Felix Rietschel

About Felix Rietschel

Felix (Sorbian Feliks Ričel) is a doctoral student in Human Geography.

In his research, Feliks is concerned with examining the complex relationship between languages in the context of the multilingual landscape of organized football fandom.

Using the linguistic landscapes and soundscapes of organized football fandom, his work focuses on how collective symbols, discourses, and bodily performances are used, reproduced, and disseminated to shape and redefine collective identities. Language use is examined across various geographical categories to highlight how linguistic practices are embedded in specific locales while also being connected to broader networks and flows. 

Within the framework of a praxeological approach, the interplay between language, identity, representation and material practices in organized football fandom will be examined in the context of the football landscape in the Eastern German region of Lusatia, the Basque Country in Northeastern Spain and Brittany in Northwest France. His work emphasizes the lived experiences and affective dimensions of linguistic practices within the physical and digital realms of football fan culture