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Pallonate in FacciaLe origini del tifo tedesco: Dialogo con Damiano Benzoni | Episodio 114Negli anni della riunificazione, del cambiamento dei costumi sociali e dello sviluppo del mercato dei diritti tv, il calcio in Germania subisce un grande cambiamento, che coinvolge anche il mondo dei tifosi. Dopo la crisi degli anni Ottanta, le presenze negli stadi aumentano notevolmente ed emerge un moderno fenomeno ultras locale, dando vita a un modello di relazioni tra tifosi, club e istituzioni unico al mondo.Ne parliamo con il giornalista Damiano Benzoni.LE FONTI USATE PER QUESTO EPISODIO:BENZONI Damiano, La città senza derby. Mappa emotiva d...
2025-12-1251 min
The Transfers PodcastTransfers Podcast EXTRA: Borussia Dortmund’s best and worst transfersAuthor and journalist Uli Hesse joins Ronan Murphy to break down Borussia Dortmund’s five best and worst signings. + The Scot who won the Champions League+ The unheard of Japanese legend+ The African Footballer of the Year who flopped+ The attacker who retired at 29The Transfers Podcast, powered by FootballTransfers.comJoin Duncan Castles and insiders from across the game for exclusive news and in-depth analysis of football's biggest stories.WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029VadK...
2025-09-2530 minThe Transfers PodcastTransfers Podcast EXTRA: Borussia Dortmund’s best and worst transfersAuthor and journalist Uli Hesse joins Ronan Murphy to break down Borussia Dortmund’s five best and worst signings. + The Scot who won the Champions League+ The unheard of Japanese legend+ The African Footballer of the Year who flopped+ The attacker who retired at 29The Transfers Podcast, powered by FootballTransfers.comJoin Duncan Castles and insiders from across the game for exclusive news and in-depth analysis of football's biggest stories.WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029VadK...
2025-09-2530 min
The Transfers PodcastTransfers Podcast EXTRA: Inside Jude Bellingham’s Dortmund decisionAuthor and journalist Uli Hesse joins Ronan Murphy to explain how Borussia Dortmund beat Europe’s elite to sign Jude Bellingham and turn him into a superstar+ Bellingham’s U15 breakthrough and worldwide teammates+ Sir Alex Ferguson gets snubbed+ Controversial comments after Der Klassiker+ The almost-perfect goodbye + Incoming: Jobe BellinghamAudience Survey http://bit.ly/thetransferspodcast-surveyThe Transfers Podcast, powered by FootballTransfers.comJoin Duncan Castles and insiders from across the game for exclusive news ...
2025-06-1125 minThe Transfers PodcastTransfers Podcast EXTRA: Inside Jude Bellingham’s Dortmund decisionAuthor and journalist Uli Hesse joins Ronan Murphy to explain how Borussia Dortmund beat Europe’s elite to sign Jude Bellingham and turn him into a superstar+ Bellingham’s U15 breakthrough and worldwide teammates+ Sir Alex Ferguson gets snubbed+ Controversial comments after Der Klassiker+ The almost-perfect goodbye + Incoming: Jobe BellinghamAudience Survey http://bit.ly/thetransferspodcast-surveyThe Transfers Podcast, powered by FootballTransfers.comJoin Duncan Castles and insiders from across the game for exclusive news ...
2025-06-1125 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 38: The Three Lives of the Kaiser - the Franz Beckenbauer Biography by Uli HesseIn Episode 38, we discuss the life – or rather The Three Lives – of the Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer by Uli Hesse.
Another of the faces on football’s Mount Rushmore, Beckenbauer is one of only three men to win the World Cup as a player and a manager and he is the only one of those three guys who also won three European Cups on the bounce with his club and who saw Grace Jones naked on a white horse in Studio 54.
Tune in to hear about a remarkable series of lives.
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2025-05-2157 min
The Bundesletter Podcast — German football culture#3 — Uli Hesse on amateurism, the German National Team and Borussia DortmundUli Hesse is an authority on German football. Writing in both his native tongue and English, he is a prolific author and journalist. Through his long career, he has contributed to titles such as FourFourTwo and When Saturday Comes, and he is now a staff writer at 11Freunde. His book Tor! is widely regarded as the defintive English language history of German football. FourFourTwo listed Tor! as the sixth best football book in history. In this conversation we cover: Uli's career (3:00)Writing in both English and German (4:30)The difference in writing books versus journalism (7:45)Th...
2024-11-2956 min
Pallonate in FacciaDa Sparwasser a Eigendorf: il calcio nella Germania Est | Episodio 87Dell'altra Germania - quella orientale e comunista - nel calcio si è sempre parlato poco, almeno fino all'improvviso exploit del 1974. La DDR costituisce un curioso mito del pallone, con due figure apparentemente antitetiche come "l'eroe" Jürgen Sparwasser e il "martire" Lutz Eigendorf. Ma anche in questo caso, sotto convinzioni e leggende, la verità è ben diversa.
LE FONTI USATE PER QUESTO EPISODIO:
BRAMBILLA Roberto, C'era una volta l’Est. Storie di calcio dalla Germania orientale, Edizioni InContropiede
HESSE Uli, Tor! The Story of German Football, Polaris Publishing
MCDOUGALL Alan, The Pe...
2024-11-0826 min
Pallonate in FacciaMondiali 1974: l'alba di una nuova Germania | Episodio 86I Mondiali del 1974 sono la sconfitta della rivoluzione (olandese) contro il conservatorismo (tedesco)? In verità la Germania Ovest è un paese che, calcisticamente e socialmente, si sta a sua volta rinnovando profondamente, rientrando infine nella comnità internazionale e tra le grandi potenze del pallone.
EDIT: Nell'episodio si parla della retrocessione dell'Arminia Bielefeld dopo lo scandalo del 1971. In realtà il club si era salvato e rimase nella prima divisione, retrocedendo la stagione seguente.
LE FONTI USATE PER QUESTO EPISODIO:
DIETSCHY Paul, Histoire du Football, Librairie Académique Perrin
HES...
2024-10-2526 min
HomeBhoysHomebhoys - Room 1 on 1 - BVBWelcome back to Room 1 on 1 from the Homebhoys, first of the week and its a doozie.
Celtic, hot of the heels of a 5-1 win over Slovan and 5-2 over Falkirk, are due to head to Germany in a weeks time to play Borussia Dortmund for the first time in 32 years, and to help us look at our hosts, we were delighted to speak to German Author and BVB fan, Uli Hesse.
Uli chats about the “weird season” that was last year and he comments on the manager, structure and players curren...
2024-09-221h 18HomeBhoysHomebhoys - Room 1 on 1 - BVBWelcome back to Room 1 on 1 from the Homebhoys, first of the week and its a doozie.
Celtic, hot of the heels of a 5-1 win over Slovan and 5-2 over Falkirk, are due to head to Germany in a weeks time to play Borussia Dortmund for the first time in 32 years, and to help us look at our hosts, we were delighted to speak to German Author and BVB fan, Uli Hesse.
Uli chats about the “weird season” that was last year and he comments on the manager, structure and players curren...
2024-09-221h 18
Gegenpressing: The Bundesliga PodcastRemembering the life and legacy of Franz Beckenbauer - with author Uli HesseLISTEN TO THE FULL SHOW HERE
On this week’s bonus show Manu and Stefan are delighted to be joined by Uli Hesse, the author of “The Three Lives of the Kaiser – A Biography of Franz Beckenbauer” and many, many other brilliant books on German football as they look back over the life and legacy of Bayern Munich and Germany legend Franz Beckenbauer.
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2024-01-1712 min
Talking FussballTalking Fussball Special - Uli Hesse joins the pod to talk about his new biography of Franz BeckenbauerHe's a football legend, a tabloid mainstay, a prodigious teller of tall tales and a symbol of postwar Germany itself. Franz Beckenbauer is the biggest name to ever emerge from the Bundesliga, and it's appropriate that Uli Hesse, the man who wrote the book on the league (Tor! - if you haven't read it, drop everything and start) should take on the task of writing a new biography of him. It's called The Three Lives of the Kaiser, and the author is on the pod this week to talk with Nik Wildhagen about it...
2023-06-0547 min
Chatting LitChris Lee: The DefiantI'm joined for this episode by Chris Lee, author of The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism, as well as the man behind the podcast and website Outside Write (https://outsidewrite.co.uk/) We talk about the relationship between football and politics, the growth of left-wing fanbases, his favourite football books and more!The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism by Chris LeeSeverance by Ling MaUltramarine by Mariette Navarro, translated by Cory Stockwell Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World by Chris Lee
2023-05-151h 17
Access Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, SportsThe Three Lives of the Kaiser by Uli HessePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Three Lives of the Kaiser Author: Uli Hesse Narrator: Michael Fenner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: Franz Beckenbauer is Germany's greatest-ever football player and one of the game's biggest icons of all time, a World Cup winner as player and manager. The Three Lives of The Kaiser is the first English-language account of a truly remarkable existence. Known everywhere as 'the Kaiser', Beckenbauer's compatriots even referred to him as 'the Shining Light'. Not anymore, though. Because what is often de...
2023-05-1103 min
Don’t Miss: This Eye-Opening Full Audiobook For Story Seekers.The Three Lives of the Kaiser by Uli HessePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/60044to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Three Lives of the Kaiser
Author: Uli Hesse
Narrator: Michael Fenner
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
Release date: 05-11-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Coaching
Publisher's Summary:
Franz Beckenbauer is Germany's greatest-ever football player and one of the game's biggest icons of all time, a World Cup winner as player and manager. The Three Lives of the Kaiser is the first English-language account of a truly remarkable existence. Known everywhere as 'the Kaiser', Beckenbauer's compatriots even referred to him as 'the Shining Light'. Not anymore...
2023-05-1110h 03Indulge In Into A Eye-Opening Full Audiobook At Home.The Three Lives of the Kaiser by Uli HessePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/27423to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Three Lives of the Kaiser
Author: Uli Hesse
Narrator: Michael Fenner
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
Release date: 05-11-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Europe
Publisher's Summary:
Franz Beckenbauer is Germany's greatest-ever football player and one of the game's biggest icons of all time, a World Cup winner as player and manager. The Three Lives of the Kaiser is the first English-language account of a truly remarkable existence. Known everywhere as 'the Kaiser', Beckenbauer's compatriots even referred to him as 'the Shining Light'. Not anymore...
2023-05-1110h 03
OB Wahl Darmstadt 2023 | Radio DarmstadtPodiumsdiskussion vom Ausländerbeirat und MSO (Migratenselbstorganisation)Podiumsdiskussion zur OB Wahl 2023 vom 24. Jan. 2023. An der Diskussion nehmen teil: Hanno Benz (SPD), Uli Franke (Die Linke), Gerburg Hesse-Hanbuch (FDP), Holger Klötzner (Volt), Michael Kolmer (Bündnis […]
2023-03-0300 min
The Schnitzel BoysInterview w/ ULI HESSE - World Cup Special!The first of two Schnitzel Boys special World Cup episodes. We interview German Soccer Writer Uli Hesse over Qatar, BVB, his history with the World Cup and more!
2022-11-161h 11The Schnitzel Boys54. WORLD CUP PREVIEW! Qatar Yey?The boys talk USA & Germany World Cup stuff! Plus we preview our two interviews we have scheduled. Special Guest Uli Hesse!
2022-11-151h 17
Behind The Lines90. George HamiltonThis week’s guest is legendary Irish football commentator, George Hamilton.George has written his memoirs, The Nation Holds Its Breath, and we discuss his early life growing up in Belfast and chart his path to RTE, via stints alongside a recognisable cast of character at BBC sport and a time presenting current affairs show Good Morning Ulster at the height of the Troubles.We also talk about the art of commentary: what makes a good one and what makes a bad one? And what is the difference between good radio commentary and good TV comme...
2021-11-0955 min
Voll Horsed#15 SO SCHAUT´S AUSGäste: Comedian Thorsten Bär, Uwe - Der Kreisligatrainer
Ahoi liebe Hörer - allenthalben hört man in den Sommergassen Ausrufe erquicklicher Freude, denn: Hier ist sie endlich wieder, #VOLLHORSED, die Rennsport-Show für Freunde der wettbewerbsfähigen Entenhaltung.
Offensichtlich hat die Abmahnung von Herr Pferdewetten in der letzten Woche seine Wirkung nicht verfehlt, denn Moderator und Glitzereinhorn Alexander Franke hat sich in dieser Woche mal pünktlich vor sein Mikrofon geschubbert. Und schon geht´s los…
Der Hot-Button hat zugeschlagen und in Leitung 8 ist: Comedian Thorsten Bär. RTL Comedy Grand Prix-Sieger, Hesse, Wahl...
2021-08-1852 min
The Official England Podcast#20 Jack Grealish’s hair tips, Sam Johnstone on Ed Sheeran visit and German football expert Uli Hesse chats ahead of last 16As the days tick down to Tuesday’s huge match against Germany, The Official England Podcast is bringing you your daily fix of all things England. Adam Smith is joined for an exclusive interview by goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, who talks about preparations for the match, meeting Ed Sheeran and his love of UNO. Jack Grealish was Josh Denzel’s guest on Lions’ Den connected by EE, and we have the best of that chat – including the secret of his infamous hairstyle – plus German football expert Uli Hesse talks about the reaction back in Germany to confirmation of Tuesday’...
2021-06-2636 min
Reasons Revisited189. IT’S COMING HOME: could fan ownership save football?Hello! We’re talking about football… but not just about football. Hot on the heels of the European Super League fiasco we’re exploring ideas to change where power lies in football - and asking what they mean for society more widely. Uli Hesse tells us about the ‘50+1’ rule in Germany. Thomas Hanna from The Democracy Collaborative and Vidhya Alakeson from Power to Change explain how to promote fan ownership in the UK. Then footballer turned academic Alex Culvin talks about how to put women’s football at the centre of the conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
2021-05-0356 min
Going the Match PodcastChampions League Quarter Finals SpecialChampions League Quarter Finals Special
We’ve been wanting to do something a little different with the Podcast and thought in light of the Champions League Quarter Final Draw we’d gather 16 different individual reviews from their respective clubs on the recent draw and how they’ve seen the campaign go so far for their club!
Credit and thanks below for our individuals covering their respective clubs:
Dortmund - Uli Hesse
Man City - Harry Siddall & Kurt Searle
PSG - Julien Laurens & Lee Davey
Bayern Munich - Floria...
2021-03-2947 min
The Halcyon PodcastEpisode 8 - Uli HesseAdam and Rob are joined from Berlin by the brilliant Uli Hesse, writer at 11 Freunde and author of - among other things - Tor! The Story of German football and Building the Yellow Wall.We discuss the nature of glorious defeat in Germany in relation to both the national team and Uli's club, Borussia Dortmund, as well as the relatively late-blooming Bundesliga and the remarkable fact that West Germany's 1954 World Cup win was achieved prior to professionalism in the country.Uli also takes us through the finer points of fan ownership, so often a standard-bearing...
2021-03-191h 05
The BlizzardGreatest Games: Borussia Dortmund 3 Fortuna Koln 1, 1986On this episode of Greatest Games, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by Uli Hesse as they remember the 1985-86 Bundesliga relegation/promotion playoff which could’ve seen Borussia Dortmund drop out of the top-flight.
Uli, Jonathan and Marcus discuss the troubles facing of German football in the 80s, the remarkable desperate situation Borussia Dortmund found themselves in and the chaotic scenes which helped ensure their survival.
About the panel:
Jonathan Wilson founded The Blizzard in 2011 and is editor of the magazine. He’s contributed to a number of publications including the Guar...
2021-01-1956 min
2020-10-0552 minGoing the Match PodcastUli Hesse - BVBUli Hesse is a match going Dortmund fan and former columnist for ESPN. He also wrote a book on Dortmund: Building the Yellow Wall, which was the winner of the football book of the year in 2019!
We talk all things Dortmund, his match day experiences, writing his award winning book, interviewing Jurgen Klopp, The Yellow Wall, Safe Standing, the connection between Liverpool and Dortmund and the time he watched Salford City with Giggs, Neville and Berbatov!
Ending, with his top 3 favourite match days.
A really exciting insight into being a Dortmund fan!
2020-10-0252 min
Sleep Eat Perform RepeatEpisode #79 with Uli Hesse - acclaimed football writer and author, editor and journalistToday we spoke to Uli Hesse - acclaimed football writer and author, editor and journalist; author of "Tor", "Bayern...", "Building the Yellow Wall..."
Uli talks about employment as a writer now with the editorial staff of 11 Freunde magazine, Germany's biggest football monthly versus being self-employed as a freelancer in the past.
This man won the 'football book of the year' by the Telegraph last year - aspiring and established writers can learn so much from Uli. We talk about books in a foreign language and the challenges of that for selling and publicity, considering English reader...
2020-08-0639 min
Kitted Out PodKitted Out Episode 15 - Borussia Dortmund 1994-95 KitsHello and welcome to Kitted Out Podcast, a podcast on football shirts.
Each episode, I will take an in-depth look at a different shirt from throughout the years to discuss everything about it. The design, the materials, the story.
For episode 15 we’re discussing a kit to kick start a successful chain of events. In 1991, Borussia Dortmund changed from Adidas to Nike as their kit supplier, a new supplier to a league dominated by German brands Adidas & Puma. The season of 1994-95, Dortmund were given a vibrant coloured kit and bagged their first Bundesliga title in it. What were the firs...
2020-07-021h 03
The Football Collective Podcast10 x 10 Christoph Wagner on Uli Hesse's groundbreaking history of German football 'Tor!'Football scholar Dr Christoph Wagner had been stuck in his western Paris apartment with a young family for a while before we chatted about Uli Hesse's landmark history of German football, 'Tor!' The chance to talk about football was such a relief to both of us that we let it run. Christoph, whose PhD looked at representations of the English and German national teams, details his great love of Hesse's wonderful book. It's a great chat that starts off looking at German football culture and which ultimately veers off into us addressing the subject of how embracing migrant communities...
2020-04-0724 min
The Rabona PodcastWorld Cup Special 3: The UnfinishedAs we approach the business end of the World Cup, Musa Okwonga and Michael Da Silva look at the remaining candidates in our latest podcast, ‘The Unfinished’. Belgium, Brazil and France all on the menu and Irish Times writer Ken Early speaks to us about England’s wild ride to the quarter finals. We also discuss Germany’s shock exit with German football writer Uli Hesse.Music: Dabrye - 'Bloop'Used with permission from Dabrye and Ghostly International. Available to purchase at https://dabrye.bandcamp.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
2018-07-0555 min
Gol BezanInterview: Uli HesseUli Hesse is the best-selling author of Tor!, Bayern Munich: Creating A Global Superclub and Alles BVB. Uli is also part of 11 Freunde, which is Germany's biggest football monthly magazine. Uli spoke to us about his past work with our Iranian players in the Bundesliga, Asian players in Germany, and his thoughts as to why Asian footballers prefer to play in Germany.
2017-10-1530 min
The Football Show on Off The BallDundalk win, everyone hates Leipzig, stale MadridNathan is in studio, with Oisin in Tallaght at the Dundalk match. Uli Hesse talks RB Leipzig, wit...
2016-09-3000 min
The BlizzardThe Conversion Of St Pauli"At St Pauli, they refrain from playing music or advertisements during this quarter of an hour so that the fans can sing their songs undisturbed. Songs such as “No one wins at the Millerntor,” meaning that even if the visiting team should happen to score more goals than the home side, FC St Pauli will never be defeated, can never be destroyed."
To mark our fiftieth episode, we offered up the chance for our listeners to choose an article. One of the most requested pieces, including the lucky winner James O'Donovan on Facebook, was Uli Hesse's 'The Conversion of St Paul...
2016-08-2545 min
The Tribune PodcastEpisode 3: Are Schalke the Bundesliga's sleeping giants?Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund may be the two biggest clubs in German football but is there a third Bundesliga in the waiting? This week the team are joined by author Uli Hesse to talk about Schalke's role in German football and why they aren't challenging for league titles.
2016-05-0954 minThe BlizzardNever the Twain"The GDR's national team - so notorious for choking when it counted - managed to qualify for a World Cup for the only time in their history. It was, of course, the World Cup in West Germany"
In Episode Six of the Blizzard Podcast we bring you Uli Hesse's 'Never the Twain' looking back at the meeting between East Germany and West Germany at the 1974 World Cup, and the consequences of a meeting between an East German player and the West German Minister of Finance, which was first published in Issue Thirteen in June 2014.
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2015-09-3030 min
Get Popular Titles Full Audiobooks in Classics, European LiteratureWeinlesen. Eine literarische Reise durch die Welt der Weine HörbuchHören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1570 Titel: Weinlesen. Eine literarische Reise durch die Welt der Weine Autor:: Hermann Hesse, Kurt Tucholsky Erzähler: Meike Schlüter, Stefan Filipiak, Francois Smesny Format: Unabridged Spieldauer: 1 hr and 16 mins Sprache: Deutsch Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-15-05 Herausgeber: O-Ton Produktion Kategorien: Classics, European Literature Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers: Autoren und Geschichten: Carsten Henn: Weinwissen für Angeber Kurt Tucholsky: Das Wirtshaus im Spessart Herrmann Hesse: Weinstudien Chandra Kurt: Pinot Bianco Anja Ulbig: Gleisweiler Hölle Stefan Filipiak: Rehrücken Wolfgang Burger: Wieder mal Michael Klonovsky/Uli Martin: Welcher...
2005-12-1503 min