
The Bundesletter Podcast — German football culture
An interview podcast featuring the expert insight of observer of German football and its culture.
We'll hear from journalists, historians, analysts and fans of fußball on their experiences of following and learning the game.
This series is a companion to the Bundesletter, a weekly newsletter written, edited and published by Tom Ritchie, a journalist based in Berlin.
You can subscribe to the newsletter here: bundesletter.substack.com.
Episodes
5 episodes
#5 — Archie Rhind-Tutt on interviewing Bundesliga managers, football in Köln and German football fandom
Archie Rhind-Tutt will be well known to avid followers of German football, both for his pitch side reporting for ESPN's Bundesliga coverage, and his regular appearances on the Guardian Football Weekly. He joined us on the latest epi...
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Episode 5
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42:27

#4 — Kenny Legg on football in Dusseldorf, flea markets and rare football shirt finds
Kenny Legg is a different type of guest for us here at the Bundesletter Podcast. His day job involves supporting British businesses find partnerships and success in the German market, but he's as fervent a football fan as our other guests. ...
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Episode 4
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50:42

#3 — Uli Hesse on amateurism, the German National Team and Borussia Dortmund
Uli 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,...
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Episode 3
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56:38

#2 — Kit Holden on the diversity of fan culture in Germany
Fascinated by German football from a young age, Kit Holden has carved a unique career since he's moved to Berlin. A freelance journalist writing in both German and English for titles such as Der Tagesspiegel and The Athleti...
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Episode 2
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1:00:58

#1 — Jacob Sweetman on the history of football in Berlin
Jacob Sweetman is a writer, a drummer, and a keen observer of football in the Haupstadt. Now the lead for FC Union Berlin's english communications, Jacob has been writing about fußball and Berlin for almost two decades, since movin...
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Episode 1
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42:56
