Performance Anxiety Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism

‘Hau has written an extremely astute, well-researched study about the use of sport to promote performance enhancement in Germany from 1890 to 1945.... Highly recommended.’

"[Performance Anxiety’s] thoughtful analysis of various discourses surrounding performance bears both broad and very specific conclusions that many scholars will find valuable."

"Sophisticated, original, and richly detailed, Hau’s work sheds new light on the histories of sports, performance, health, state coercion, gender, and modernity in Germany."

"This monograph examines the relation between sports and work as well as their meaning and exploitation in the German Empire in an impressive way...very successful and readable."

"Performance Anxiety will be of particular benefit to those interested in the histories of German business, labor, and the wartime economy, as well as those interested in the history of sport and of biopolitical regimes more generally."