Writers on Boxing

Tag: bertolt brecht

  • #50: ‘Hook to the Chin’ by Lev Kreft

    #50: ‘Hook to the Chin’ by Lev Kreft

    ‘Hook to the Chin’ is an article originally published in Physical Culture and Sports Studies and Research, written by Lev Kreft, from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts – University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. (DOI: 10.2478/v10141-009-0005-1) This article focuses on how artists of the Avant-Garde during the 1920s and 30s held sport, and specifically boxing,…

  • #30: ‘Hook to the Chin’ by Bertolt Brecht

    #30: ‘Hook to the Chin’ by Bertolt Brecht

    ‘Hook to the Chin’ is a short story by Bertolt Brecht, written between 1924-1933. ‘Hook to the Chin’ is a story about four men attending an evening of boxing at the Berlin Sportpalast. In a bar before the event one of the men shares a tale about a bantamweight named Freddy ‘The Hook’ Meinke. I…