Berlin: Bundesliga chiefs insist it will be business at German league stadiums across the country this weekend, although security will be tightened in the wake of Tuesday's bomb scare in Hanover.
Hamburg will host second-placed Dortmund match on Friday is the first of nine league matches with the top game in Gelsenkirchen on Saturday when Schalke host Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich.
"At the weekend, I will have no other feelings than usual when I enter the stadium," Bayern captain Philipp Lahm told local Munich paper TZ.
"You can't really do much to protect yourself, we know that, but if I thought like that, I would do nothing more with my life."
After the national team experienced last Friday's Paris terror attacks first hand, German football was again left shaken when Tuesday's Germany-Netherlands friendly in Hannover was called off due to a bomb threat.
"The (Hamburg-Dortmund) game will go ahead, without question. Any capitulation would cause out-breaks of happiness in Syria and other places," Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke told SID, an AFP subsidiary.
"We have to carry on with our lives, or the terrorists have won."
The Bundesliga has been shaken by recent events after Tuesday's international was called off just two hours before kick-off and the stadium was quickly evacuated.
It came less just four days after the German team spent Friday night in the Stade de France stadium as their international friendly took place during a night of terror attacks across Paris which claimed the lives of at least 129 people.
AFP
