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Marcus Colla

Associate Professor, Modern European Political History
Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
  • E-mailMarcus.Colla@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 22 57
  • Visitor Address
    Øysteins gate 3
    5007 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7805
    5020 Bergen
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). Whither Prussia? Berlin’s Humboldt Forum and the Afterlife of a Vanished State. Central European History. 2-17.
  • Show author(s) (2023). 1989: The Chronopolitics of Revolution. History and Theory. 45-65.
  • Show author(s) (2021). The Spectre of the Present: Time, Presentism and the Writing of Contemporary History. Contemporary European History. 124-135.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Rebuilding the Past: East German Preservationists as “Time Activists”. European Review of History. 484-506.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Memory, Heritage and the Demolition of the Potsdam Garnisonkirche, 1968. German History. 290-310.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The Politics of Time and State Identity in the German Democratic Republic. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 223-251.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Constructing the Prussia-Myth in East Germany, 1945-61. Journal of Contemporary History. 527-550.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Prussian Palimpsests: Historic Architecture and Urban Spaces in East Germany, 1945-1961. Central European History. 184-217.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2024). Review: Tobias Becker, ‘Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia’. TLS - The Times Literary Supplement.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Review: Alexey Tikhomirov, The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961 . German History. 138-140.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Review: Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane and Patrice G. Poutrus (eds), After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR . Central European History. 353-355.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Review: Franziska Klemstein, Denkmalpflege zwischen System und Gesellschaft. Vielfalt denkmalpflegerischer Prozesse in der DDR (1952–1975) . German History. 616-618.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Review: Florian Urban, Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland: Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity . Journal of Architecture. 468-471.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Review: Clare Copley, Nazi Buildings: Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-Unification Berlin. German Politics and Society. 109-112.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Review: Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War . German History. 651-652.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Review: Andrew Demshuk, Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany. German History. 141-143.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Review: Vladimir Kulic (ed.), Second World Postmodernisms: Architecture and Society under Late Socialism . Journal of Contemporary History. 938-940.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Review: Edward Saunders, Kaliningrad and Cultural Memory: Cold War and Post-Soviet Representations of a Resettled City . Urban History. 698-699.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Review: Stephan Ehrig, Marcel Thomas and David Zell (eds), The GDR Today: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to East German History, Memory and Culture. German Studies Review. 645-648.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Review: Roman Krakovsky, State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia: Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall . Cultural and social history. 535-536.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Review: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The Fourth Reich: The Spectre of Nazism from World War II to the Present, . TLS - The Times Literary Supplement.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Review: Cornelia Wilhelm (ed.), Migration, Memory, and Diversity: Germany from 1945 to the Present . Journal of Contemporary History. 225-227.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Review: Albert Earle Gurganus, Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life. German Politics and Society. 132-135.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Review: Paul Stangl, Risen from Ruins: The Cultural Politics of Rebuilding East Berlin (Stanford, 2018). Reviews in History.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Review: Andrew Demshuk, Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People's State in 1968 . H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Review: Simon Ward, Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012 . German Politics and Society. 96-99.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Review: Matthias Grünzig, Für Deutschtum und Vaterland. Die Potsdamer Garnisonkirche im 20. Jahrhundert . H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2024). Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan.
Academic monograph
  • Show author(s) (2022). Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic: Communists and Kings.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2024). What, When and Where was Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century?
  • Show author(s) (2024). A Monument to Friendship: Socialist Modernity and the Reconstruction of Tashkent, 1966-1975.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Reflections and Commentaries

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Powerlessness of the Powerful, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (29 January 2024)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Review of Joachim C. Häberlen, Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (6 December 2023)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Left Behind: Sahra Wagenknecht’s New Populism, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (30 October 2023)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Friedrich Merz and the Fall of the “Berlin Firewall”, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (1 August 2023)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. A New Solidarity? Olaf Scholz on the Future of Europe, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (2 September 2022)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Mikhail Gorbachev: The Last Revolutionary, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (31 August 2022)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Six Months of War in Ukraine: Europe’s Life and Fate, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (23 August 2022)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Turkey plays the Dance of the Go-Betweens in the Ukraine War, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (7 April, 2022)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Revenge of the Scholzomat, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (23 November, 2021)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Germany and Europe: “Ampel” Time for Reform, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (8 October 2021)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. German Elections: Any Colour You Like, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (16 August 2021)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Review of Robert Gellately, Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (13 April 2021)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Germany’s Ordinary New World, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (5 February 2021)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. What is History?, contribution to ‘Head to Head’ section, History Today (August 2020)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Vanishing Hegemon, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (20 April 2020)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. A Thuringian Eruption in Germany, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (11 March 2020)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. What 1989 Unleashed, and What it Didn't, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (4 November 2019)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Review of Brendan Simms, Hitler: Only the World Was Enough, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (11 September 2019)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Germany’s Enigmatic East and the Fate of European Populism, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (3 September 2019)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Burden of Friendship: Germany, Trump and NATO, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (5 July 2019)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Condemned to Become: The Future of the Past in Berlin, Royal Historical Society (8 March 2019)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. A Certain Boredom: Taking Stock of Democracy in 2019, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (4 March 2019)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Merkel Legacy – A Study in Shades, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (2 November 2018)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Germany – A Tale of Two Conservatisms, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (2 October 2018)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Ever-Widening Atlantic, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (15 June 2018)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The AfD and the Politics of German Identity, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (14 May 2018)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Germany gets a Government, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (5 March 2018)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Unending Nightmare for Germany’s SPD, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (30 January 2018)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Favourites of 2017: Pankaj Mishra’s “Age of Anger”, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (18 December 2017)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Breakdown in Berlin, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (27 November 2017)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. German Elections: The Collapse of Consensus, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (26 September 2017)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Turkey’s EU Accession: A Useful Fiction, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (12 September 2017)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Russian ‘Taboo’ and the German Election, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (22 August 2017)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The G20 Hamburg Riots and the German Election, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (17 July 2017)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Merkel-Trump Meeting: NATO, Jobs and Trade, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (20 March 2017)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Merkel's Faustian Bargain with Erdogan, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (6 February 2017)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Trump: Not the Ideal Poster-boy for Euro-Populists, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (28 November 2016)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. Trump, Germany and the New European Order, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (15 November 2016)

  • Colla, Marcus Timothy. The Future of Angela Merkel's Chancellorship, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (16 September 2016)

Fields of competence 
19. – 21. århundret
Contemporary History
East Central Europe
History of Historiography
History of political ideas
Modern European History
Modern German History
Politics of Identity
Socialism
Space and Time
Temporality
The Soviet Union
Urban History