Marcus Colla
Biography
Publications
Marcus Colla is Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow in History at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the history of modern Germany and Eastern Europe.
Germany and Europe: “Ampel” time for reform
The Merkel model may no longer be fit for purpose in a rapidly evolving European Union.
Germany’s federal election: choose any colour you like
The looming headache of Germany’s coalition arrangements will play out again this September.
Ordinary Nazis
A growing understanding of interwar German society helps explain the popular embrace of National Socialist ideology.
Germany’s ordinary new world
Nobody knows the size of the personal vote Angela Merkel will take with her, or the consequences for German politics.
The vanishing hegemon
Trump’s America has a weakening hold on the global imagination. That doesn’t mean an end to the hyper-connected world.
A Thuringian eruption in Germany
A fiasco turns to farce, enlivening the far right and leaving succession plans for Angela Merkel in shreds.
What 1989 unleashed, and what it didn’t
The story of “post-Wall” Central Europe is not simply a straight line from liberalism’s triumph to its collapse.
Book review: Hitler’s Anglo-Saxon envy
A new biography argues the German dictator’s true obsession was to find a way to compete with the US and Great Britain.
Germany’s enigmatic East and the fate of Europe’s right-wing populists
The far-right gained at weekend elections, but only in a cycle of division that leaves politics increasingly fragmented.
