. Matthias Marschik (born 1957) is an Austrian

cultural studies Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...

scholar, media expert and sport historian.

Life

Marschik was born in Vienna. After his

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at the Jesuit secondary school ''Albertus-Magnus-Schule'' in 1975, Marschik studied law, psychology and art history at the University of Vienna until 1983. After his civil service at the psycho-biological research station of the Psychiatric University Hospital

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he became a staff member of the Verein für Konsumenteninformation in 1986 while continuing to study psychology. From 1987 on, he worked as a freelancer for newspapers and magazines in Austria. In 1990, Marschik obtained his doctorate on the topic ''Literatur gegen Therapie''. The following year he was co-founder of the social science research institute ''Institut für biologische Sozialwissenschaft'' and from 1991 to 1996, he was a research assistant at the Vienna Institut für Schreibpädagogik und Schreibtherapie''. In 2003, he completed his

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at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Linz; his subject was

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with special emphasis on

. He holds further visiting professorships and teaching positions at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg and Zurich for among others, psychology, media studies, artistic and industrial design and contemporary history. In his publications he deals with Alltagsgeschichte, especially in the history of sport. Marschik's special merit is that he introduced ''Cultural Studies'' into the history of sport.Matthias Marschik: Plädoyer für eine kulturwissenschaftliche Sportgeschichte.

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(ed.): ''Transformationen: Kontinuitäten und Veränderungen in der Sportgeschichte'', Hoya: NISH 2002, .

Awards

* 1992: Award of the ''Theodor Körner-Preises'' for science and art * 1997: Promotional Prize of the City of Vienna for Science * 2002: Fellow of the European Committee for Sports History * 2007: Award of the '"Herbert-Steiner-Preises"

Publications

* ''Vom Herrenspiel zum Männersport. Die ersten Jahre des Wiener Fußballs''. Vienna 1997. . * with Roman Horak: ''Das Stadion – Facetten des Fussballkonsums in Österreich. Eine empirische Untersuchung''. Vienna 1997. . * with Doris Sottopietra: ''Erbfeinde und Haßlieben. Konzept und Realität Mitteleuropas im Sport''. Münster/Hamburg/London 2000. . * ''Heldenbilder. Kulturgeschichte der österreichischen Aviatik''. Münster/Hamburg/London 2000. . * ''Frauenfussball und Maskulinität. Geschichte – Gegenwart – Perspektiven''. Münster/Hamburg/London 2003. . * ''Massen, Mentalitäten, Männlichkeit : Fußballkulturen in Wien''. 2005. . * with Andreas Tröscher und Edgar Schütz: ''Das große Buch der österreichischen Fußballstadien''. Göttingen 2007. . * ''Cultural studies und Nationalsozialismus. Aspekte eines Geschichtsbildes''. Vienna/Berlin 2011. . * with Georg Spitaler: ''Leo Schidrowitz. Autor und Verleger, Sexualforscher und Sportfunktionär''. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2015. . * with Rolf Sachsse: ''Rauchende Sportler. Ein obszönes Sujet''. Verlagshaus Hernals, Vienna 2017. . * Depicting Hakoah. Images of a Zionist Sports Club in Interwar Vienna. ''In Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 2.'' doi:10.12759/hsr.43.2018.2.129-147. * with Christian Koller (ed.): ''Die ungarische Räterepublik 1919. Innenansichten – Außenperspektiven – Folgewirkungen''. Vienna: Promedia, 2018

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marschik, Matthias Cultural academics Mass media scholars Sports historians Academic staff of Johannes Kepler University Linz Academic staff of the University of Vienna 1957 births Living people