wide range, progress, and obstacles as well as the tasks and challenges facing our sports museums, archives, collections, and libraries today.

Strengthening the memory of sport – promoting the discourse on sports history

Martina Behrendt (Director of the Berlin Sports Museum, left) and Ulrich Roloff-Momin (Senator for Cultural Affairs, right) unveil the plaque commemorating the founding of the Museum für Leibesübungen (Museum of Physical Education) at the Ephraim Palace on June 24, 1994. – Photo: Forum for Sports History.

With the founding of the Museum für Leibesübungen zu Berlin (MfL) in the Weimar Republic, the growing role of sport in society was given greater cultural and cross-sport significance for the first time.

Venue:

Landessportbund Berlin
Coubertin Hall in the Manfred von Richthofen House
Jesse-Owens-Allee 2
14053 Berlin / S-Bahn station Olympiastadion, S3, S

Martina Behrendt, Gerd Steins, Dirk Ullmann; Forum for Sports History Berlin – Fördererverein für das Sportmuseum Berlin e.V., Olympiapark Berlin, Adlerplatz 1, 14053 Berlin,

Email: DagsSeminar-2025@t-online.de

Tel: 01522 857 24 52

More detailed information about the seminar and the speakers can be found in the flyer:

DAGS-2025 Seminar Flyer

* DAGS – German Working Group of Sports Museums, Sports Archives and Sports Collections e.V.

To mark the anniversary, Gerd Steins (President) of Forum for Sports History  –  published the BOOK: “Immer wieder Marathon! Horst Milde and the history of the 50-year Berlin Marathon. The volume contains 248 pages, 4 color throughout, in DIN A 4 format. 820 illustrations (photos, graphics, tables, etc.) are printed in it.

Berlin Marathon – 50 Jahre – Cover-BOOK –
https://news.germanroadraces.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Berlin-Marathon-50-Umschlag-Buch-steins-Inhalt-web.pdf